Sr. Cybersecurity Engineer - Security Architecture

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.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

Job Description

Cybersecurity is at the beating heart of our culture. Our diligence and expertise are what makes us the undisputed leader in electronic payments. We’ve made it our priority to create a top-tier Security Architecture team, poised to defend us against any potential cyber threats. We’re looking for those of you who are inherently driven and fascinated by the art and science of cyber defense.

As a leader in global payments, Visa faces unique and complex cybersecurity challenges. The rapid pace of technological advancement necessitates a forward-looking approach to cybersecurity that goes beyond traditional methods. Maintaining our leadership position in cybersecurity requires continuously researching and prototyping new security technologies. As Senior Cybersecurity Engineer, you’ll work with a group of enterprise and application security architects, along with security researchers to lead the advanced prototyping to accelerate time-to-market of new and exciting cybersecurity research and innovative ideas and proposals.

We’ll arm you with the very best tools and tech so that you can deliver top notch results. Development underpins job fulfilment at Visa. As Senior Cybersecurity Engineer, you’ll be enthused by getting stuck into various defense and security sector related projects, as well as the chance to work with people from a range of disciplines, as well as colleagues and clients at every level.

This is a hybrid role with half of your time devoting to performing security architecture review and half time devoting to developing proof-of-concept prototypes for innovative Cybersecurity tools and solutions.

So, what do we expect of your day to day?

Essential Functions

• Develop proof-of-concept prototypes for promising cybersecurity solutions, ensuring alignment with Visa’s existing security architecture and strategic goals.
• Identify and assess innovative cybersecurity tools, companies, and concepts that can enhance Visa’s security architecture.
• Work closely with internal stakeholders, including the Cybersecurity Product Development team, to transition prototypes into fully operational products and solutions.
• Continuously monitor and analyze emerging cybersecurity trends, technologies, and practices that have the potential to impact Visa’s security posture.
• Build automation to Integrate and orchestrate existing security tools so we can quickly resolve damaging malware infections.
• Independently formulate direction, design or oversight for the development of major Enterprise-wide programs or plans that have significant impact on the success of the organization
• Be responsible for overall planning, direction and oversight of multiple projects, products, services or functions.
• Stay up to date on new security tools & techniques in the information security space.
• Conduct proof of concept activities with key business users in support of advanced use cases.
• Automate security tools and processes ensuring innovation and advancement strategies that keep pace in the areas of access control, security-in-depth, secure transaction processing, secure coding practices for web and mobile applications.
• Be a product security champion by driving Security Architecture and Design/implementation/optimization for Web, API and Mobile backend applications across Visa.
• Engage in the initial requirements definition (including analysis of threats and risks and alignment with Visa security, Engineering, IT and Architecture standards).
• Conduct and facilitate security reviews, threat modelling including deep design reviews throughout the development lifecycle.
• You’ll be working on enabling/building security on various platforms and technologies which protect the applications from attacks like:
  • Payment processing platforms, Payment Wallet solutions, Consumer facing applications, COTS products deployed in house, public clouds, Issuer/Acquirer facing platforms and applications, white labelled solutions for partners.
  • zTPF, zOS, MVS, Linux, Windows, VMWare, Openstack, SDN, Public cloud like AWS, Google
  • Cybersecurity tools like IDS, SIEM, Tripwire, Taniu