Cyber Security Engineer

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.