# Cyber Security Engineer **Company**: Visa **Location**: Foster City, CA **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $180,600.00 to $289,300.00 USD per year **Category**: Security **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://visa.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Visa/job/US---Foster-City-CA/Cyber-Security-Engineer---Sr-Consultant-level_REF078642W-1?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_2097c9f7-059 ## Description Visa’s Cyber Security team is seeking a Cyber Security Engineer to design, build, and operate large-scale, cloud-native and AI-driven security platforms that protect Visa’s global brand, networks, products, and data. This role combines hands-on engineering, automation-first security design, and technical leadership in a highly dynamic, high-impact environment. The ideal candidate is a strong security engineer and problem solver with deep experience in Python-based services, cloud security engineering, API-driven architectures, and automation, and who is excited to apply GenAI and autonomous agent technologies to modern security challenges. **Key Responsibilities:** **Security Engineering & Platform Development:** - Design, develop, and operate large-scale cyber security platforms that deliver detection, prevention, and response capabilities across cloud and hybrid environments. - Build cloud-native, API-first security services using Python and modern web service frameworks. - Develop and expand security integration frameworks to interconnect SIEM, CSPM, CNAPP, IAM, network security, and threat intelligence platforms. - Drive security automation to minimize manual intervention and accelerate incident response workflows. **GenAI & Agentic Security Capabilities:** - Design and implement GenAI-powered security workflows, including: - Autonomous agents for cloud misconfiguration analysis, policy validation, and remediation recommendations - AI-assisted threat triage, alert summarization, and root-cause analysis - Intelligent enrichment of security signals using applied threat intelligence - Build and operate agentic systems that can reason across telemetry, policies, and infrastructure state to propose or execute remediation actions safely. - Evaluate and adopt emerging LLM, agent orchestration, and AI governance frameworks for enterprise-grade security use cases. - Ensure secure, compliant, and auditable use of GenAI, including data handling, prompt safety, access controls, and model risk considerations. **Cloud Security & Automation:** - Engineer and enforce cloud security controls across AWS, Azure, and/or GCP in large-scale enterprise environments. - Implement Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and automation frameworks to provision and manage security controls using tools such as Terraform. - Drive Policy-as-Code and Guardrails, authoring and maintaining policies using OPA/Rego or Sentinel, AWS Service Control Policies (SCP), Azure Policy, GCP Organization Policies. - Integrate GitOps-based promotion pipelines (dev → test → prod) with secure remote state management and drift detection. **Threat Detection, Response & Posture Management:** - Reduce time-to-detect and time-to-remediate by automating threat intelligence ingestion and correlation, sensor enrichment and contextual risk scoring. - Design and operate cloud security posture management (CSPM/CNAPP) capabilities using platforms such as Wiz, Prisma Cloud, or Microsoft Defender for Cloud. - Work across multiple security domains including cloud firewalls and security groups, DDoS protection, Network proxies, Cloud-native SIEM platforms. **Architecture, Innovation & Leadership:** - Lead technical design discussions and translate business requirements into secure, scalable architectures. - Conduct proof-of-concepts (POCs) for new technologies, tools, and architectures, evaluate feasibility and drive production adoption. - Stay current with emerging cloud, security, and AI technologies, proactively assessing their applicability within Visa. - Act as a technical leader and mentor, raising the engineering and security maturity of the team. - Contribute to project planning, including cost estimation, timelines, and risk assessment for new security initiatives. **Qualifications:** - 8+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 5 years of experience with an Advanced Degree. - Preferred Qualifications: 9 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or 7 or more relevant years of experience with an Advanced Degree. - Cloud & Security Expertise: Strong domain expertise in cloud security engineering within multi-cloud enterprise environments. - GenAI, Automation & Engineering: Demonstrated experience building GenAI solutions and autonomous agents for cloud security engineering or security operations. - Operational & Leadership Skills: Ability to independently drive POCs, own implementations end-to-end, and transition solutions into production. **Benefits:** - Comprehensive benefits package including Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k), FSA/HSA, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, and Wellness Program. **Salary:** - The estimated salary range for this position is $180,600.00 to $289,300.00 USD per year. ## Skills ### Required - Python - cloud security engineering - API-driven architectures - automation - GenAI - autonomous agent technologies ### Nice to have - cloud security - security operations - LLM - agent orchestration - AI governance --- Source: [Apply at visa.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com](https://visa.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Visa/job/US---Foster-City-CA/Cyber-Security-Engineer---Sr-Consultant-level_REF078642W-1?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)