Cyber Security Engineer, Sr. Consultant - Cloud Security(AWS) - job 16 of 35

Cybersecurity is an integral part of Visa’s corporate culture.  It is essential to maintaining our position as an industry leader in electronic payments, and it is the responsibility of each employee to safeguard information, protect it from unauthorized access, and ensure regulatory compliance.  Information security has a significant effect on privacy, consumer confidence, external reputation, and/or the bottom line, and it is a priority on everyone’s agenda.

The successful incumbent will be part of the Cloud Security team, which is part of the larger Cybersecurity organization.  The Cloud Security Team comprises security professionals who oversee the security aspects of an organization's cloud assets. They are pivotal in ensuring a secure transition and adoption of cloud technologies within the organization. They plan, test, automate and deploy security controls for these assets on platforms like AWS, Azure, and GCP, incorporating Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for automation. As part of their role, they also suggest security solutions and work with other cybersecurity teams to enhance the security of cloud assets.

The Cloud Security team is tasked with responsibilities that include the development of foundational services on public cloud platforms, the preservation of data integrity, the defense against system threats, and the management of access controls. Additionally, they navigate complex regulatory standards across different global jurisdictions, emphasizing the significance of regulatory compliance in securing the organization's cloud infrastructure during its digital transformation.

Essential Functions:

• Lead Visa’s Cloud initiative and contribute to cloud platform architecture, strategy & roadmap and manage the adoption process.

• Responsible for intake and solutioning phase of new Cloud workloads in partnership with O&I, which includes translating the business requirements in technical requirements for the Cloud engineers and ensure cloud engineers understand what they need to build.

• Execute cloud security strategy to support Visa’s Hybrid & Multi-Cloud solutions across various providers.

• Responsible for security architecture for hybrid cloud and support design of cloud solutions meeting standardization, consolidation, security, and regulatory compliance, for different use cases.

• Design secure cloud-native platforms, core services, and security controls across multiple public and private cloud environments, including Azure, AWS, and GCP.

• Assess security and architecture of business applications as they migrate to public clouds.

• Coach and mentor team members and colleagues cross-functionally, including horizontal organizations.

• Research and evaluate emerging technologies as they become available.

• Design and automate dedicated products and services on top of the cloud landing platform

• Work closely with the other cloud teams, O&I team and work pro-actively with products teams and business teams. Support the Cloud platforms in the US time-zone.

• Be an evangelist of Cloud computing.

This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.