Security Configuration Lead — Cloud & Infrastructure

Us Bank; Minneapolis (MN); Hybrid; USD 133,000 - 157,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Life insurance

Disability coverage

Parental leave

401(k)

Paid vacation

Holiday opportunities

Adoption assistance

Sick leave

Job summary

U.S. Bank is seeking an experienced Information Security Manager to lead its Configuration Implementation function within Information Security Services.

This leader will build and mature secure configuration management across the bank’s infrastructure, cloud services, operating systems, applications, and platforms. You will lead a growing team of security analysts and implement a strategy, translate security requirements into technical controls, and partner with engineering to prevent

Qualifications

• Five or more years of progressive leadership experience within technical security, infrastructure security, cloud security, configuration engineering, security architecture, or security technology management.
• Experience leading security configuration management teams.
• Strong understanding of secure configuration management, security baselines, and technical security controls.
• Experience defining, implementing, or maintaining secure configuration standards across enterprise technology environments.
• Experience working across cloud, infrastructure, operating systems, applications, or security platforms.
• Demonstrated ability to partner with engineering teams and influence technical strategy and implementation.
• Experience building or maturing security programs, processes, operating models, or governance frameworks.
• Knowledge of security risk management, regulatory requirements, and compliance obligations.
• Strong stakeholder management, relationship-building, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Ability to balance strategic program leadership with tactical execution.
• Relevant security, cloud, infrastructure, or service management certification, such as CISSP, ITIL 4, AWS Solutions Architect Professional, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or a comparable certification.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of security configuration analysts and implementation resources.
• Build and execute the strategy and roadmap for the Configuration Implementation function.
• Define and standardize secure configuration requirements across infrastructure, cloud services, operating systems, applications, and security platforms.
• Develop and maintain secure configuration standards, technical controls, and implementation guidance.
• Translate security and compliance requirements into actionable technical configuration controls.
• Oversee configuration monitoring and scanning capabilities used to identify configuration drift, control gaps, and compliance issues.
• Partner with cloud, infrastructure, platform, application, and security engineering teams to implement and maintain secure configurations.
• Influence engineering practices to embed security requirements earlier in development and deployment processes.
• Collaborate with technology subject matter experts to identify configuration risks and determine appropriate security controls.
• Establish processes, governance, performance measures, and success criteria for the secure configuration management program.
• Prioritize remediation efforts in partnership with security, engineering, business, risk, and compliance stakeholders.
• Support regulatory, compliance, and audit obligations through effective technical configuration management practices.
• Build strong relationships with engineering leaders, technology teams, security stakeholders, and business partners.
• Develop technical talent and create a culture of accountability, collaboration, urgency, and continuous improvement.

Skills

Leadership

Team leadership

Secure configuration

Config standards

Cloud & infrastructure

Engineering collaboration

Security programs

Regulatory knowledge

Stakeholder management

Strategic leadership

Certifications

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

GitLab

Checkov

Chef

Artifactory

Azure policies

Ten able.io

Wiz

Defender for Cloud

AWS tooling

Config monitoring

Growing team

Job description

U.S. Bank is seeking an experienced Information Security Manager to lead its Configuration Implementation function within Information Security Services.

This leader will build and mature secure configuration management across the bank’s infrastructure, cloud services, operating systems, applications, and platforms. You will lead a growing team of security analysts and implement a strategy, translate security requirements into technical controls, and partner with engineering to prevent