Cybersecurity Engineer Pismo

The Cybersecurity Engineer Cloud is responsible for designing implementing and operating security controls that protect cloudnative platforms and workloads across public cloud environments (AWS Azure GCP). The role partners closely with engineering DevOps and architecture teams to ensure cloud services are secure by design compliant with regulatory requirements and resilient at scale.

This position combines handson engineering security architecture and riskbased decisionmaking within complex distributed and regulated environments.

In addition to cloud security responsibilities this role provides security oversight and engineering support for AIenabled capabilities used across the Pismo platform. The engineer ensures that adoption of Artificial Intelligence and Large Language Models (LLMs) is aligned with Visa security controls Pismo dataprotection principles and global regulatory expectations.

Qualifications :

Basic Qualifications:
2 years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree OR 5 years of relevant work experience

Preferred Qualifications:
3 or more years of work experience with a Bachelors Degree or more than 2 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters MBA JD MD)
5 years of experience in cybersecurity with handson responsibility for cloud or platform security.
Demonstrated experience securing production workloads across multiple cloud providers (AWS Azure and/or GCP).
Experience operating in regulated or highavailability environments is strongly preferred.
Multicloud Security Expertise (Core Requirement)
Proven ability to design review and implement security controls across multicloud environments including:
Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM) leastprivilege access and workload identity
Network segmentation servicetoservice authentication and mTLS
Cloud encryption models and key management (KMS HSM certificate authorities)
Experience with Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) and misconfiguration detection.
Understanding of cloudnative logging monitoring and detection capabilities
Infrastructure Container & Platform Security

Handson experience securing:
Kubernetes and container platforms
Container image scanning and runtime security
InfrastructureasCode (Terraform CloudFormation ARM)
Ability to embed security controls into CI/CD pipelines and platform guardrails.
Familiarity with configurationdrift detection and continuous compliance.
Application & Data Protection

Strong understanding of:
API security (OAuth/OIDC tokenbased auth)
Applicationlevel encryption tokenization and hashing
Data protection across storage database and filesystem layers
Ability to support secure software development lifecycle (SSDLC) practices including SAST SCA and SBOM

Risk Compliance & Governance:
Working knowledge of security and compliance frameworks such as PCI DSS ISO 27001 SOC 2 GDPR or NIST.
Ability to translate security findings into riskbased recommendations for engineering and leadership.
Experience partnering with architecture risk and compliance teams

Tools Technologies & Certifications (Preferred):
Experience with cloudsecurity tooling (e.g. CSPM container security IAM platforms).
Cloud or security certifications are preferred but not mandatory including:
CCSK / CCSP
AWS Azure or GCP Security certifications
CISSP or equivalent
Continuous learning mindset aligned with evolving multicloud security practices.
Deep Knowledge of LLM Platforms (Mandatory)
Demonstrated handson and architectural knowledge of enterprisegrade AI and LLM platforms including:
Anthropic Claude
OpenAI (ChatGPT GPT APIs enterprise offerings)
Comparable LLM providers and managed AI services

This includes understanding:
Platform security models and sharedresponsibility boundaries
APIbased consumption vs managed SaaS usage
Enterprise controls for data handling logging and access enforcement

Additional Information :

Work Hours: Varies upon the needs of the department.

Travel Requirements: This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.

Mental/Physical Requirements: This position will be performed in an office setting.  The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk communicate in person and by telephone frequently operate standard office equipment such as telephones and computers.

Visa is an EEO Employer.  Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin sexual orientation gender identity disability or protected veteran status.  Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.

Visa will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable local law including the requirements of Article 49 of the San Francisco Police Code.

U.S. APPLICANTS ONLY: The estimated salary range for this position is 123700.00 to 191300.00 USD per year which may include potential sales incentive payments (if applicable). Salary may vary depending on job-related factors which may include knowledge skills experience and addition this position may be eligible for bonus and equity. Visa has a comprehensive benefits package for which this position may be eligible that includes Medical Dental Vision 401 (k) FSA/HSA Life Insurance Paid Time Off and Wellness Program.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time