Associate Cybersecurity Engineer – Applied Cryptography

Associate Cybersecurity Engineer – Applied Cryptography

Requirements

• Bachelors degree, OR 3+ years of relevant work experience
• Basic Coding skills
• Knowledge of Industry certificate requirements
• Strong experience with Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) and NIST Special Publications
• Solid experience with Cybersecurity strategies and frameworks to protect data assets
• Seasoned Engineer on Key Management and Hardware Security Modules (HSM)
• Knowledge on application design and development
• Experience with Secure Development Lifecycle methodologies, Agile based methodologies
• Strong understanding of Cryptographic technologies, including APIs and Tools
• Understanding on the Cloud PKI and Key Management implementations on AWS, Azure and GCP
• Understanding and experience with the cryptography algorithms, and public key infrastructure (PKI)
• Verbal and written communication skills, problem solving skills, attention to detail and interpersonal skills along with the ability to present complex security subjects to internal work groups and projects.

Responsibilities

• Be part of a global Applied Cryptography team supporting PKI infrastructure, operations and critical services.
• Provide Level 1 Support supporting the design and implementation of complex encryption requirements.
• Develop skills and knowledge to be recognized as a subject matter expert and contributor to PKI and encryption technologies.
• Support the design, propose and review new encryption solutions & implementation, and provide functional and technical support for program, project and core needs.
• Evaluates current global and technology specific processes to determine process improvements, and how best to gain more effectiveness and efficiency.
• Support the review, update and creation of encryption policies, procedures and technical security requirements in collaboration with the Security Architecture teams.
• Takes a supporting role with coordinating internal / external industry audits in collaboration with Visa internal teams.
• Takes a supporting role in Reporting & implementing changes needed for industry compliance.
• Takes a supporting role in Reporting to management industry trends and recommendations.
• Takes a supporting role in maintaining and supporting of multiple PKI implementations and technologies.
• Participate in projects to deploy new PKI applications and services.
• Support oncall and after hours certificate requirements.
• Ability to support and work non-traditional work hours, not limited to weekends, and evenings.
• Support Applied Cryptography team in providing Asymmetric and symmetric encryption subject matter expertise.
• Assist with design and implement robust PKI solutions tailored to meet the organization’s security requirements.
• Support the development and maintenance of comprehensive documentation for PKI enrollment, management and integration processes for Visa applications, ensuring clarity and ease of understanding for stakeholders.
• Collaborate closely with application developers, system administrators, and other stakeholders to ensure PKI solutions are effectively integrated and maintained.
• Stay current with industry trends, standards, and best practices related to PKI and data security, and proactively propose enhancements to existing solutions.
• Troubleshoot and resolve PKI-related issues, ensuring minimal disruption to business operations.
• Participate in security assessments and audits to validate the effectiveness of PKI implementations and identify areas for improvement.
• Support Applied Cryptography Operational task, that include health checks, patching and key ceremonies.

Preferred Qualifications

• 2 or more years of work experience