Cybersecurity Analyst - Sr. Consultant - Red Team

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's Red Team pro-actively identifies weaknesses in Visa's security posture and recommends necessary controls and procedures to cost-effectively protect Visa services from intentional or inadvertent modification, disclosure or destruction. With this mission in mind, Visa's internal Red Team experts are engaged in covert operations that simulate adversarial threats and attacks in a timely manner. This is accomplished by performing internal and external ethical hacks of Visa applications and systems. Red members also help with design, development, and recommendation of security solutions to protect Visa proprietary/confidential data and systems. Assist with compliance objective. Provide guidance and direction for the logical protection of information systems assets to other functional units. Prepare reports regarding effectiveness of information security adherence and make recommendations for the adoption of new policies and procedures for Visa services.

As a member of Visa's Red team, provide technical expertise required to carry out internal and external ethical hacking exercises. Coordinate with other departments and teams to evolve information security alignment with company goals and objectives. Contribute and participate in all stages of a Red Team exercise including planning, reconnaissance, exploitation, post-exploitation, clean up, and remediation. Champion security research activities and teamwork required to carry out successful Red Team operations. Create and provide presentations to executive management highlighting outcomes of Red Team exercise and recommendations and timelines for remediation.

Essential Functions

• Conduct high risk and sensitive ethical hacks of internally and externally hosted applications globally according to scope defined by Red Team.

• Co-ordinate and execute system/network level advanced Red Team and ethical hacking exercises.

• Design and develop scripts, frameworks, and tools required for facilitating and executing complex undetectable attacks.

• Reviews results of network and application ethical hacks to determine severity of findings and to ensure proper remedies are applied.

• Performs penetration and remediation testing and reporting through the application of expert ethical hacking and penetration techniques in a fast-paced, highly technical environment. Identify network and system vulnerabilities and provide recommended counter measures or mitigating controls to reduce risk to an acceptable and manageable level.

• Provide accurate and timely reporting of findings and proposed remediation and mitigations.

• Coordinate Red team operational briefings and presentations to non-technical audience and executive management, as required.

• Provide technical support to Business Leader in identifying and streamlining new/existing protocols and tools used by the Red Team.

• Technical support could include, but not limited to the following: (1) Audit support & remediation, (2) Process Improvement, (3) Analysis & Reporting, (4) Cross Divisional Functional education, training and awareness, (5) Function/Methodology/Strategy advancement.

• Define and develop agenda for training and educating security professionals on advanced exploits, tools, and frameworks

• Perform research of emerging technologies and design frameworks and capabilities required to perform Red Team exercises of new technologies adopted by Visa.

• Requires comprehensive knowledge and mastery in assigned areas applying skills and competencies in challenging and complex situations.

• Recognized expert in the company. Only a few positions require such extensive knowledge and skill.

• Complete mastery of at least one technology domain and solid working knowledge of at least one other. For example, web applications, system exploitation, network-based attacks, payload development, reverse engineering, Mobile security, etc.

• May be involved in design phases of projects. May have professional certifications or affiliations.

• Able to work at an intermediate level when executing and improving work processes to ensure ac