Lead Security Engineer - AWS

As a Lead Security Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Cybersecurity & Technology Controls, you will be an integral part of a team focused on creating software solutions that adhere to functional and user specifications while implementing safeguards against misuse, circumvention, and malicious activities. In your role as a core technical contributor, you will be tasked with delivering essential technology solutions using tamper-proof and audit-defensible methods across diverse technical domains within various business functions. 

Job responsibilities

• Ability to design, architect, and implement applications on public cloud platforms, specifically AWS.
• Design, build, and maintain scalable and secure AWS infrastructure using best practices.
• Design, develop, and troubleshoot innovative software solutions by thinking beyond conventional approaches to solve complex technical problems.
• Proficiency in using Terraform for automating infrastructure deployment and management, ensuring scalable and reliable cloud environment.
• Architect and implement solutions leveraging AWS services such as EC2, ECS, Lambda, Load Balancers, API Gateway, S3, EBS, SQS, SNS, and other storage and messaging services.
• Proactively anticipate, diagnose, and resolve technical challenges to keep systems running smoothly
• Leverage AWS services for scalable deployments
• Develop automation scripts and tools using Python to streamline operations and improve efficiency.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize AWS networking components, ensuring high availability and performance.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior engineers.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on security engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• Proficient in using CI/CD tools like Jenkins or Spinnaker, and version control tools such as GitHub or Bitbucket with a focus on continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines
• Hands-on experience with AWS services including IAM, Lambda, KMS (Data Security), S3, and Kinesis.
• Experience in debugging, maintaining, monitoring, and providing production support in large environments using tools like Splunk, Datadog, and CloudWatch.
• Experience with container orchestration and deployment in AWS Cloud.
• Strong Python development skills
• Strong AWS and DevOps experience 
• Solid understanding of networking concepts and architecture on AWS.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• AWS certifications is highly desirable(e.g., Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer)