Sr. Cybersecurity Engineer - Iam

Visa Visa · Fintech · Austin, TX

Visa is seeking a Sr. Cybersecurity Engineer - IAM to design, implement, and operate security controls for cloud-native platforms and workloads. The role involves partnering with engineering, DevOps, and architecture teams to ensure cloud services are secure by design, compliant with regulatory requirements, and resilient. A key aspect of this role is providing security oversight and engineering support for AI-enabled capabilities, ensuring the responsible adoption of AI and LLMs aligns with Visa's security and data protection principles, and global regulatory expectations. The engineer will also focus on multi-cloud security/IAM, identity providers, and PAM capabilities.

What you'd actually do

  1. Designing, implementing, and operating security controls that protect cloud‑native platforms and workloads across public cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP).
  2. Partnering closely with engineering, DevOps, and architecture teams to ensure cloud services are secure by design, compliant with regulatory requirements, and resilient at scale.
  3. Providing security oversight and engineering support for AI‑enabled capabilities used across the Pismo platform.
  4. Ensuring that adoption of Artificial Intelligence and Large Language Models (LLMs) is aligned with Visa security controls, Pismo data‑protection principles, and global regulatory expectations.
  5. Implementing enterprise IAM standards and operating in compliance-driven environments (access control evidence, audits, governance).

Skills

Required

  • 6+ years in IAM/security engineering
  • Strong knowledge of IAM fundamentals: identity lifecycle, authentication, authorization, MFA, RBAC/ABAC, access reviews
  • Demonstrated coding ability and automation mindset: Python/Go preferred; PowerShell/Bash acceptable
  • Experience implementing enterprise IAM standards
  • Solid understanding of segregation of duties and production access constraints
  • Multi-cloud security/IAM experience across AWS/Azure/GCP
  • Experience with identity providers / governance platforms
  • Experience engineering and/or integrating PAM capabilities and processes
  • Experience applying GenAI to security operations

Nice to have

  • Security certifications (nice-to-have): CISSP/CISM, cloud certs, IAM-related certs

What the JD emphasized

  • strong hands-on delivery
  • shipping tools used by others
  • operating in compliance-driven environments
  • applying GenAI to security operations responsibly