Lead Cloud Security Engineer
JPMorgan Chase · Dublin
Join us to make a meaningful impact on the security of our global cloud infrastructure. As a Lead Cloud Security Engineer, you will help shape the future of cybersecurity and technology controls at JPMorgan Chase & Co. You’ll collaborate with talented professionals, drive innovation, and advance your career in a dynamic environment. We value your expertise and commitment to continuous improvement. Experience the opportunity to lead, mentor, and influence the direction of cloud security.
As a Lead Cloud Security Engineer in the Cybersecurity & Technology Controls Product Security team aligned to the Azure Cloud programme, you will ensure public cloud adoption is secure and compliant. You will identify and manage risk-related issues, partner with senior leaders, and drive automation of controls. Your role is pivotal in keeping the firm protected, stable, and resilient. You will contribute to a culture of ownership and continuous improvement.
Job Responsibilities:
- Contribute to the evolution of a multi-year information risk and control strategy for public cloud, setting vision, OKRs, and KRIs that align with enterprise risk appetite, policies, and regulatory expectations.
- Use enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to accelerate threat modeling, vulnerability analysis synthesis, and security documentation, validating outputs and ensuring sensitive data is handled appropriately.
- Lead risk-based design and assessment of security controls across cloud services, platforms, and reference architectures; establish standardized control baselines and reusable patterns for AWS, Azure, and GCP.
- Chair or co-chair governance forums, make informed risk acceptance decisions, and drive timely remediation, deviation tracking, and benefits realization.
- Partner with senior leaders across engineering, product, and risk to embed “security by design,” ensuring deep integration with security operations, threat intelligence, IAM, network security, and data protection.
- Set the operating model for infrastructure as code security: define guardrails, policy as code, and automated pre-commit/pre-deploy controls; oversee security reviews for Terraform and platform engineering pipelines.
- Establish and maintain authoritative documentation, standards, and playbooks; implement agile delivery mechanisms for security programs at scale.
- Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing matrixed team of security engineers and risk analysts; develop talent, clarify accountabilities, and cultivate a culture of ownership and continuous improvement.
- Define and report control effectiveness and residual risk through executive-ready dashboards; brief senior stakeholders, audit, and regulators; ensure audit readiness and sustainable evidence practices.
- Drive the tooling and automation strategy for cloud security, including build vs buy evaluations, vendor management, and integration with existing telemetry and SOAR platforms.
- Strengthen cloud incident preparedness and response by leading threat modeling, tabletop exercises, and post-incident reviews that translate lessons learned into control enhancements.
- Apply reuse-first, AI-assisted practices within SDLC/toolchain routines to strengthen security testing and control validation, ensuring traceability/auditability and alignment to resiliency and security expectations.
Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:
- Formal training or certification on security engineering concepts and advanced applied experience.
- Skilled in planning, designing, and implementing enterprise-level security solutions.
- Demonstrated experience using enterprise-authorized AI capabilities within the work environment to support security engineering workflows with strong validation habits and awareness of data sensitivity.
- Ability to review and validate AI-assisted code/security recommendations before adoption, escalating uncertainty and ensuring outcomes align to security, resiliency, and auditability expectations.
- Advanced in one or more programming languages.
- Proficient across SDLC execution, including agile methodologies such as CI/CD, application resiliency, and security.
- Experience with threat modeling, discovery, vulnerability, and penetration testing.
Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:
- Deep expertise securing public cloud at scale, spanning identity and access management, network segmentation, data protection, logging/monitoring, and native cloud services across AWS, Azure, and/or GCP.
- Proven leadership of cross-functional security programs with measurable outcomes; adept at influencing VP+ stakeholders and navigating complex prioritization across multiple platforms and business lines.
- Exceptional executive communication and stakeholder management skills, including experience engaging internal audit and external regulators with clear narratives, metrics, and remediation roadmaps.
- Demonstrated ability to translate policy and risk requirements into practical designs and policy as code guardrails that balance delivery velocity with control effectiveness.
- Hands-on familiarity with Terraform and infrastructure as code security, DevSecOps and CI/CD concepts, and enforcement frameworks within modern development workflows.
- Strong program execution under tight timelines; highly self-directed with a bias for action, ownership, and outcome orientation.
- Advanced cloud and security certifications are a plus; experience deploying and operating CSPM/CIEM/CWPP solutions is advantageous.
We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.