Associate Cybersecurity Engineer – Applied Cryptography

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

As a key member of the Applied Cryptography team, the Associate Cybersecurity Engineer will focus on supporting the designing, implementing, and managing Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) solutions to enhance our organization's data security posture. The successful candidate will be responsible for preparing detailed enrollment and integration documentation specific to various Visa applications, ensuring seamless integration into our PKI-enabled solutions, and Supporting Daily PKI activities and Sr staff and engineers with operational tasks.

Essential Functions:

• Be part of a global Applied Cryptograhpy team supporting PKI infrastructure, operations and critical services.

• Provide Level 1 Support supporting the design and implementation of complex encryption requirements.

• develop skills and knowledge to be recognized as a subject matter expert and contributor to PKI and encryption technologies.

• Support the design, propose and review new encryption solutions & implementation, and provide functional and technical support for program, project and core needs.

• Evaluates current global and technology specific processes to determine process improvements, and how best to gain more effectiveness and efficiency.

• Support the review, update and creation of encryption policies, procedures and technical security requirements in collaboration with the Security Architecture teams.

• Takes a supporting role with coordinating internal / external industry audits in collaboration with Visa internal teams.

• Takes a supporting role in Reporting & implementing changes needed for industry compliance.

• Takes a supporting role in Reporting to management industry trends and recommendations.

• Takes a supporting role in maintaining and supporting of multiple PKI implementations and technologies.

• Participate in projects to deploy new PKI applications and services.

• Support oncall and after hours certificate requirements.

• Ability to support and work non-traditional work hours, not limited to weekends, and evenings.

• Support Applied Cryptography team in providing  Asymmetric and symmetric encryption subject matter expertise.

• Assist with design and implement robust PKI solutions tailored to meet the organization's security requirements.

• Support the development and maintenance  of comprehensive documentation for PKI enrollment, management and integration processes for Visa applications, ensuring clarity and ease of understanding for stakeholders.

• Collaborate closely with application developers, system administrators, and other stakeholders to ensure PKI solutions are effectively integrated and maintained.

• Stay current with industry trends, standards, and best practices related to PKI and data security, and proactively propose enhancements to existing solutions.

• Troubleshoot and resolve PKI-related issues, ensuring minimal disruption to business operations.

• Participate in security assessments and audits to validate the effectiveness of PKI implementations and identify areas for improvement.

• Support Applied Cryptography Operational task, that include health checks, patching and key ceremonies.

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

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:
•Bachelors degree, OR 3+ years of relevant work experience

Preferred Qualifications:
•2 or more years of work experience
•Basic Coding skills.
•Knowledge of Industry certificate requirements.
•Strong experience with Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) and NIST Special Publications.
•Solid experience with Cybersecurity strategies and frameworks to protect data assets.
•Seasoned Engineer on Key Management and Hardware Security Modules (HSM).
•Knowledge on application design and development.
•Experience with Secure Development Lifecycle methodologies, Agile based methodologies.
•Strong understanding of Cryptographic technologies, includi