Senior Cloud Security Engineer & DevSecOps Lead

JPMorgan Chase; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase in Plano, TX seeks a Lead Security Engineer to join an agile team focused on building secure, scalable technology products. You will lead cloud security implementations, drive secure SDLC practices, and collaborate with senior leaders to mitigate threats across multiple networks.

The role requires strong coding in Java/Python/Go, Terraform, and extensive AWS experience, with an emphasis on automation, CI/CD, and security governance.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on Security Engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience.
• Advanced hands-on coding experience in java or Python/Go and Terraform.
• Proficient in core concepts for Networking, Infrastructure as Code (IaaC), Public Cloud architecture, and Cloud Security.
• Expertise in developing and designing complex cloud architectures, deploying scalable solutions, creating, and handling CI/CD pipelines, application resiliency, security design and implementation, and triaging issues in Agile Software Development Lifecycle methodology.
• Extensive experience with threat modeling, discovery, vulnerability, and penetration testing.
• Experience with WAF technologies such as AWS WAF, Akamai, Cloudflare, or similar.
• Demonstrated experience using enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to support security engineering workflows with strong validation habits and awareness of data sensitivity.
• Ability to review and validate AI-assisted code/security recommendations before adoption, escalating uncertainty and ensuring outcomes align to security, resiliency, and auditability expectations.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate security requirements clarification for multiple networks to enable multi-level security, satisfying organizational needs for both ingress and egress traffic. Work at code-level using java/ Python and drive the maturity of the Cybersecurity software development lifecycle with an advanced understanding of line of business technology drivers.
• Perform deployment, administration, management, configuration, testing, documentation, operations, and integration tasks related to Cloud Network Security Platforms, championing a DevOps security model to ensure security is automated and elastic across all platforms.
• Lead and develop new Cloud Security Implementations for both ingress and egress traffic. Design and develop strategies to provide end-to-end automation, architecture design, performance and monitoring, best practices, proof of concepts, product design, and transition to operations.
• Ensure quality control of engineering deliverables and ensure firm policies are compliant with strict security standards. Drive decision-making by analyzing complex data systems, ensuring all engineering activities are in conformance with firm policies & objectives. Leverage DevOps tools to build, harden, maintain, and develop a comprehensive Cloud-based security orchestration platform for network security and infrastructure as code. Develop automated security and compliance capabilities in support of DevOps processes in a large-scale Cloud computing environment.
• Collaborate with technologists, stakeholders, and senior business leaders to recommend business modifications during periods of vulnerability. Be responsible for triaging based on risk assessments of various threats and managing resources to cover the impact of disruptive events.
• Applies reuse-first, AI-assisted practices within SDLC/toolchain routines to strengthen security testing and control validation, ensuring traceability/auditability and alignment to resiliency and security expectations. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including IT, development, and operations, to ensure web application security.
• Uses enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to accelerate threat modeling, vulnerability analysis synthesis, and security documentation, validating outputs and ensuring sensitive data is handled appropriately.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

Terraform

AWS

Networking

Cloud Security

CI/CD

Threat modeling

Penetration testing

WAF

AI capabilities

Tools

Terraform

AWS

Job description

JPMorganChase in Plano, TX seeks a Lead Security Engineer to join an agile team focused on building secure, scalable technology products. You will lead cloud security implementations, drive secure SDLC practices, and collaborate with senior leaders to mitigate threats across multiple networks.

The role requires strong coding in Java/Python/Go, Terraform, and extensive AWS experience, with an emphasis on automation, CI/CD, and security governance.