Security Engineer III - Offensive/Defensive Web Security

Your seniority as a security engineer puts you in the ranks of the top talent in your field. Play a critical role at one of the worlds most iconic financial institutions where security is vital.

As a Security Engineer III at JPMorganChase within the Cybersecurity and Technology Controls Line of Business, you serve as a seasoned member of a 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. Carry out critical technology solutions with tamper-proof, audit defensible methods across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firms business objectives.

Job responsibilities

• Executes security solutions design, development, and technical troubleshooting with the ability to apply knowledge of existing security solutions to satisfy security requirements for internal clients (e.g., product, platform, application owners).
• Applies specialized tools (e.g., vulnerability scanner) to analyze and correlate incident data to identify, interpret, and summarize the probability and impact of threats when determining specific vulnerabilities.
• Leads delivery of continuity-related awareness, training, educational activities, and exercises.
• Manages and maintains security configuration baselines for web hosting and application server infrastructure assets including Apache HTTP Server, Apache Tomcat, Microsoft IIS, IBM HTTP Server, WebSphere Application Server, Nginx, and related technologies.
• Coordinates with product engineering teams, application owners, and control domain stakeholders to define, implement, and monitor secure baseline configurations across multiple platforms.
• Conducts annual baseline recertification activities, mapping security controls to industry standards (CIS Benchmarks, STIGs) and coordinating material changes across engineering, monitoring, and customer communication teams.
• Collaborates with configuration drift monitoring teams to develop, test, and maintain detection policies that ensure compliance with published security configuration standards.
• Provides technical guidance and remediation support to application teams for security configuration findings.
• Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on security engineering concepts and 3+ years applied experience.
• Experience developing security engineering solutions.
• Proficient in coding in one or more languages.
• Overall knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Solid understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, application resiliency, and security.
• Experience with security configuration management, baseline hardening, and compliance frameworks.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with ability to interpret technical security requirements and translate them into actionable controls.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience with web server and application server technologies (Apache, Tomcat, IIS, WebSphere, Nginx).
• Familiarity with configuration drift monitoring tools and SIEM platforms.
• Knowledge of industry security benchmarks and standards (CIS, DISA STIGs, NIST).
• Experience working with cross-functional teams including product engineering, SREs, and control domain stakeholders.
• Understanding of cloud and container security configurations.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills for technical documentation and stakeholder engagement.
• Certifications such as OSCP or OSCE is a plus.

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