Security Configuration Manager – Cloud & Infrastructure

U.S. Bank; Minneapolis (MN); On-site; USD 133,000 - 157,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401(k)

Paid vacation

Parental leave

Sick leave

Disability insurance

Job summary

U.S. Bank is seeking an experienced Information Security Manager to lead Configuration Implementation, maturing secure configuration across infrastructure, cloud services, OS, apps, and platforms.

You will guide a growing team, translate security expectations into technical controls, and partner with engineering to prevent drift and meet compliance. This role demands strategic leadership with hands-on delivery.

Qualifications

• Five+ years of progressive leadership in technical security, infrastructure security, cloud security, configuration engineering, security architecture, or security technology management.
• Experience leading technical security, infrastructure, cloud, or 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.
• Security certifications such as CISSP, ITIL 4, AWS Solutions Architect Professional, or Azure Solutions Architect Expert.

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, OS, 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 to identify drift and gaps.
• Partner with cloud, infrastructure, platform, application, and security engineering teams to implement secure configurations.
• Influence engineering practices to embed security requirements earlier in development and deployment.
• Collaborate with technology SMEs to identify configuration risks and controls.
• Establish governance, metrics, and success criteria for secure configuration management.
• Prioritize remediation with security, engineering, risk and compliance teams.
• Support regulatory, compliance, and audit obligations through configuration management.
• Build relationships with engineering leaders and business partners.
• Develop technical talent and foster accountability, collaboration, urgency, and continuous improvement.

Skills

Leadership experience

Security program governance

Secure configuration management

Cloud security

Security architecture

Stakeholder management

Security certifications

Education

Security certification

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

GitLab

Checkov

Chef

Artifactory

Azure Policy

AWS SCPs

Tenable.io

Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Job description

U.S. Bank is seeking an experienced Information Security Manager to lead Configuration Implementation, maturing secure configuration across infrastructure, cloud services, OS, apps, and platforms.

You will guide a growing team, translate security expectations into technical controls, and partner with engineering to prevent drift and meet compliance. This role demands strategic leadership with hands-on delivery.