Cybersecurity Engineer - Data Protection
Foster City, CA

Job Description

Visa operates the world's largest retail electronic payments network and is one of the most recognized global financial services brands. Visa facilitates global commerce through the transfer of value and information among financial institutions, merchants, consumers, businesses and government entities.

We offer a range of branded payment product platforms, which our financial institution clients use to develop and offer credit, charge, deferred debit, prepaid and cash access programs to cardholders. Visa's card platforms provide consumers, businesses, merchants and government entities with a secure, convenient and reliable way to pay and be paid in 170 countries and territories.

The Security Engineer - Data Protection will work as a member of the Global CyberSecurity Architecture team whose team is focused on improving decision-making through collaboration with management, staff and customers on technology strategy, enterprise architecture, and investments in strategic technology.

* Manage the life cycle of security technologies.


* Works closely with the other technology architects to ensure that security is properly provisioned in their technology domains.


* Assist other technology architects in defining the variance processes and making variance decisions.


* Evaluates and assess risk as part of the life-cycle analysis.


* Creation and maintenance of enterprise security standards applicable to all technologies in the portfolio.


* Participates in management of customer satisfaction, best practices and benchmarking


* Assists in the evaluation of overall risk for IT systems and the data they contain and process, accounting for the people, processes, and technologies that provide security controls.


* Assists in the audit process.


* Advises leadership on Information Security issues, systems, processes, products, and services.


* Maintains oversight of the design and implementation of IT systems to ensure appropriate and effective security controls are included.


* BS in computer science with 3 years of experience OR MS in computer science


* Demonstrated ability to integrate various security & data protection technologies and controls into a cohesive architecture that sufficiently mitigates risk to the company.


* Deep technical understanding and experience with security technologies including data encryption, intrusion detection/prevention, event correlation, secure application development, etc.


* Thorough understanding of the security controls provided in common platforms and applications in the corporate environment including Unix, Linux, Windows, IBM Mainframe (zTPF, MVS), Oracle, MS SQL Server Microsoft Outlook, J2EE and .NET applications, etc.


* Familiarity with hosted and cloud services, especially Seas and Iasi services, and the related security implications and control approaches.


* Experience with applicable control frameworks and compliance mandates.


* Solid problem solving and analytical skills



Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.