Cybersecurity Analyst

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

Visa Technology & Operations LLC, a Visa Inc. company, needs a Cybersecurity Analyst (multiple openings) in Austin, TX to

• Create mobile security guidelines, requirements, and standards for mobile product development, as well as enterprise mobile deployment and proactively mitigate risks associated with information security.
• Analyze security gaps in mobile technologies and frameworks that lack standard validation methodologies and incorporate remediation practices to reduce risk posture of Visa products and assets.
• Develop tools and frameworks required performing advanced and complex mobile security assurance and ethical hacking activities.
• Research on mobile platform releases, capabilities and functionalities to understand and establish mobile security standards.
• Define, implement and scale consistent mobile security practices for all Visa technology projects throughout the planning and delivery cycles that assure that investments in IT generate business value, and mitigate the risks associated with information security.
• Integrate architectural risk assessment and threat modeling of large-scale enterprise applications and infrastructure into Software Development Lifecycle, to identify and reduce risk associated with information security in a timely manner.
• Ensure end-to-end security of Visa products by means of hands-on-testing, threat hypothesis, risk remediation advises and championing secure implementation efforts.
• Improve secure coding practices, application security requirements, automation, training, and metrics.
• Build strong cross-organizational relationships, and effectively influence staff across the IT organization, and broader enterprise.
• Collaborate with product development and solution teams proactively, to manage software security risk aligned with business goals.
• Collaborate with product and solution teams to achieve Global Information Security software security program objectives.
• Define a simplified security metrics approach that enables executive leaders, line leader, and operational staff to quickly take action on application security related risks.
• Collaborate with all internal and third-party application development teams to define an enterprise set of “reasonable” security controls that will protect company brand from real or perceived security breaches.
• Build secure products and standards around emerging technologies and fields lacking existing standards and security practices.
• In addition, develop and optimize processes to improve software development efficiency in the consumption of security development practices.
• Position reports to the Visa Austin, Texas office and may allow for partial telecommuting.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• Employer will accept a Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or a related field and 1 year of experience in the job offered or in a Cybersecurity Analyst-related occupation.
• Position requires:
• Python, C#, Java, JavaScript, Objective-C, C, C++, Objective-C, Java or Swift.
• OWASP Top 10 and CWE 25;
• Penetration testing, application risk assessment and risk categorization skills, including reverse-engineering, network interception and manipulation, offensive and defensive attacks, as well as database and cross-site scripting injection attacks.

Additional Information

Worksite: Austin, TX

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.

Travel Requirements: This position does not require travel.

Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting.  The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telepho