Lead Security Engineer (AWS)

Take on a crucial role where you’ll be a key part of a high-performing team delivering secure software solutions. Make a real impact as you help shape the future of software security at one of the world’s largest and most influential companies.

As a Lead Security Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Cybersecurity & Technology Controls group, you are an integral part of team that works to deliver software solutions that satisfy pre-defined functional and user requirements with the added dimension of preventing misuse, circumvention, and malicious behavior. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for carrying out critical technology solutions with tamper-proof, audit defensible methods across multiple technical areas within various business functions. 

Job responsibilities

• Executes creative security solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with the ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions and break down technical problems
• Develops secure and high-quality production code and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Minimizes security vulnerabilities by following industry insights and governmental regulations to continuously evolve security protocols, including creating processes to determine the effectiveness of current controls
• Works with stakeholders and business leaders to understand security needs and recommend business modifications during periods of vulnerability
• Conducts discovery, vulnerability, penetration testing, and threat scenarios on multiple organizational assets to identify and assess if vulnerabilities are present, and executes threat modeling for multiple applications including external applications interacting with the internal JPMorgan Chase network
• Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and proficient advanced experience
• Strong experience in developing and architecting cloud-native applications with AWS services.
• Proficiency and hands-on experience in AWS services, including Lambda, EKS, SQS, DynamoDB, etc
• Practical exposure with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions such as Terraform and CloudFormation
• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle, preferably using python.
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• Experience with threat modeling, discovery, vulnerability, and penetration testing
• Ability to conceptualize, design, validate and implement creative solutions to complex technical issues
• Demonstrated ability to quickly and proficiently understand new architectures and designs
• Ability to analyze system metrics and other types of data to draw insightful conclusions
• Forward thinker with the ability to make current decisions that prevent future tech debt or inhabiting long-term development
• Effective communicator on technical design ideas to stakeholders to get buy-in

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Savvy Cybersecurity knowledge
• Experience with Azure, GCP or other Public Cloud environments is a plus.
• Cloud Certifications including AWS Developer Associate, AWS Solutions Architect Associate

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we’re setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.

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