Security Engineering Lead - Cloud & DevSecOps

capitalone; Richmond (VA); On-site; USD 209,000 - 239,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Sr. Manager, Security Engineer to lead encryption strategy, data protection, and cryptographic policy across enterprise platforms. You will architect scalable protection solutions and drive security architectures across multiple domains.

The role emphasizes automation, secure product development, and mentoring senior engineers to elevate technical excellence while embedding security by design across software, cloud, and infrastructure teams.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in cybersecurity or information technology.
• 3+ years of people leadership experience.
• 3+ years of experience delivering enterprise-scale security or infrastructure initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a trusted advisor driving encryption, data protection, and cryptographic policy engineering.
• Architect scalable data protection solutions across multiple cryptographic disciplines and tokenization platforms.
• Define and lead implementation of security reference architectures and reusable control patterns.

Skills

People leadership

Cloud security

Security architecture

DevSecOps

Automation

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Sr. Manager, Security Engineer to lead encryption strategy, data protection, and cryptographic policy across enterprise platforms. You will architect scalable protection solutions and drive security architectures across multiple domains.

The role emphasizes automation, secure product development, and mentoring senior engineers to elevate technical excellence while embedding security by design across software, cloud, and infrastructure teams.