Cloud Security Software Engineer

Job Description
Join a team where your expertise drives innovation and security at JPMorgan Chase. You will have the opportunity to make a real impact, collaborate with talented professionals, and advance your career in a dynamic environment. Here, you will develop your skills, work on cutting-edge projects, and help protect one of the world's largest and most influential companies. You will benefit from a culture that values diversity, equity, inclusion, and continuous learning. Discover how you can grow your career while making a difference.
Job summary:
As a Lead Security Engineer in Cybersecurity & Technology Controls, you will deliver secure software solutions that meet functional and user requirements while preventing misuse and malicious behavior. As a core technical contributor, you will carry out critical technology solutions using tamper-proof, audit-defensible methods across multiple technical areas. You will work with us to minimize vulnerabilities, conduct threat modeling, and collaborate with stakeholders to enhance security protocols. Together, we foster a culture of innovation, respect, and professional growth.
Job responsibilities

• Execute creative security solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting to build and improve secure software.
• Develop secure, high-quality production code and review and debug code written by others.
• Minimize security vulnerabilities by evolving security protocols and creating processes to assess control effectiveness.
• Work with stakeholders and business leaders to understand security needs and recommend modifications during periods of vulnerability.
• Conduct discovery, vulnerability, penetration testing, and threat scenarios to identify and assess vulnerabilities.
• Execute threat modeling for multiple applications, including those interacting with internal networks.
• Contribute to a team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification in Public Cloud environment concepts and advanced proficiency.
• Foundational cybersecurity knowledge, including IAM, Authentication, OIDC, SAML.
• Skilled in planning, designing, and implementing enterprise-level security solutions.
• Strong experience developing and architecting cloud-native applications with AWS services.
• Proficiency in Data Analytics AWS services (Redshift, Lake Formation) and SaaS Data Platform Technologies (Snowflake, Databricks).
• Practical experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions such as Terraform and CloudFormation.
• Experience developing enterprise software and proficiency in multiple languages, preferably Python.
• Ability to conceptualize, design, validate, and implement creative solutions to complex technical issues.
• Demonstrated ability to quickly understand new architectures and designs.
• Ability to work independently and collaborate within a team to achieve common goals.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Cloud certifications, including AWS Developer Associate and AWS Solutions Architect Associate.
• Snowflake certifications.
• Knowledge of AI/ML field trends.
• Experience with DSPM (Data Security Posture Management) tools.

About Us
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.
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.