Senior Security Engineer: HSM & Crypto Infra

JP Morgan Chase; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase is seeking a Security Engineer to design, implement, and maintain secure, scalable infrastructure for critical payment and cryptographic operations. You will work with Hardware Security Modules and enterprise security controls.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, drive standards, and contribute to business continuity while applying AI-assisted security practices to threat modeling and compliance.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on security engineering concepts and years applied experience.
• Experience with Hardware Security Modules including architecture and highly available infra.
• Experience with network security, firewalls, secure room operations and key ceremonies.
• Proficient Linux/Unix administration in enterprise environments.
• Proficiency in designing infrastructure architectures using industry-standard tools.
• Experience with Terraform for managing secure environments.
• Hands-on experience with OpenSSL and certificate-based authentication mechanisms.
• Ability to review AI-assisted code/security recommendations with strong validation.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture, design, and documentation of HSM and cryptographic infrastructure.
• Design and implement HSM solutions across Thales and FutureX platforms.
• Develop diagrams, system documentation, and runbooks for operations.
• Collaborate to define infrastructure standards, security controls, and policy alignment.
• Oversee migration, upgrade, and consolidation of HSM infrastructure with minimal disruption.
• Provide guidance on cryptographic key management, confidential computing, and compliance.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure issues and perform root cause analysis with monitoring tools.
• Participate in risk assessments, audits, and incident response activities.
• Apply domain knowledge of payments and resiliency to infrastructure decisions.
• Leverage enterprise AI capabilities to speed threat modeling and security documentation; ensure data handling.
• Apply reuse-first, AI-assisted SDLC practices to strengthen security testing and traceability.

Skills

Hardware Security Modules

Infrastructure architecture

Linux/Unix administration

Network security

Key management

AI-assisted security practices

Security audits

Threat modeling

Education

Security engineering certification

Tools

Terraform

Splunk

OpenSSL

Job description

JPMorgan Chase is seeking a Security Engineer to design, implement, and maintain secure, scalable infrastructure for critical payment and cryptographic operations. You will work with Hardware Security Modules and enterprise security controls.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, drive standards, and contribute to business continuity while applying AI-assisted security practices to threat modeling and compliance.