Senior Security Configuration & Cloud Manager

U.S. Bank; Minneapolis (MN); On-site; USD 133,000 - 157,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)

401(k) and employer-funded retirement

Paid vacation and holidays

Job summary

U.S. Bank is seeking a Senior Security Configuration Manager to lead a team responsible for secure configuration across cloud, on-prem, and applications. You will define standards, mentor engineers, and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

The role emphasizes strategic program leadership and hands-on governance to embed security early in development and deployment processes. A strong track record in security leadership is essential.

Qualifications

• Five+ years leading technical security, infrastructure, cloud, or configuration teams.
• Experience defining and maintaining secure configuration standards across enterprise environments.
• Ability to partner with engineering teams and influence strategy and execution.
• Knowledge of security risk management, regulatory requirements, and compliance obligations.
• Certification such as CISSP or ITIL 4 is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of security configuration analysts and implementation resources.
• Build and execute the strategy and roadmap for the Configuration Implementation function.
• Define and standardize secure configuration requirements across infrastructure, cloud services, OS, applications, and security platforms.
• Develop and maintain secure configuration standards, technical controls, and implementation guidance.
• Translate security and compliance requirements into actionable technical configuration controls.
• Oversee configuration monitoring and scanning capabilities to identify drift and gaps.
• Partner with cloud, infrastructure, platform, application, and security engineering teams.
• Influence engineering practices to embed security requirements earlier in development.

Skills

Security leadership

Secure configuration management

Cloud security

Governance & compliance

Stakeholder management

Strategic program leadership

Security certifications (CISSP etc)

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

GitLab

Checkov

Chef

Artifactory

Azure Policy

AWS Service Control Policies

Tenable.io / similar tooling

Job description

U.S. Bank is seeking a Senior Security Configuration Manager to lead a team responsible for secure configuration across cloud, on-prem, and applications. You will define standards, mentor engineers, and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

The role emphasizes strategic program leadership and hands-on governance to embed security early in development and deployment processes. A strong track record in security leadership is essential.