Senior Cloud Threat Hunter & Security Architect

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorganChase is seeking a Lead Cybersecurity Architect in Columbus, OH to secure cloud adoption across engineering, product, and risk teams. You will translate complex threat landscapes into scalable controls and embed secure-by-design principles across cloud architectures.

The role focuses on threat modeling, cloud-security tooling, IaC reviews, and developing preventive/detective controls at enterprise scale to protect the firm’s cloud environments.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on cybersecurity concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• Hands-on cloud-native experience across one or more major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud), including relevant cloud security certification.
• Demonstrated experience with threat modeling methodologies and delivering risk-based security assessments.
• Experience with cloud security posture management tooling (e.g., Wiz, Prisma Cloud, CrowdStrike Falcon, or equivalent).
• Knowledge of infrastructure-as-code frameworks (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent) and their security implications.

Responsibilities

• Partner with stakeholders across product, engineering, and risk and controls teams to understand firm control requirements, recommend implementations across a broad range of cloud architectures, and ensure secure-by-design principles are embedded throughout.
• Develop, plan, and execute hypothesis-driven, cloud-focused threat hunts, translating findings into actionable security outcomes including detection rules, alert tuning, and compensating controls.
• Apply specialized tooling to query, analyze, correlate, and interpret large datasets to identify potential threats and emerging risk patterns.
• Deliver threat models and risk-based assessments of cloud services, cloud platforms, and cloud-based applications to inform architecture and engineering decisions.
• Perform security reviews of infrastructure-as-code for cloud platform development, ensuring alignment with firm standards and industry best practices.
• Develop preventive and detective controls to enforce control requirements across cloud environments at enterprise scale.
• Interface with broader cybersecurity teams to ensure platform integration with security operations, threat intelligence, and incident response — operationalizing detections, improving triage playbooks, and supporting cloud threat investigations.
• Provide expert guidance on the cloud threat landscape, adversary tradecraft, and emerging risks to inform strategic security decisions.
• Contribute to documentation and agile processes in support of security programs, driving consistency and repeatability across the team.

Skills

Security concepts

Cloud platforms

Threat modeling

Risk-based decisions

Tools

Wiz

Prisma Cloud

CrowdStrike Falcon

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

JPMorganChase is seeking a Lead Cybersecurity Architect in Columbus, OH to secure cloud adoption across engineering, product, and risk teams. You will translate complex threat landscapes into scalable controls and embed secure-by-design principles across cloud architectures.

The role focuses on threat modeling, cloud-security tooling, IaC reviews, and developing preventive/detective controls at enterprise scale to protect the firm’s cloud environments.