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Lead Security Engineer- Python , AWS

JP Morgan

5 - 10 years

Bengaluru

Posted: 16/05/2025

Job Description

Take on a crucial role where you'll be a key part of a high-performing team delivering secure software solutions. Make a real impact as you help shape the future of software security at one of the world's largest and most influential companies.

As a Lead Security Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Cybersecurity & Tech Controls team, you are an integral part of team that works to deliver software solutions that satisfy pre-defined functional and user requirements with the added dimension of preventing misuse, circumvention, and malicious behavior. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for carrying out critical technology solutions with tamper-proof, audit defensible methods across multiple technical areas within various business functions. 

Job responsibilities

  • Executes creative security solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with the ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions and break down technical problems.
  • Develops secure and high-quality production code and reviews and debugs code written by others, with a focus on Python backend development and Public cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP).
  • Designs and develops APIs and backend services using Java or Node.js modules, ensuring robust and scalable solutions.
  • Minimizes security vulnerabilities by following industry insights and governmental regulations to continuously evolve security protocols, including creating processes to determine the effectiveness of current controls.
  • Works with stakeholders and business leaders to understand security needs and recommend business modifications during periods of vulnerability.
  • Conducts discovery, vulnerability, penetration testing, and threat scenarios on multiple organizational assets to identify and assess if vulnerabilities are present, and executes threat modeling for multiple applications including external applications interacting with the internal JPMorgan Chase network.
  • Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect.

 

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

  • Formal training or certification on Security engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
  • Experience in Python programming and cloud security engineering, gained through both formal experience and practical application.
  • Experienced in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, Pulumi, AWS CloudFormation, Google Deployment Manager, and Azure Resource Manager.
  • Capable of planning, designing, and implementing enterprise-level security solutions.
  • Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle within a public cloud environment.
  • Have an advanced understanding of agile methodologies, including CI/CD, application resiliency, and security

 

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

  • Specific experience deploying commercial software at scale into an enterprise environment.
  • Cloud computing related certifications with an AWS/Azure/GCP focus are strongly preferred, such as AWS Certified Security, Solutions Architect, Developer Engineer, or similar.
  • Hands-on programming skills in one or more programming languages, with a preference for Python.
  • Experience effectively communicating with senior business leaders.
 

About Company

JP Morgan Chase & Co. is one of the world's largest and most prestigious financial institutions, headquartered in New York City. It operates in over 100 countries, providing a wide range of financial services including investment banking, asset management, commercial banking, and wealth management.The company serves corporations, governments, institutions, and individual clients, offering expertise in areas such as mergers and acquisitions (M&A), securities trading, and credit management. Known for its global reach and financial strength, JP Morgan is a leader in innovation and sustainability within the banking industry.

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