Cloud Security Engineer III - GCP

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; City Of London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services firm in London seeks a Cloud Security Engineer to enhance cybersecurity measures in public cloud environments. Responsibilities include supporting risk strategies, evaluating technology controls, and ensuring security integration across teams. Ideal candidates will have a strong background in Information Security concepts and excellent communication skills. This role is crucial for maintaining secure cloud operations.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on Information Security concepts.
• Eagerness to collaborate in teams.
• Strong sense of ownership and drive.
• Effective communication in discussions and meetings.
• Ability to prioritize and work under stringent timelines.

Responsibilities

• Support execution of information risk and control strategy.
• Deliver assessments of secure technology controls.
• Assist technology teams with control requirements.
• Review security of infrastructure-as-code.
• Contribute to documentation and agile processes.
• Interface with CTC teams for platform integration.

Skills

Information Security concepts

Team collaboration

Verbal and written communication

Ability to prioritize under deadlines

Tools

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

Terraform

Job description

Job Description

JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is a top financial services firm with over $2 trillion in assets, operating in more than 60 countries. As a leader in investment banking and various financial services, the firm's Cybersecurity & Technology Controls (CTC) group partners with all business lines to enhance cybersecurity, access management, and controls. The CTC group focuses on enabling business operations while ensuring protection and resilience.

As a Cloud Security Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Cybersecurity & Technology Controls (CTC) group, your primary responsibility will be to ensure that Public Cloud is adopted in a secure and compliant manner. You will play an important role in identifying and managing risk related issues and actions with respective technology. You will have an eye for detail and an ability to see the big picture across security issues.

Job Responsibilities

• Support the execution and enhancement of a long term information risk and control strategy designed to keep the information assets of the public cloud secure.
• Deliver risk based assessments of secure technology controls relating to cloud services, cloud platforms and architectural components.
• Support business technology teams to understand firm control requirements and implementations across a broad range of cloud architectures.
• Perform security reviews of infrastructure-as-code for cloud platform development and participating in threat modelling activities.
• Contribute to documentation and agile processes in support of security programs.
• Interface with wider CTC teams ensuring platform integration with security operations, threat intelligence, IAM and network security.

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Formal training or certification on Information Security concepts and expanding applied experience.
• Eagerness to collaborate in a team, and comfortable in both virtual and office environments.
• Self-disciplined, self-managed, self-motivated and strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive.
• Proficient verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to effectively participate in discussions and meetings with internal management, peer groups, regulators and senior stakeholders.
• Ability to prioritize and work under stringent timelines.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Keen desire to understand and secure public cloud technology.
• AWS, Azure or Google Cloud certifications would be an advantage.
• Hands on experience of developing, engineering or architecting within a public cloud environment would be an advantage.
• Experience engineering with Terraform or infrastructure-as-code would be an advantage.
• Understanding of DevOps or CI/CD concepts would be an advantage.

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

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.