Cybersecurity is at the beating heart of our business. Our diligence and expertise are what makes us undisputed leader in electronic payments. We’ve made it our priority to create exemplary security operations and incident response teams, poised to defend us against any potential cyber threats. We’re looking for those of you who are inherently driven and fascinated by the art and science of cyber defense. We’ll equip you with the very best tools and tech so that you can deliver top notch results.
Continuous self-development underpins job fulfilment at Visa. If you have a burning desire for self-development, working with us will expose you to challenges and opportunities to hone your skills. We’ll provide the right environment and a plethora of top-notch professionals to learn with and from.
Essential Functions:
• The objective of Visa’s Penetration Testing program is to proactively identify weaknesses and shortcomings in Visa’s security posture and recommend necessary controls and procedures to protect Visa adversarial threats. With this mission in mind, our pen test experts are pro-actively involved in engagements that simulate adversarial threats & attacks in a timely manner.
• The Security Specialist will be a key contributor for performing internal and external ethical hacks of Visa applications and systems. Pentest team members also help with design, development and recommendation of security solutions to protect Visa proprietary/confidential data and systems.
• Conducting high risk and sensitive ethical hacks of internally and externally hosted applications according to scope defined by the pen test team.
• Subject matter expertise in web, mobile or network penetration testing with track record of end-to-end testing of complex systems.
• Co-ordinate and execute system/network level pen tests and ethical hacking exercises.
• Pro-actively research and Identify network and system vulnerability and provide recommended counter measures or controls to reduce risk to acceptable and manageable level.
• Reviews result of network and application ethical hacks in order to determine severity of findings and to ensure proper remediation is applied.
• Provide accurate and timely reporting of findings and proposed remediation and mitigations.
• Technical support could include but not limited to the following: (1) Audit support & remediation, (2) Process Improvement, (3) Analysis & Reporting, (4) Cross Divisional Functional education, training and awareness, (5) function/Methodology/Strategy advancement.
• Provide technical support to senior management in identifying and streamlining new/existing protocols and tools used by the penetration testing team.
• Develop and automate scripts, tools and resources needed to advance ethical hacking capabilities around new and emerging technologies like mobile, cloud and embedded systems.
This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in office will be confirmed by your hiring manager.