Senior Cybersecurity Engineer IAM

The Senior Cybersecurity Engineer IAM is responsible for designing implementing and operating identity and access management controls across the Pismo platform ensuring compliance with Pismo Visa Corporate Identity & Access Technical Security Requirements.

This role operates at platform and architecture level supporting multicloud and hybrid environments and focuses on building secure automated and auditable access models for human and nonhuman identities. The position partners closely with Cloud Security Platform Engineering API DevSecOps and GRC teams to embed leastprivilege zerotrust and automationfirst IAM practices across a regulated multitenant payments environment.

In addition to traditional IAM responsibilities this role provides security and governance oversight for AIenabled identity use cases ensuring that AI systems agents and automation interacting with identities comply with Internal AI Governance standards GenAI & Agentic Systems requirements and Corporate IAM Technical and Design requirements.

Qualifications :

Basic Qualifications:
5 years of relevant work experience with a Bachelors Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters MBA JD MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD OR 8 years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications:
5 years of relevant work experience with a Bachelors Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters MBA JD MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD OR 8 years of relevant work experience.
8 years of cybersecurity experience with deep specialization in Identity & Access Management (IAM).
Proven experience operating at Senior / Consultant level influencing IAM architecture standards and governance decisions.
Experience supporting financial services payments or regulated environments
Multicloud IAM Architecture (Mandatory)
Strong handson experience designing and operating IAM across multicloud environments including AWS and hybrid/federated cloud models.
Ability to design scalable permission models across cloud platforms including:
Cloudnative roles and permission sets
Leastprivilege and separationofduties enforcement
Human and nonhuman identities (workloads service accounts)
Permission Design & Access Modeling
Deep understanding of permission structures including:
Rolebased (RBAC) and attributebased (ABAC) access models
IAMgoverned access roles and entitlement cataloging
Temporary justintime and breakglass access patterns
Ability to design access models that reduce audit scope review volume and operational risk.
IAM Automation & Engineering (Critical Requirement)
Strong experience implementing IAM automation including:
Automated provisioning and deprovisioning (JML lifecycle)
Access revalidation and certification automation
Autoremediation of noncompliant permissions
Experience integrating IAM controls with CI/CD pipelines and InfrastructureasCode (IaC).
Proven ability to codify IAM policies and controls using automation frameworks.
Coding & Scripting Skills
Handson coding experience to support IAM automation and integrations including:
Python or equivalent scripting languages
Use of APIs and SDKs to manage identities roles and entitlements
Automation via IaC tools (e.g. Terraformbased IAM definitions)
Ability to build reusable auditable and scalable IAM automation components
Privileged Access & Cloud Governance
Experience designing and governing privileged access across cloud platforms.
Ability to enforce timebound auditable privileged access aligned with leastprivilege principles.
Strong understanding of cloud governance roles required for vulnerability scanning configuration

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 145300.00 to 232700.00 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