Senior Security Architect & Automation Lead

Capital One; McLean (VA); Hybrid; USD 230,000 - 262,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Security Engineer 5 to lead enterprise security engineering efforts in a hybrid work environment. You will architect scalable security solutions across IAM, cloud infrastructure, and application layers, and define reference architectures used across multiple domains.

You will drive automation for detection, compliance and remediation while collaborating with platform, data and product teams. You will mentor engineers and advance security standards.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in cybersecurity or information technology.
• 4+ years designing or implementing enterprise-scale security in cloud envs.
• 3+ years building or automating security tooling and controls.

Responsibilities

• Architect scalable security solutions across IAM, cloud, endpoint and network layers.
• Define and lead implementation of security reference architectures and patterns.
• Design automation frameworks for detection, compliance and remediation.
• Partner with engineering teams to embed security into core platforms.
• Mentor senior engineers and raise security excellence.

Skills

Security architecture

DevSecOps

Cloud security

CI/CD security

Terraform

CloudFormation

IAM

Vulnerability management

Python

Java

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Security Certifications

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

CI/CD tooling

AWS IAM

Vulnerability scanners

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Security Engineer 5 to lead enterprise security engineering efforts in a hybrid work environment. You will architect scalable security solutions across IAM, cloud infrastructure, and application layers, and define reference architectures used across multiple domains.

You will drive automation for detection, compliance and remediation while collaborating with platform, data and product teams. You will mentor engineers and advance security standards.