Principal Associate, Cyber Security

Principal Associate, Cyber Security

Overview

Principal Associate, Cyber Security

At Capital One, you'll be part of a big group of makers, breakers, doers and disruptors, who love to solve real problems and meet real customer needs. We want you to be curious and ask “what if?” Capital One started as an information strategy company that specialized in credit cards, and we have become one of the most impactful and disruptive players in the industry

As part of the Cyber organization, you will build, operate, and continuously evolve the tooling that keeps a threat landscape current for every enrolled asset in the enterprise portfolio. You won't just consume intelligence, you will design and implement the systems that produce it. You will serve as the subject matter expert bridging threat intelligence, security engineering, and AI-driven automation, delivering a capability that every security team in the enterprise depends on before they begin an assessment.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain the multi-agent AI profiling platform, including agent logic, orchestration, prompt pipelines, confidence scoring, and QA thresholds to ensure continuous and accurate threat profile generation across all enrolled assets.

• Maintain the persistent, queryable record of current and historical threat profiles; ensure data integrity, and compliance with audit and retention requirements.

• Build and evolve a portal and API capabilities, including asset search, delta views, compliance gap exports, delta subscriptions, and system integrations, to meet consuming team needs without requiring manual fulfillment.

• Own the operational health of coverage commitments, monitoring freshness windows across all asset tiers, identifying gaps, and driving remediation before SLAs are breached.

• What You Will Bring

• Engineering Depth: The ability to build production-quality tooling; writing code, configure pipelines, and deploy features that security teams depend on at enterprise scale.

• AI/ML Fluency: Hands-on experience designing and operating AI agent workflows, including prompt engineering, multi-agent orchestration, output validation, and confidence-based QA gating.

• Threat Intelligence Expertise: Practical knowledge of how threat intelligence is structured, sourced, and operationalized.

• Security Breadth: Working knowledge across application security, cloud security, and compliance frameworks sufficient to conduct credible HITL review of platform and domain-level profiles.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree
• At least 3 years of experience in cybersecurity or information technology
• At least 2 years of experience evaluating, contributing to, or supporting development of cybersecurity capabilities

Preferred Qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience in application security, cloud security, and/or threat intelligence engineering

• 3+ years of experience designing or operating AI/ML pipelines or multi-agent systems in a security context

• 3+ years of experience with cybersecurity frameworks and concepts such as NIST CSF, MITRE ATT&CK, CMMC, FedRAMP, etc.

• 3+ years of experience performing analysis of or developing solutions for cyber threats, vulnerabilities, risks, or, events

• 3+ years of experience working on teams and presenting to stakeholders cybersecurity information such as metrics, threat intelligence, controls and/or requirements

• 2+ years of experience working in multi-cloud environments

• 2+ years of experience using security tools (e.g., Splunk, Crowdstrike, Qualys, or AWS Security Hub)

• 1+ years of experience developing or interpreting cybersecurity metrics or dashboards

• Demonstrated familiarity with industry governance or financial governance processes

• Experience with risk management concepts, including identifying threats, assessing vulnerabilities, and recommending mitigation strategies

• Ability to perform security incident analysis and assist with resolution, translating technical findings into clear, actionable reports for technical and non-technical stakeholders

• At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization, or offer any immigration related support for this position (e.g. H1B, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, F-1 CPT, J-1, TN, E-3, and O-1, or any other forms of work authorization that require immigration support from an employer).

• The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Capital One is willing to pay at the time of this posting. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.

• McLean, VA: $161,800 - $184,600 for Principal Associate, Cyber Security

• Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location, and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidate’s offer letter.

• This role is also eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI). Incentives could be discretionary or non discretionary depending on the plan.

• Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being. Learn more at the Capital One Careers website. Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.

• This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days.

• No agencies please. Capital One is an equal opportunity employer (EOE, including disability/vet) committed to non-discrimination in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Capital One promotes a drug-free workplace. Capital One will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable laws regarding criminal background inquiries, including, to the extent applicable, Article 23-A of the New York Correction Law; San Francisco, California Police Code Article 49, Sections 4901-4920; New York City’s Fair Chance Act; Philadelphia’s Fair Criminal Records Screening Act; and other applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations regarding criminal background inquiries.

• Capital One does not provide, endorse nor guarantee and is not liable for third-party products, services, educational tools or other information available through this site.

• Capital One Financial is made up of several different entities. Please note that any position posted in Canada is for Capital One Canada, any position posted in the United Kingdom is for Capital One Europe and any position posted in the Philippines is for Capital One Philippines Service Corp. (COPSSC).

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• Now’s your chance to learn about the job, show us who you are, share why you would be a great addition to the team and determine if Capital One is the place for you.

• Step 4 Decision

• The team will discuss — if it’s a good fit for us and you, we’ll make it official!

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