Senior Cloud & Data Protection Security Engineer

Us Bank; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 112,000 - 131,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401(k) and employer-funded retirement

Paid vacation

Up to 11 paid holidays

Adoption assistance

Job summary

U.S. Bank is seeking a Senior Cloud Security Engineer to protect cloud infrastructure and security platforms across AWS, Azure, and Kubernetes.

This role sits in the Database Protection Team and focuses on database activity monitoring, tokenization, and related protections across a large technology environment. You will act as a senior technical resource, troubleshooting complex issues, onboarding databases and applications, and delivering secure, scalable solutions.

Qualifications

• Minimum five years in cloud infrastructure or security engineering.
• Strong AWS and Azure production experience.
• Experience configuring and supporting Kubernetes clusters.

Responsibilities

• Administer, support, and enhance cloud security platforms.
• Build and maintain cloud infrastructure on AWS and Azure.
• Administer Kubernetes clusters used by security services.
• Troubleshoot complex cloud, infrastructure, networking, application issues.
• Onboard databases and applications into security platforms.
• Deliver secure, scalable solutions with cross-team collaboration.

Skills

Cloud security

AWS

Azure

Kubernetes

Infrastructure troubleshooting

Independent ownership

Security platform onboarding

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions and enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One.

Job Description

This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

Location expectations: This role requires working from a U.S. Bank location three (3) or more days per week.

U.S. Bank is seeking a Senior Cloud Security Engineer to support the cloud infrastructure and security platforms that protect sensitive enterprise data. This role sits within the Database Protection Team and will support database activity monitoring, tokenization, and related database-security capabilities across a large, complex technology environment.

This person will serve as a senior technical resource responsible for supporting and enhancing security platforms hosted across AWS, Azure, and Kubernetes environments. They will troubleshoot complex infrastructure and connectivity issues, onboard databases and applications into protection platforms, implement platform improvements, and work independently to maintain stable, scalable, and secure services.

Main Responsibilities:

• Administer, support, and enhance database protection and database activity monitoring platforms.
• Build, configure, and maintain cloud-hosted infrastructure across AWS and Azure.
• Administer and support Kubernetes clusters used by security and data-protection services.
• Troubleshoot complex cloud, infrastructure, networking, application, and connectivity issues.
• Onboard databases, applications, and systems into security monitoring and protection platforms.
• Partner with database security, cloud, infrastructure, and data-protection teams to deliver secure and scalable solutions.
• Improve platform reliability, stability, performance, monitoring, and operational support.
• Implement platform upgrades, enhancements, and new technical capabilities.
• Support infrastructure-as-code, cloud automation, and deployment-pipeline initiatives.
• Serve as an L3 technical resource and independently lead complex problem resolution.

Must Have Skills:

• Five or more years of relevant cloud infrastructure, security engineering, platform engineering, or related experience.
• Hands‑on experience supporting information security, cybersecurity, or data‑protection technologies.
• Strong production experience with AWS and Azure.
• Experience administering or providing advanced support for Kubernetes clusters.
• Cloud infrastructure engineering and operational support experience.
• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot infrastructure, networking, application, and connectivity issues.
• Experience building, configuring, and maintaining cloud‑hosted environments.
• Strong understanding of enterprise infrastructure, networking, and operational practices.
• Experience supporting large, complex enterprise environments.
• Ability to work independently and function as a senior L3 technical resource with minimal oversight.

Nice to Have Skills:

• Database Activity Monitoring experience.
• Tokenization, encryption, data masking, or other data‑protection platform experience.
• Database‑security experience.
• Infrastructure‑as‑code and cloud automation experience.
• Experience with deployment pipelines and automated platform implementations.
• Experience onboarding databases or applications into enterprise security platforms.
• CISSP or another relevant security certification.
• Familiarity with ITIL or service‑management practices.
• Financial‑services or another highly regulated industry background.

Basic Skills/Experience

• Typically a Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience
• Typically five or more years of relevant experience
• Advanced technical and functional subject matter expert knowledge across security domain areas

Location expectations
This role requires working from a U.S. Bank location three (3) or more days per week.

If there’s anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants.

Benefits:

Our approach to benefits and total rewards considers our team members’ whole selves and what may be needed to thrive in and outside work. That's why our benefits are designed to help you and your family boost your health, protect your financial security and give you peace of mind. Our benefits include the following:

• Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)
• Basic term and optional term life insurance
• Short‑term and long‑term disability
• Pregnancy disability and parental leave
• 401(k) and employer‑funded retirement plan
• Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)
• Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities
• Adoption assistance
• Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law

Review our full benefits available by employment status here.

U.S. Bank is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status, and other factors protected under applicable law.

E-Verify

U.S. Bank participates in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security E-Verify program in all facilities located in the United States and certain U.S. territories. The E-Verify program is an Internet‑based employment eligibility verification system operated by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Learn more about the E-Verify program.

Pay Range: $111,605.00 - $131,300.00

U.S. Bank will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment. U.S. Bank conducts background checks consistent with applicable local laws, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act as well as the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. U.S. Bank is subject to, and conducts background checks consistent with the requirements of Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDIA). In addition, certain positions may also be subject to the requirements of FINRA, NMLS registration, Reg Z, Reg G, OFAC, the NFA, the FCPA, the Bank Secrecy Act, the SAFE Act, and/or federal guidelines applicable to an agreement, such as those related to ethics, safety, or operational procedures.

Applicants must be able to comply with U.S. Bank policies and procedures including the Code of Ethics and Business Conduct and related workplace conduct and safety policies.

Posting may be closed earlier due to high volume of applicants.