Director, Container Security - Cybersecurity Products

  • Full-time
  • Job Family Group: Technology and Operations

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses and economies to thrive.

When you join Visa, you join a culture of purpose and belonging – where your growth is priority, your identity is embraced, and the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world – helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

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Job Description

Visa has fully embraced containerization technologies that enable us to move to microservices-based application architectures and be able to deploy at scale. To secure such environments, Visa's cybersecurity product team engineered a cybersecurity product that delivers critical container and Kubernetes security across the states of build, deployment, and runtime security in the Visa private cloud. This role will lead this product team as its Director, and lead a team of software engineers, AI engineers, and security architects to continue to build on this world-class product.

Essential Functions:  

  • Wear the hat of the chief container security strategist for the company, providing guidance for design and architecture of k8s and other orchestrated clusters at a massive scale
  • Operate as the chief architect for this cybersecurity product, continuously enhancing it to combat threats against this platform
  • Work with Visa's container and platform experts to implement rapid POCs and pilots to demonstrate feasibility of new capabilities and technologies and align security defenses to such capabilities
  • Partner closely with application teams in ensuring container security best practices implemented using the Visa product and native Linux/K8s security capabilities and the infrastructure security automation can be self-service
  • While you are a people manager, you will also be the lead software engineer of this cybersecurity product

See this article that talks about this product in CSO Magazine:  https://www.csoonline.com/article/3529974/how-visa-built-its-own-container-security-solution.html

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

  • Experience:  10 years of work experience with a Bachelor 's Degree or at least 8 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters/ MBA/JD/MD) or at least 3 years of work experience with a PhD
  • Must have led team of technical product managers, managing products and roadmaps
  • Specialized Experience: 6+ years of product-oriented software development experience with at least 2+ years of leading a team. 
  • Software Engineering: The candidate must have software engineering background in functional or object oriented programming languages such as Go, C++, or Rust and deployed solutions with at least 1000+ lines of code (academic/professionally) 
  • Container technologies background: At least 3 years of hands-on experience with containers in production environment - Docker, Openshift, Kubernetes preferred.
  • DevOps: Knowledge of tools like Jenkins, Ansible, CI/CD

Preferred Qualifications

Technologies:

  • Hands-on experience building platforms at scale for containerized workloads, particularly leveraging Kubernetes and other workflow orchestrators. They must posses detailed understanding of core concepts of Kubernetes APIs and cluster architecture
  • Docker/Kubernetes/OpenShift deployment, configuration, scaling, and management of containerized applications experience is a plus. This includes strong system security awareness, knowledge of OS hardening, hardening, securing a Kubernetes cluster with monitoring and auditing dashboards
  • Understanding of networking concepts incl. iptables, ipsets, eBPF
  • Working with tools surrounding the Kubernetes ecosystem such as helm, kubeadm, sysdig, FluentD, etc. 
  • Working with configuration management tools like Chef, Ansible, Terraform, etc. 
  • Proficiency is scripting and automation skills, converting manual and maintenance functions into fully orchestrated automation

Leadership:

  • Exceptional collaboration and partnership skills with the ability to work in a global environment and drive consensus in cross-functional teams
  • Strong technical analytical and troubleshooting skills and posses an ability to explain technical concepts and guidance to staff

Additional Information

Visa has adopted a COVID-19 vaccination policy to safeguard the health and well-being of our employees and visitors. As a condition of employment, all employees based in the U.S. are required to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19, unless a reasonable accommodation is approved or as otherwise required by law.

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.

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