[Hiring] Lead Information Security Engineer @U.S. Bank

Role Description

U.S. Bank is seeking the position of Lead Information Security Engineer – Cybersecurity in Charlotte, North Carolina.

• Implement and support security solutions and technologies to protect data/assets from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, destruction, modification, or disruption.
• Provide security oversight and risk management on IS projects.
• Set security design guidelines, frameworks, and models.
• Identify new security issues and risks; develop mitigation plans.
• Help identify and document security objectives.
• Provision, deploy, and manage applications across virtualized and cloud infrastructures (AWS, Azure, GCP), ensuring scalability, high availability, and security compliance.
• Design and automate infrastructure using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, and Azure, reducing manual provisioning and enabling reliable Infrastructure-as-Code practices.
• Apply cloud security principles by configuring elastic network security, IAM roles, policies, and PaaS-native security constructs, ensuring compliance with enterprise and industry standards.
• Design, develop, and test end-to-end features in object-oriented languages (Python), applying programming best practices.
• Engineer and manage Docker containers and Kubernetes clusters, ensuring scalable, fault-tolerant, and cloud-native deployments.
• Integrate security tools with CI/CD pipelines to automate vulnerability scanning, compliance checks, and secure delivery.
• Implement observability solutions using ELK Stack, Splunk, proactive monitoring, and incident response.
• Collaborate in Agile/Scrum teams using JIRA for backlog tracking and Git-based workflows for code reviews and version control.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Information Systems, or Computer Information Systems: Cybersecurity.
• 5 years of progressive post-baccalaureate experience as a Software Developer, Software Engineer, or related.

Requirements

• 5 years of experience with designing, developing, testing, and deploying scalable applications using Python.
• Following Agile/Scrum methodologies.
• Participating in code reviews and system design discussions.
• Building CI/CD pipelines to automate builds, testing, and deployments, reducing release cycle times.
• Implementing AWS and Azure cloud solutions.
• Automating infrastructure provisioning and configuration management.
• Developing and maintaining containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Enhancing system security through IAM, SSO, MFA, and policy management.
• Implementing centralized monitoring and logging solutions using ELK Stack, Splunk, and AWS CloudWatch.
• Authoring automation scripts in Python, Bash, and PowerShell.
• Utilizing AWS, Azure, GCP, REST APIs, Microservices, Git, Bitbucket, JIRA, and Confluence.

Benefits

• 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.