Information security is foundational to Visa’s culture and critical to our leadership in electronic payments. This role sits within Cybersecurity’s Global Business‑to‑Business Identity & Access Management (B2B IAM) team, which secures access to Visa’s business portals and associated services worldwide. You will design, implement, and operate IAM solutions—primarily on ForgeRock—aligned to an evolving threat landscape, regulatory obligations, and enterprise architecture. You will partner closely with Operations, Database, and Middleware Engineering to meet or exceed SLA and availability targets while supporting compliance with GDPR, PCI DSS, and ISO/IEC 27001.
Basic Qualifications
• 2+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 5+ years of relevant work experience
• Familiarity with:
• Web/application servers: Apache HTTP Server, Microsoft IIS, Apache Tomcat, exposure to NGINX or JWS is a plus.
• LDAP concepts and basic directory administration tasks.
• Linux fundamentals and basic Windows Server administration.
• Monitoring/logging tools (e.g., Splunk or Elastic/Kibana, Grafana/Prometheus) for dashboards and alerts.
• Understanding of SSO/federation standards (SAML 2.0, OpenID Connect, OAuth 2.0) and MFA concepts.
• Working knowledge of software development practices: Git, pull requests, basic scripting (Shell/Python), and issue/change tracking in Jira (or similar).
• Strong collaboration and communication skills with globally distributed teams, organized, detail oriented, and eager to learn.
• Awareness of release/change management and safe deployment patterns (e.g., peer reviews, maintenance windows, rollback plans).
Preferred Qualifications
• 3 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor’s degree or more than 2 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD)
• Hands on academic/internship experience integrating SSO or configuring IAM platforms (ForgeRock AM/DS preferred).
• Exposure to API auth concepts (OAuth 2.0 flows, JWT) and mTLS basics.
• Familiarity with web/security architecture fundamentals (TLS, reverse proxies, load balancers, WAF concepts).
• Basic CI/CD and infrastructure as code exposure (e.g., Jenkins/GitHub Actions/GitLab CI, Terraform) and automated config promotion between environments.
• Experience writing small automations (Shell/Python/Groovy) to reduce toil, interest in using analytics/ML to automate repetitive IAM tasks.
• Awareness of incident/change/problem management processes and how they apply to IAM operations.
• Understanding of why GDPR, PCI DSS, and ISO/IEC 27001 matter for access controls, logging, and data handling.
Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in 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 while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.
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