Director of Security Configuration Automation & Engineering

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The Director of Security Configuration Automation & Engineering is responsible for defining and executing the strategy, delivery, and ongoing management of security configuration enforcement capabilities across the enterprise. This leader oversees security engineering and automation initiatives that reduce risk, strengthen security posture, and enable business and technology teams to operate securely at scale.

As a member of the Information Security Posture and Configuration Management leadership team, this role partners closely with security, technology, risk, and business stakeholders to translate identified security risks into effective engineering solutions. The successful candidate will lead a team responsible for developing automation capabilities, driving configuration management improvements, and ensuring security controls align with regulatory, compliance, and audit requirements in a highly regulated environment. This role combines strategic leadership, technical depth, and strong relationship management to deliver measurable security outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and execute the strategy and roadmap for security configuration automation and engineering capabilities across the enterprise.
• Lead security engineering and automation initiatives that improve configuration enforcement, risk reduction, and operational efficiency.
• Partner with Security, Technology Services, Engineering, Risk, Finance, and platform teams to identify control gaps, remove barriers to execution, and drive remediation outcomes.
• Translate security risks and posture management findings into scalable engineering solutions and automation opportunities.
• Drive implementation of preventive and detective security controls, including policy-as-code, pipeline security checks, configuration baselines, monitoring enhancements, and other security enforcement mechanisms.
• Evaluate and prioritize automation, configuration management, and security engineering investments using risk, business value, and cost-benefit analysis.
• Establish success metrics, operational reporting, and performance measures for security automation capabilities.
• Build, develop, and retain a high-performing team of security engineers, including coaching, career development, and succession planning.
• Foster strong partnerships across security and technology organizations to drive accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Ensure security technologies and controls support regulatory, compliance, governance, and audit obligations.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 10 or more years of progressive experience in information security or related technology disciplines, with a demonstrated record of success in senior security roles.
• Five or more years of people leadership experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Professional certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CISA, CRISC, or related security certifications.
• Experience leading security engineering, security architecture, security operations, or security technology management functions.
• Proven success delivering enterprise-scale security engineering and automation initiatives.
• Strong knowledge of configuration management, posture management, and security control automation.
• Hands-on understanding of security engineering principles and the ability to evaluate technical tradeoffs and implementation approaches.
• Experience with cloud, on-premises, and SaaS security configuration and enforcement technologies.
• Strong understanding of modern security risks including cloud, identity, data, and AI security.
• Experience implementing preventive and detective security controls and automation capabilities.
• Background in DevOps, infrastructure automation, process improvement, security consulting, or related disciplines.
• Experience operating in highly regulated, audit-driven environments.
• Experience with enterprise reporting and analytics tools such as Tableau or Power BI.
• Strong leadership, communication, relationship-building, and problem-solving skills with the ability to influence across the organization.

Location Expectation

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.

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.