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Cybersecurity Engineer - Senior Consultant Level

Visa
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 13 Apr 2026
💰 $260,400/yr($162,500/yr$260,400/yr)

About the role

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world. Join Visa and do work that matters — to you, to your community, and to the world.

Progress starts with you.

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, BlackDuck, 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.
Responsibilities:

  • Perform Discovery Penetration Tests of Web Applications and APIs
  • Perform SSDLC Code reviews
  • Assist Product Development Teams with Design Reviews
  • Supervise all Security Governance activities for VAS
  • Assist in updating the VAS Security Dashboard with latest and greatest information
  • Create and disseminate reports (weekly, monthly, ad-hoc) as required to management and executive management
  • Participate in Exception reconciliation meetings with Information Security Assurance
  • Coordinate scheduling and execution of security tests, including CheckMarx, BlackDuck, and PEN tests
  • Create Features for Security Finding resolution by regularly scheduled tag up with Product Development teams.
  • Utilize JIRA ticketing system for Finding and Exception Management
  • Disseminate test results to project teams in a timely or automated manner
  • Assist remediation discussions as required
  • Escalate issues to Audit Coordinator as required
  • Proactively institute reviews of current environment controls so as to identify possible weaknesses that could result in audit findings.
  • Must use independent judgment and latitude in deciding that artifacts provided to audit are appropriate, within the scope, and delivered on time to the auditing body.
  • Facilitates audit meetings with Operations and Engineering staff to help manage the direction and ensure discussions stay within scope.
  • Assist Audit Coordinator in independent decision-making regarding what artifacts should be provided to audit, how processes and procedures should be communicated and effective oversight provided by this role.
  • Individual will function with minimal daily guidance from management.
  • Assist Audit Coordinator in management of open audit findings, from holding regular status meetings to provide status on remediation to Head of VAS SCoE, to identifying audit findings that are in risk of not meeting documented Target Date for remediation and escalating appropriately.
  • Candidate will interface with varying levels within the organization, including Directors and Executive Management.

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

8+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 5 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 2 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 11+ years of relevant work experience.

 

Preferred Qualifications:

9 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or 7 or more relevant years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 3 or more years of experience with a PhD
BA/BS degree required
Strong Security background
Pentest process knowledge

SSDLC process understanding knowledge
Minimum 5-8 years of experience working as an IT auditor or in IT-audit environment
Minimum 3-5 years Project Management experience
Must demonstrate strong analytical and problem solving skills
Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills
Ability to work independently with minimum supervision and handle multiple simultaneous projects with deadlines
Extremely detail oriented, conscientious, thorough and accurate
Expert with MS Office applications (Excel, PowerPoint, Word), SharePoint, document control systems.
Ability to collaborate in a professional manner with varying levels of management;
Advanced knowledge of Cobit, FFIEC, Sarbanes-Oxley, PCI-DSS, SSAE 16, NIST

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