Senior Manager of Security Engineering – Cloud Security

Job Description

Step up as a tech leader and innovator with your knowledge and mentorship of security engineers. Lead teams to excellence in this high-impact role.

As a Senior Manager of Security Engineering at JPMorgan Chase within the Cybersecurity and Technology Controls organization, you serve in a leadership role by providing technical coaching and advisory for multiple technical teams, as well as anticipate the needs and potential dependencies of other functions within the firm. As an expert in your field, your insights influence budget and technical considerations to advance operational efficiencies and functionalities.

Job responsibilities

• Provides overall direction, oversight, and coaching for a team of entry-level to mid-level security engineers that work on basic to moderately complex tasks
• 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
• Oversees decisions that influence teams’ resources, budget, tactical operations and the execution and implementation of processes and procedures
• Works with stakeholders and business leaders to understand security needs and recommend business modifications 
• Ensures successful collaboration across teams and stakeholders
• Identifies and mitigates issues to execute a book of work while escalating issues as necessary
• Provides input to leadership regarding budget, approach, and technical considerations to improve operational efficiencies and functionality for the team
• Creates a culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect for team members, and prioritizes diverse representation

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 10+ years applied experience.
• Experience leading teams of technologists consisting  of engineers that deliver security solutions operations
• Experience planning, designing, building and implementing enterprise level security engineering products and solutions in a public cloud environment (i.e. AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Advanced in one or more programming languages (i.e. Java, Python, C/C++)
• Working knowledge of Cloud Security Posture Management tools like Wiz, Cloud Custodian, Stacklet, etc.
• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle to include secure development practices.
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, applicant resiliency, and security
• Hands on expertise in Kubernetes and AWS cloud services with an emphasis on Infrastructure as Code (IaC) utilizing tools such as Terraform. 
• Experience with continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) tools (Jenkins), version control tools (BitBucket, Git), managing and tracking work using management tools like Jira.
• Strong communication skills demonstrating the ability to present and explain ideas and concepts.
• Ability to guide and coach teams to achieve goals aligned against set strategic initiatives

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• AWS Certified Practitioner/Cloud Engineer/Software Development Engineer/Cloud Security Engineer/Cloud Security Architect/Application Architect
• Google Certified Professional Cloud Security Engineer  and/or Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate
• Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)