Senior Cloud Security Engineer — Automation & IAM Lead

Capital One; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 179,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Incentives

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Security Engineer 4 to design and deliver automated controls across cloud and on‑prem environments. You will architect scalable IAM, data protection, and vulnerability management solutions while driving DevSecOps across Capital One's enterprise platforms.

This role focuses on cloud security engineering, security by design, and ongoing tooling improvements. Plano, TX offers a competitive salary with performance incentives.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma, GED or Equivalent Certification.
• 5+ years in cybersecurity or IT.
• 3+ years in a cloud environment.
• 2+ years designing automated security solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and delivery of platforms and automated controls across cloud and on‑prem environments.
• Architect and implement scalable IAM, endpoint, network, and data protection systems.
• Develop automation for vulnerability management, detection, and compliance monitoring.
• Serve as a technical advisor during incident response and forensics investigations.
• Partner with software, cloud and infrastructure teams to embed security by design.
• Evaluate and integrate new security technologies for interoperability and scale.
• Influence and codify engineering standards, patterns, and reusable modules.
• Support ongoing security tool investigations, analysis and break fixes.

Skills

Cloud security

Automation

IAM

Vulnerability mgmt

Incident response

Infra as code

CI/CD security

Security architecture

Java/Python/JS

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Security certifications

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

CI/CD pipelines

Endpoint security

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Security Engineer 4 to design and deliver automated controls across cloud and on‑prem environments. You will architect scalable IAM, data protection, and vulnerability management solutions while driving DevSecOps across Capital One's enterprise platforms.

This role focuses on cloud security engineering, security by design, and ongoing tooling improvements. Plano, TX offers a competitive salary with performance incentives.