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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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Visa's Cyber Engineering team is looking for a Sr. Cybersecurity Engineer focused on Cyber Threat Researching & Solutioning Security Detections 

• Understands capabilities and limitations of security tools to develop effective security solutions.

• Improves security control efficacy and alerting capabilities by:

  • Identifying gaps in control policies and alerting content.

  • Testing and tuning existing detections and controls.

  • Researching adversarial techniques and tools.

• Leverages detection frameworks to evaluate existing alert content and identify opportunities for improving security posture.

• Assists in the development of alert playbooks by:

  • Making recommendations based on the shortcomings of detections or policies.

  • Identifying opportunities for automating relevant data gathering and summarization.

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.

Basic Qualifications
• 5+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 8+ years of relevant work experience
• Understanding of adversarial Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TTPs).
• Excellent understanding and proven hands-on experience in detection concepts such as correlation, aggregation, normalization, and parsing.
• Experience with Endpoint and Network security tools.
• Excellent Python, PowerShell, or similar coding experience.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate with other teams to independently carry out assigned tasks and meet objectives.

Preferred Qualifications
• 8 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 4 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD)

• Excellent understanding/knowledge of:
• Current Cyber Threat Landscapes
• Firewalls/Proxies/Intrusion Detection Systems/SIEM/EDR/WAF and other network technologies
• Cloud Security
• Incident response processes
• Detection frameworks such as MITRE Att&ck.
• Knowledge of Big data, cloud technologies, virtualization, containers, service-mesh

Certifications - One or more of the following Certifications:
• SANS Technical certifications
• Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP)
• AWS Certified Security Specialty or similar

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.