Cloud Lead Security Engineer - Greenfield Project

JPMorgan Chase & Co.
London
1 week ago
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Job Description

Be an integral part of a team thats constantly pushing the envelope to enhance, build, and deliver top-notch technology products.

As a Cloud Security Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Global Banking Platform, you will be a key member of our team. Your role will involve delivering software solutions that meet pre-defined functional and user requirements, with an added focus on preventing misuse, circumvention, and malicious behaviour. You will be responsible for implementing critical technology solutions with tamper-proof, audit defensible methods across multiple technical areas within various business functions, all in support of the firms business objectives.

We are building the next generation core banking platform that will operate at a global scale and will support hundreds of millions of accounts. We use cloud native technologies, and the work involves the development of micro-services, integrations, dashboards, production support tools and CI/CD pipelines.

Initially, successful candidates for the role will be seconded to a FinTech software partner. This is an exciting opportunity to experience the day to day of a fintech while being fully backed by JPMC. After the conclusion of the secondment, all secondees will return to JPMC and apply the knowledge, technologies and practices acquired and develop the critical services to support GBPs worldwide journey to the cloud.

Job Responsibilities

  1. Provide security expertise and mentorship to engineering teams through the stages of planning, design, and testing of new solutions.
  2. Co-develop threat models with engineering teams that identify relevant threats and relevant strategies for mitigation.
  3. Design and build cloud native preventative and detective controls that operate at scale.
  4. Build and maintain automation to actively audit and assess infrastructure-as-code and in-place infrastructure.
  5. Develop (in code) security tooling, contribute to third-party security products, and develop updates for existing tooling that is in use in our environment.
  6. Work with cloud engineering and operations teams to develop tooling that maintains our secure operating state in production.
  7. Perform security reviews and security testing.
  8. Contribute to the overall security strategy, security tooling selection and creation.
  9. Operate collaboratively with other internal teams with trust and influence.


Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

  1. Formal training or certification on security engineering concepts and applied experience.
  2. Familiarity with building and deploying containerised applications in public cloud using CI/CD frameworks and infrastructure automation.
  3. Knowledge of cloud networking architecture, cloud operations, security, automation and orchestration.
  4. Familiarity with performing security threat modelling and design reviews.
  5. Knowledge of security in distributed systems.
  6. Familiarity with good security practices with containers and Kubernetes.
  7. Experience with languages such as Go, Python, or other modern programming languages.
  8. Coding experience in the creation, automation, and integration of security tools.
  9. Experience in version control systems such as Git.
  10. Experience with designing, developing, and maintaining security in public cloud environments such as AWS and GCP.
  11. Strong interpersonal and communication skills to support collaboration with other personnel and teams.


Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills

  1. Existing experience building and operating distributed systems at scale.
  2. Awareness and experience with well-architected cloud security frameworks.
  3. Contributions to the security community (public research, blogging, presentations, etc).
  4. Experience in performing web application penetration testing and security tooling.
  5. Experience developing tools and interacting with cloud provider APIs.


About Us

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the worlds 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.

About the Team

Our Consumer & Community Banking Group depends on innovators like you to serve consumers, small businesses, municipalities and non-profits. Youll support the delivery of award winning tools and services that cover everything from personal and small business banking as well as lending, mortgages, credit cards, payments, auto finance and investment advice. This group is also focused on developing and delivering cutting edged mobile applications, digital experiences and next generation banking technology solutions to better serve our clients and customers.J-18808-Ljbffr

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