ApplicationLeadSecurityEngineer-GreenfieldProject

Hispanic Alliance for Career Enhancement; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as an Application Security Engineer, where you will enhance and deliver cutting-edge technology solutions. This role focuses on ensuring the security of software applications, utilizing cloud-native technologies and micro-services. You'll collaborate with development and infrastructure teams to drive security improvements, perform design reviews, and conduct regular assessments. This is an exciting opportunity to work within a dynamic fintech environment, applying your expertise to safeguard critical services. If you're passionate about security and innovation, this role is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Experience in web application penetration testing and security tooling.
• Knowledge of security in distributed systems at scale.
• Expertise with a programming language like Python, Go, or Java.

Responsibilities

• Drive improvements to product security posture through strategic planning.
• Perform vulnerability assessments and security testing.
• Contribute to security strategy and tooling selection.

Skills

Python

Go

Java

DevOps Security

Web Application Penetration Testing

Security Tooling

Threat Modelling

Risk Assessments

Cloud Security

Distributed Systems Security

Education

Formal Training in Security Engineering

Professional Security Qualifications

Tools

Burp Proxy

Web Scanners

Static Code Analyzers

AWS

GCP

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

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

As an Application 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 firm's 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 to develop the critical services supporting GBP's worldwide journey to the cloud.

Job Responsibilities

1. Drive improvements to product security posture through strategic planning and collaboration with both development and infrastructure teams, with trust, autonomy, and influence.
2. Produce production web-scale application security design.
3. Review and produce data privacy and financial regulatory functional and nonfunctional designs.
4. Perform design reviews and Threat Modelling of services and products.
5. Perform vulnerability assessments and security testing.
6. Provide subject matter expertise on all areas of security and privacy throughout the Software Development lifecycle.
7. Liaise with development teams for design, code reviews & education.
8. Contribute to security strategy, security tooling selection, and creation.
9. Conduct regular security assessments and code reviews.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification in security engineering concepts and applied experience.
• Expertise with a programming language (e.g., Python, Go, or Java).
• Experience of security in a DevOps environment.
• Experience in web application penetration testing and security tooling (e.g., Burp proxy, Web/Network Scanners, Static code analysers, etc.).
• Coding experience for automating/integrating security tools and creating security tools.
• Knowledge of security in distributed systems at scale.
• Cloud and container technology knowledge (e.g., AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker).
• Experience in performing security design reviews, threat modelling, and risk assessments.
• Knowledge of application security issues.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Professional security qualifications are desirable.
• Contributions to the security community (public research, blogging, presentations, etc.).
• Awareness and experience of the Data Protection Act, ISO 27001, and PCI-DSS.

About the Team

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.