SaaS Security Configuration Lead – Strategy & Posture

US Bank; Minneapolis (MN); On-site; USD 145,000 - 195,000; Full time

Job summary

U.S. Bank is seeking a SaaS Security Configuration Manager to lead a team of analysts and engineers in defining and executing security configuration strategies across SaaS applications.

You will partner with information security, risk, and business stakeholders to establish measurable requirements and monitor remediation efforts. The role demands building scalable monitoring capabilities, managing configuration drift, and ensuring compliance with regulatory obligations in a complex financial

Qualifications

• 5+ years of progressive leadership or technical leadership experience in SaaS security, security configuration management, cloud security, security engineering, security architecture, or security technology management.
• Proven success implementing or leading security configuration, SaaS security, cloud security posture, or comparable security engineering functions.
• Demonstrated understanding of security configuration risks associated with SaaS technologies, including identity, authentication, authorization, privileged access.

Responsibilities

• Translate SaaS security principles, control requirements, and configuration standards into actionable monitoring, engineering, and remediation activities.
• Develop and maintain a risk-oriented SaaS security configuration strategy and roadmap aligned to Information Security program needs and regulatory requirements.
• Define security configuration expectations for SaaS platforms across IAM, privileged access, authentication, data protection, logging, and controls.
• Own the execution scope for SaaS security configuration monitoring and posture management capabilities.
• Establish processes for identifying and evaluating configuration weaknesses, drift, and deviations from expectations.
• Define and measure success criteria for the function, including metrics for posture and remediation progress.
• Prioritize and remediate SaaS configuration risks with owners, technologists, and risk functions.
• Build scalable approaches to evaluate SaaS platform risk, criticality, and data sensitivity.

Skills

Saas security

Security configuration management

Cloud security

Security engineering

Security architecture

Security technology management

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Job description

U.S. Bank is seeking a SaaS Security Configuration Manager to lead a team of analysts and engineers in defining and executing security configuration strategies across SaaS applications.

You will partner with information security, risk, and business stakeholders to establish measurable requirements and monitor remediation efforts. The role demands building scalable monitoring capabilities, managing configuration drift, and ensuring compliance with regulatory obligations in a complex financial