As a Lead Security Engineer, you'll design and implement secure software solutions on AWS, automate deployments, and mentor junior engineers while addressing complex technical challenges.
Job Description
Take on a crucial role where you'll be a key part of a high-performing team delivering secure software solutions.
As a Lead Security Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Cybersecurity & Technology Controls, you will be an integral part of a team focused on creating software solutions that adhere to functional and user specifications while implementing safeguards against misuse, circumvention, and malicious activities. In your role as a core technical contributor, you will be tasked with delivering essential technology solutions using tamper-proof and audit-defensible methods across diverse technical domains within various business functions.
Job responsibilities
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
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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
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.
Take on a crucial role where you'll be a key part of a high-performing team delivering secure software solutions.
As a Lead Security Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Cybersecurity & Technology Controls, you will be an integral part of a team focused on creating software solutions that adhere to functional and user specifications while implementing safeguards against misuse, circumvention, and malicious activities. In your role as a core technical contributor, you will be tasked with delivering essential technology solutions using tamper-proof and audit-defensible methods across diverse technical domains within various business functions.
Job responsibilities
- Ability to design, architect, and implement applications on public cloud platforms, specifically AWS.
- Design, build, and maintain scalable and secure AWS infrastructure using best practices.
- Design, develop, and troubleshoot innovative software solutions by thinking beyond conventional approaches to solve complex technical problems.
- Proficiency in using Terraform for automating infrastructure deployment and management, ensuring scalable and reliable cloud environment.
- Architect and implement solutions leveraging AWS services such as EC2, ECS, Lambda, Load Balancers, API Gateway, S3, EBS, SQS, SNS, and other storage and messaging services.
- Proactively anticipate, diagnose, and resolve technical challenges to keep systems running smoothly
- Leverage AWS services for scalable deployments
- Develop automation scripts and tools using Python to streamline operations and improve efficiency.
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize AWS networking components, ensuring high availability and performance.
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior engineers.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on security engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
- Proficient in using CI/CD tools like Jenkins or Spinnaker, and version control tools such as GitHub or Bitbucket with a focus on continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines
- Hands-on experience with AWS services including IAM, Lambda, KMS (Data Security), S3, and Kinesis.
- Experience in debugging, maintaining, monitoring, and providing production support in large environments using tools like Splunk, Datadog, and CloudWatch.
- Experience with container orchestration and deployment in AWS Cloud.
- Strong Python development skills
- Strong AWS and DevOps experience
- Solid understanding of networking concepts and architecture on AWS.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- AWS certifications is highly desirable(e.g., Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer)
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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
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.
Top Skills
AWS
Cloudwatch
Datadog
Git
Jenkins
Python
Spinnaker
Splunk
Terraform
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