Lead Security Engineer

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**Job Description**

U.S. Bank recently announced one of its larger investments in modernizing its technology to migrate its infrastructure and application portfolio to the cloud, partnering with its primary cloud provider, Microsoft Azure. U.S. Bank is committed to improving the speed at which it brings innovation to its customers, and cloud computing expedites that time-to-market while providing a new level of security over data, financial assets and customer privacy. To complete this technology transformation and maintain this new way of working into the future, U.S. Bank is seeking enthusiastic talent in a variety of roles-many of which will be hands-on innovators in this transformative work for both U.S. Bank and its customers.

The candidate is a self-motivated individual who can collaborate with a team and across the organization. The candidate takes responsibility of the software artifacts produced adhering to U.S. Bank standards to ensure minimal impact to the customer experience. The candidate will be adept with the agile software development lifecycle and DevOps principles.

Responsibilities:

This role will be responsible for defining architecture solutions that meet or exceed security guidelines while enabling rapid software development. The Lead Security Engineer will work closely with the infrastructure and security operations teams to enhance security initiatives on-premises and in the cloud. You will be building out the **Security Center of Excellence!**

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**What you Will do:**

As a Lead Engineer with security and **software development background** who will focus on supporting our platform teams (Tools, Cloud, Data, and Operations) with a strong security focus. You will own design and implement specific joint efforts with our security organization and one or more platform teams to support the bank's overall modernization objectives, while building out the **Security Center of Excellence.**

**Essential Responsibilities:**

Responsible for helping to build out the **Security Center of Excellence**

Takes ownership of all thing's security in guiding, coaching and mentoring development teams

Considers scalability, reliability and performance of systems/contexts affected when defining technical designs, with Security at the forefront

Mentors Development teams in creating sound design and coding decisions, keeping customer and partner experience in the forefront

Takes feedback from code reviews and applies changes to meet security standards. Conducts code reviews to provide guidance on security engineering best practices and compliance

Accountable for ensuring all aspects of product development follow compliance and security best practices

Exhibits relentless focus in software security engineering standards embedded into development standards

Embraces emerging technology opportunities and contributes to the best practices in support of the bank's technology transformation

Contributes to a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement

Reviews tasks critically and ensures they are appropriately prioritized and sized for incremental delivery

Anticipates and communicates blockers and delays before they require escalation

**Basic Qualifications:**

Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience

6 years of relevant experience

**Required Skills/Experience:**

Has hands-on Security Engineer with a **coding background**

Experience with **large, distributed, microservice** based ecosystems

Experience with high-volume, low-latency event management

**CISSP** **, CISA or other Security Certifications**

Experience in enterprise-scale logging, test data management and security

Develop teams to envision and code with security in mind

Possesses expertise in performance, scalability, enterprise system architecture, and engineering best practices in an agile environment

Several years of experience with **AWS, AZURE or GCP** cloud offerings

Experience on security teams supporting large organizations

Knowledge of best practices for protecting sensitive data in cloud environments

Knowledge of financial regulations and security control requirements

Excellent communication, presentation, and leadership skills; proven collaboration and influencing skills

Proficient understanding of **algorithms, data structures, architectural design patterns and best practices**

Excellent communication, presentation, leadership, problem-solving and analytical skills

Proven collaboration and influencing skills

**Preferred Skills/Experience:**

Has broad knowledge in security as a whole and can mentor

Strong understanding to **Security practices** and standards

Adept with agile software development lifecycle and DevOps principles

Thorough understanding of the software development lifecycle and a passion to improve the developer experience

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**Benefits:**

Take care of yourself and your family with U.S. Bank employee benefits. We know that healthy employees are happy employees, and we believe that work/life balance should be easy to achieve. That's why we share the cost of benefits and offer a variety of programs, resources and support you need to bring your full self to work and stay present and committed to the people who matter most - your family.

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U.S. Bank is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating a diverse workforce. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status, among other factors.