Sr. Cybersecurity Engineer

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

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Job Description

Position Summary:
Visa’s Value Added Services (VAS) organization is seeking a Cybersecurity Engineer to support and manage its security engineering processes and testing efforts internally as well as those performed by Visa’s Cybersecurity team. The individual will review findings from various security tools (Qualys, CheckMarx, Sonatype, Prsima Cloud etc.) and will coordinate the dissemination of results to project teams and coordinate resolution of High, Medium and Low findings. The individual will be responsible for creating and distributing weekly/monthly/ad-hoc reports to all layers of management.

Essential Functions

Security Governance: Supervise all Security Governance activities for VAS and assist in updating the VAS Security Dashboard with the latest information.

Reporting: Create and disseminate reports (weekly, monthly, ad-hoc) as required to management and executive management.

Exception Reconciliation: Participate in Exception reconciliation meetings with Information Security Assurance and assist in remediation discussions as required.

Security Testing: Coordinate scheduling and execution of security tests, including CheckMarx, Qualys, Nexus IQ, and Pentests, and disseminate test results to project teams in a timely or automated manner.

Finding Resolution: Create Features for Security Finding resolution by regularly scheduled tag up with Product Development teams and utilize JIRA ticketing system for Finding and Exception Management.

Audit Coordination: Assist Audit Coordinator in drafting exceptions, escalating issues, and managing open audit findings. This includes holding regular status meetings to provide status on remediation to Head of VAS Security.

Control Reviews: Proactively institute reviews of current environment controls to identify possible weaknesses that could result in audit findings.

Interfacing: Interface with varying levels within the organization, including Directors and Executive Management, to ensure effective communication and collaboration.

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:
5+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 8+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications:
6 or more years of work experience with a Bachelors Degree or 4 or more years of relevant experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or up to 3 years of relevant experience with a PhD
Security Expertise: A strong background in Information security is essential.
SSDLC Knowledge: A solid understanding of the SSDLC process is necessary.
Pentest Acumen: Knowledge of the Application Security Pentest is required.
Experience: A minimum of 5 years’ experience working as a Security Engineer or Risk Analyst or Security Auditor in an IT-audit environment is needed.
Project Management: Exposure to project management experience is mandatory.
Analytical Skills: Must demonstrate strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
Communication Skills: Excellent written and verbal communication, along with interpersonal skills, is crucial.
Independence: The ability to work independently with minimal supervision and manage multiple simultaneous projects with deadlines is required.
Attention to Detail: Must be extremely detail-oriented, conscientious, thorough, and accurate.
Technical Proficiency: Expertise with Code Review tools, Pentest and SCA tools along with MS Office applications (Excel, PowerPoint, Word), SharePoint, and document control systems is necessary.
Collaboration: The ability to collaborate professionally with various levels of management is important.
Regulatory Knowledge: Strong knowledge of COBIT, FFIEC, Sarbanes-Oxley (SOC), PCI-DSS, and SSAE 16 is required.
Influence: Must have