Security Engineering Leader, Cloud & Data Protection

Capital One Group; Richmond (VA); On-site; USD 209,000 - 239,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Security Leader to drive encryption, data protection and cryptographic policy across enterprise platforms. You will architect scalable protection, define reference architectures, and engineer automation for continuous detection and remediation, partnering with engineering teams to embed security by design.

The role requires senior leadership, 7+ years in cybersecurity, and 8+ years in cloud or infrastructure security, with hands-on IaC tools.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma, GED or Equivalent Certification required.
• 7+ years in cybersecurity or information technology.
• 3+ years of people leadership experience.
• 3+ years delivering enterprise-scale security or infrastructure initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Serve as trusted advisor for encryption, data protection and cryptographic policy engineering.
• Architect scalable data protection across cryptographic disciplines and tokenization platforms.
• Lead security reference architectures and reusable control patterns across domains.
• Design automation for continuous detection, compliance and remediation.
• Embed security by design with platform, data and product teams.

Skills

Cloud security

CI/CD security

Infrastructure as code

Data protection

Cryptographic policy

Security leadership

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

KMS

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Security Leader to drive encryption, data protection and cryptographic policy across enterprise platforms. You will architect scalable protection, define reference architectures, and engineer automation for continuous detection and remediation, partnering with engineering teams to embed security by design.

The role requires senior leadership, 7+ years in cybersecurity, and 8+ years in cloud or infrastructure security, with hands-on IaC tools.