Senior Security Engineering Leader (Cloud & DevSecOps)

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

Job summary

Capital One in Richmond, VA seeks a Sr. Manager, Security Engineer to lead security architecture and DevSecOps initiatives across enterprise platforms.

You will drive encryption strategy, data protection, and cryptographic policy engineering, partnering with engineering teams to embed security by design. You'll architect scalable solutions, develop automation for continuous detection and remediation, and mentor senior engineers while influencing roadmaps and standards.

Qualifications

• Leadership experience with teams (≥3 years) in security.
• 7+ years in cybersecurity or IT.
• 3+ years leading security initiatives.
• Experience with encryption, key management and cryptographic policy.

Responsibilities

• Define technical strategy for encryption and data protection.
• Architect scalable data protection and key management solutions.
• Lead security reference architectures and reusable control patterns.
• Design automation frameworks for continuous detection and remediation.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to embed security into platforms.

Skills

Security leadership

Cloud security

CI/CD security

Infrastructure as Code

Cryptography

Programming languages (Java/Python)

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

KMS/HSM

Job description

Capital One in Richmond, VA seeks a Sr. Manager, Security Engineer to lead security architecture and DevSecOps initiatives across enterprise platforms.

You will drive encryption strategy, data protection, and cryptographic policy engineering, partnering with engineering teams to embed security by design. You'll architect scalable solutions, develop automation for continuous detection and remediation, and mentor senior engineers while influencing roadmaps and standards.