Cloud Engineer, Security Technology Operations

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Job Description

The candidate selected for this role will help cloud security architects design, standardize, automate, and ultimately put the solutions into production and maintain their efficacy throughout the lifecycle. We are seeking a highly effective and collaborative engineer with a proven track record of operating various security technologies. The candidate selected for this role will help deliver security controls within AWS, GCP, and Azure to effectively manage risk within U.S. Bank’s information security practice, as part of the STO cloud team:

The role offers a hybrid/flexible schedule, which means there’s an in-office expectation of 3 or more days per week and the flexibility to work outside the office location for the other days at one of the following locations:

• Cincinnati, OH
• Minneapolis, MN
• Charlotte, NC

Responsibilities:

1. Following best practices and cybersecurity frameworks.
2. Ensuring continuous utility and complete coverage of cloud security controls.
3. Securing workloads in the cloud.
4. Finding areas of improvement for cloud security controls and related performance.
5. Continuous tuning, ongoing integration, feature expansion, reporting, validation, and monitoring of cloud security controls.
6. Collaborate with the Incident Response team to continuously improve the ability to rapidly detect, contain, investigate, eradicate, and recover from security incidents.
7. Work with customers involved in the logging requirement process, including (but not limited to) cloud security engineers, application teams, SIEM engineers, and security incident responders.
8. Maintain thorough understanding of cloud network and resource security fundamentals.
9. Maintain working knowledge of the regulatory landscape for public cloud and the implementation patterns required to be compliant.

Qualifications

Preferred Skills/Experience:

1. The ideal candidate will have a well-rounded and highly technical background with an intermediate understanding of operating security technologies and cloud security fundamentals.
2. The candidate should have familiarity with industry security frameworks and best practices (e.g., ITIL, NIST Cybersecurity Framework, COBIT, etc.).
3. Technical experience with networks, operating systems, applications and other aspects of information technology architecture.
4. Familiarity with the requirements impacting financial institutions (i.e., PCI-DSS, FISMA, GLBA, SOX, and GDPR).
5. Familiarity with the deployment of cloud native and third-party technologies to secure cloud platforms, e.g.: Cloud Workload Protection (CWPP), Cloud Security Platform Management (CSPM), and Workload Scanning solutions.
6. Demonstrable experience overcoming cloud migration security challenges.
7. Ability to successfully manage complex projects with numerous stakeholders across the organization.
8. Experience with balancing competing interests and requirements to deliver a working product.
9. Experience with communicating technical information to non-technical audiences and stakeholders at every level, including technical writing.
10. Experience with scripting skills in Python, Terraform, and/or YAML.
11. Experience in cloud migration and digital transformation.
12. Experience in an operational (i.e., on-call support) environment.
13. Demonstrated experience is working in a team-focused environment.
14. Preferred: at least one cloud-specific Associate/Professional certification and commitment to achieve a security-specific certification within six months (e.g., CISSP or CCSP) of starting date.
15. Preferred: Demonstrated experience with workflow management tools, such as Jira, is highly desirable.
16. Preferred: Experience working with Microsoft Defender.

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 (some may vary based on role, location or hours):

• 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

EEO is the Law

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.

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