The Senior Lead Security Engineer will develop and implement security solutions, drive cloud security automation, and collaborate on risk assessments.
Job Description
Join a team where you can play a crucial role in shaping the future of a world-renowned company and make a direct and meaningful impact in a space designed for top performers.
As a Senior Lead Security Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Cybersecurity Technology and Controls organization, you are an integral part of an agile 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. Drive significant business impact through your capabilities and contributions and apply deep technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to tackle a diverse array of cybersecurity challenges that span multiple technology domains.
Job responsibilities
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
About Us
JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world's most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.
We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.
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.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans
About the Team
The Cybersecurity & Technology Controls group at JPMorganChase aligns the firm's cybersecurity, access management, controls and resiliency teams. The group proactively and strategically partners with all lines of business and functions to enable them to design, adopt and integrate appropriate controls; deliver processes and solutions efficiently and consistently; and drive automation of controls. The group's number one priority is to enable the business by keeping the firm safe, stable and resilient.
High Risk Roles (HRR) are sensitive roles within the technology organization that require high assurance of the integrity of staff by virtue of 1) sensitive cybersecurity and technology functions they perform within systems or 2) information they receive regarding sensitive cybersecurity or technology matters. Users in these roles are subject to enhanced pre-hire screening which includes both criminal and credit background checks (as allowed by law). The enhanced screening will need to be successfully completed prior to commencing employment or assignment.
Join a team where you can play a crucial role in shaping the future of a world-renowned company and make a direct and meaningful impact in a space designed for top performers.
As a Senior Lead Security Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Cybersecurity Technology and Controls organization, you are an integral part of an agile 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. Drive significant business impact through your capabilities and contributions and apply deep technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to tackle a diverse array of cybersecurity challenges that span multiple technology domains.
Job responsibilities
- Facilitates security requirements clarification for multiple networks to enable multi-level security to satisfy organizational needs
- Works at code-level using Python and drives the maturity of the Cybersecurity software development lifecycle with advanced understanding of line of business technology drivers
- Performs deployment, administration, management, configuration, testing, document, operations and integration tasks related to the Cloud Network Security Platforms and champion a DevOps security model to ensure security is automated and elastic across all platforms
- Leads and develops new Cloud Security Implementations
- Designs and develops strategies to provide end-to-end automation, architecture design, performance and monitoring, best practices, proof of concepts, product design, and transition to operations
- Ensures quality control of engineering deliverables and ensures firm policies are compliant with strict security standards
- Drives decision making by analyzing complex data systems, ensures all engineering activities are in conformance with firm policies & objectives
- Leverages DevOps tools to build, harden, maintain and develops a comprehensive Cloud-based security orchestration platform for network security and infrastructure as code
- Develops automated security and compliance capabilities in support of DevOps processes in a large-scale Cloud computing environment
- Collaborates with technologists, stakeholders, and senior business leaders to recommend business modifications during periods of vulnerability
- Be responsible for triaging based on risk assessments of various threats and managing resources to cover impact of disruptive events
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on Security Engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
- Skilled in planning, designing, and implementing enterprise-level security solutions
- Advanced hands-on coding experience in Python/Go and Terraform
- Expertise with AWS Infrastructure such as networking, EC2, Lambdas, server-less solutions, VPC, routes53, autoscaling, Transit Gateway, API Gateway, Step Functions, secrets manager and storage services
- Proficient in core concepts for Networking, IaaC, Public Cloud architecture and Cloud Security
- Expertise developing and designing complex cloud architectures, deploying of scalable solutions, creating and handling CI/CD pipelines, application resiliency, security design and implementation, and triaging issues in Agile Software Development Lifecycle methodology
- Extensive experience with threat modeling, discovery, vulnerability, and penetration testing
- Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
- Hands-on cloud native experience
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Certifications in AWS, Networking, or Security
About Us
JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world's most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.
We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.
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.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans
About the Team
The Cybersecurity & Technology Controls group at JPMorganChase aligns the firm's cybersecurity, access management, controls and resiliency teams. The group proactively and strategically partners with all lines of business and functions to enable them to design, adopt and integrate appropriate controls; deliver processes and solutions efficiently and consistently; and drive automation of controls. The group's number one priority is to enable the business by keeping the firm safe, stable and resilient.
High Risk Roles (HRR) are sensitive roles within the technology organization that require high assurance of the integrity of staff by virtue of 1) sensitive cybersecurity and technology functions they perform within systems or 2) information they receive regarding sensitive cybersecurity or technology matters. Users in these roles are subject to enhanced pre-hire screening which includes both criminal and credit background checks (as allowed by law). The enhanced screening will need to be successfully completed prior to commencing employment or assignment.
Top Skills
Aws Infrastructure
Cloud Security
Devops Tools
Go
Python
Terraform
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