Senior Info Security Engineer

At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions and enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed.  We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One.

Job Description

Implements and supports security solutions and technologies to protect data/assets from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, destruction, modification, or disruption. Provides project leadership, security oversight, and risk management on security projects. Sets security design guidelines, frameworks, and models. Works to identify new security issues and risks and is involved in developing mitigation plans. Helps identify and document security objectives. Participates in projects that develop new intellectual property. Trains/mentors members of the team. Builds relationships and trust across the organization. Evaluates and recommends new and emerging security products and technologies. Works to develop and interpret security policies and procedures. Supports acquisition and vendor risk assessment due diligence. Leads the building, deployment, and maintenance of security tools utilized by the insider threat program. Proactively seeks solutions to mitigate risk and clearly communicate risks to the appropriate stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the implementation, administration, and continuous improvement of data protection technologies, including DLP, Database Activity Monitoring, CASB, Encryption, Tokenization, and Data Classification solutions.
• Serve as the Level 3 Subject Matter Expert (SME) for cloud-hosted data protection platforms, providing advanced troubleshooting, operational support, and solution optimization.
• Design, deploy, and maintain security controls across AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, AKS, and EKS environments to safeguard sensitive data and workloads.
• Perform operational management activities including capacity planning, access reviews, licensing attestations, backup/recovery validation, failover testing, disaster recovery, and audit compliance.
• Monitor platform health, identify vulnerabilities, implement patches, certificate updates, and configuration changes to reduce security risk and improve resilience.
• Partner with infrastructure, database, network, platform engineering, compliance, risk, and audit teams to successfully deploy and support enterprise security solutions globally.
• Research emerging security technologies, evaluate vendors, conduct proof-of-concepts, and recommend enhancements to strengthen the organization’s data protection posture.
• Mentor and support junior engineers while developing technical documentation, operational procedures, reporting, and configuration management standards.

Basic Skills/Experience
- Typically a Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience
- Typically five or more years of relevant experience
- Advanced technical and functional subject matter expert knowledge across security domain areas

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Strong expertise in Data Protection, Cloud Security, Information Security Engineering, and Security Operations within large enterprise environments.
• Hands-on experience supporting SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS security solutions, including data scanning, database monitoring, data protection, and cloud-native security technologies.
• Advanced knowledge of AWS and Azure security services, cloud architecture security, and workload protection strategies.
• Experience securing Kubernetes environments, including container security, admission controls, runtime monitoring, secrets management, and encryption mechanisms.
• Knowledge of PCI DSS 4.0, SOX, GLBA, and other regulatory/security frameworks governing data protection, change management, and compliance controls.
• Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) security standards using Terraform, Bicep, or CloudFormation and integrating security guardrails into cloud-native architectures.
• Strong working knowledge of encryption, tokenization, database security, security monitoring, event correlation, vulnerability management, and defense-in-depth architectures.
• Excellent communication, documentation, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to support audits, influence technical teams, and translate security requirements into actionable solutions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting security technologies in the financial services industry.
• Professional certifications such as CISSP, CISA, GIAC, CCSP, AWS Security Specialty, or Azure Security Engineer Associate.
• Familiarity with Windows, Linux/Unix, databases, Big Data security platforms, Agile methodologies, Jira, ITIL, COBIT, and SDLC practices.
• Experience developing security metrics, executive reporting, and operational dashboards.

Location expectations 
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.

The salary range reflects figures based on the primary location, which is listed first. The actual range for the role may differ based on the location of the role. In addition to salary, U.S. Bank offers a comprehensive benefits package, including incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase 401(k) contribution and pension (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). Pay Range: $119,765.00 - $140,900.00

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.