# Director, Security Engineer

**Company**: Capital One
**Location**: McLean, VA, VA
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $269,100 - $307,200 for McLean, VA: Director, Security Engineer $244,700 - $279,200 for Plano, TX: Director, Security Engineer $244,700 - $279,200 for Richmond, VA: Director, Security Engineer
**Category**: Security
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are seeking a Director, Security Engineer to lead our team of security engineers in building and scaling enterprise security platforms and tooling. As a Director, Security Engineer, you will be responsible for leading multiple teams of security engineers, establishing the long-term vision, strategy, and roadmap for security automation, detection, and infrastructure resilience.

Responsibilities:

- Lead multiple teams of security engineers responsible for building and scaling enterprise security platforms and tooling

- Establish the long-term vision, strategy, and roadmap for security automation, detection, and infrastructure resilience

- Partner with product and engineering executives to ensure secure design principles are embedded across technology lifecycles

- Oversee execution of programs that strengthen IAM, data protection, and cloud posture management capabilities

- Translate strategic security objectives into actionable engineering priorities and measurable outcomes

- Champion a culture of security innovation, continuous improvement, and operational excellence across engineering domains

- Develop future security leaders through mentorship, structured growth plans, and exposure to strategic decision-making

- Serve as the technical authority for emerging threats, translating risk intelligence into architectural blueprints and proactive mitigations

- Stay connected to the broader security engineering community outside Capital One, sharing and contributing where appropriate to stay aware of the industry

Basic Qualifications:

- High School Diploma, GED or Equivalent Certification

- At least 9 years of experience in cybersecurity or information technology

- At least 5 years of experience designing or implementing enterprise-scale security architecture in cloud environments

- At least 5 years of people management experience

Preferred Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s Degree

- 5+ years of experience building specialisation and expertise in a focused discipline of cybersecurity

- 7+ years of experience with CI/CD security integration, infrastructure as code, or serverless computing

- 8+ years of experience with security tools such as IAM, endpoint, vulnerability management, or network security technologies

- 10+ years of experience in cloud or infrastructure security engineering

- 10+ years of experience leading security engineering or platform teams in large-scale environments

- Proven ability to define and execute technical strategy aligned to organisation risk appetite

- Proven expertise in enterprise-scale architecture, automation, and secure systems design

- Experience advising executive stakeholders and influencing technology roadmaps

- Recognised thought leader or contributor to security engineering communities

- One or more professional certifications: CISSP, AWS Security Specialty, CIDPRO, or GIAC Cloud Security

- Experience in application security and software development in one or more programming languages such as Java, Python, JavaScript, etc.

Benefits:

- Comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial, and other benefits that support your total well-being

## Skills

### Required
- cybersecurity
- information technology
- cloud security
- security architecture
- people management

### Nice to have
- CI/CD security integration
- infrastructure as code
- serverless computing
- IAM
- endpoint
- vulnerability management
- network security technologies
- cloud security engineering
- security engineering leadership

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