Network Security & Compliance Engineer

Cognizant; Buenos Aires; Híbrido; ARS 1.800.000 - 3.000.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Cognizant is seeking a senior security governance professional to design and enhance enterprise governance risk and compliance frameworks, aligning security policies with regulatory expectations and business objectives across hybrid work environments.

You will lead security risk assessments for card and payment services, collaborate with internal audit, and drive policy management to enable secure innovation and resilient digital services.

Formación

• Advanced or completed studies related to Technology and/or Information Security.
• Knowledge and experience in General Network Management and Security.
• Experience with Network Protocols TCP/UDP/IP/TLS/DHCP.
• Experience with Network Security Solutions IDS/IPS/WAF or FW.
• PKI Digital Certificates.
• Security Controls and Auditing.
• Security Policies and Best Practices.
• Intermediate/Advanced English.

Responsabilidades

• Develop and maintain comprehensive security governance frameworks that translate regulatory requirements into actionable policies and standards adopted across the organization to strengthen overall resilience and trust in digital services.
• Design and refine security policies for data protection access control incident response and technology usage that support day to day operations while minimizing risk exposure and enabling business teams to deliver secure products and services.
• Oversee an enterprise wide process for security standards management that ensures technical baselines and control requirements are consistently defined periodically reviewed and effectively communicated to engineering and operations teams.
• Provide expert guidance to project and product teams on interpreting security policies and standards and on integrating appropriate security controls into solution designs across hybrid work models and modern technology platforms.
• Lead formal security risk assessments and control evaluations for critical business processes including card and payment services to identify control gaps prioritize remediation and support informed risk based decision making.
• Coordinate with internal audit and compliance stakeholders to align governance risk and compliance activities with audit findings and regulatory expectations ensuring timely closure of issues and clear accountability across functions.
• Drive implementation of security management processes such as exceptions handling risk acceptance and policy waivers that use consistent criteria and transparent documentation to balance innovation needs with risk appetite.
• Collaborate with information technology and business operations teams to embed security by design practices in solution development and change management so that security requirements are considered early and tracked through implementation.
• Monitor effectiveness of security policies and standards using metrics and key risk indicators and prepare clear reports and dashboards that help senior stakeholders understand security posture and areas requiring improvement.
• Guide integration of security governance requirements into vendor and third party management activities by defining minimum control expectations and reviewing assessments to safeguard shared data and outsourced services.
• Support security awareness and targeted training initiatives by translating policy and standard requirements into practical scenarios that help employees understand how their daily actions protect company assets and customer information.
• Evaluate emerging regulations industry frameworks and security trends and recommend updates to governance risk and compliance approaches to keep the organization aligned with best practices and competitive expectations.
• Contribute to incident preparedness by ensuring that response plans roles and decision processes are clearly documented in security management standards enabling coordinated action when events occur.

Conocimientos

General Network Management

Network Protocols TCP/UDP/IP/TLS/DHCP

Network Security Solutions IDS/IPS/WAF

PKI Digital Certificates

Security Controls

Security Policies

Intermediate/Advanced English

Educación

Advanced studies in Technology and/or Information Security

Descripción del empleo

Cognizant is seeking a senior security governance professional to design and enhance enterprise governance risk and compliance frameworks, aligning security policies with regulatory expectations and business objectives across hybrid work environments.

You will lead security risk assessments for card and payment services, collaborate with internal audit, and drive policy management to enable secure innovation and resilient digital services.