Cybersecurity Engineer: Cloud Security & M&A Focus

Visa; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Visa is strengthening its Cybersecurity team in the United Kingdom to support mergers and acquisitions with a focus on cybersecurity integration. The role emphasizes cloud security, threat analysis, and policy development to protect payments platforms, both in the cloud and on‑premise.

You will translate security needs into actionable business requirements and work with IT and business units to embed security across technology and operations.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelors degree, OR 5+ years of relevant work experience, 3+ years with a Bachelor's or more than 2 years with an Advanced Degree.
• 3+ years experience with cloud security services (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Programming experience (Python).
• 5+ years of work experience in Cloud security.

Responsibilities

• Conduct threat and risk analysis and participate in developing mitigation strategies.
• Assist in the development and enforcement of security policies, procedures, and best practices.
• Enhance the security posture of the entity hosted in public cloud or on-prem environment.
• Translate security and technical requirements into business requirements and communicate risks to business leaders and engineers.
• Collaborate with IT and other units to ensure security is integrated into technology and operations.
• Develop infrastructure and platform to automate vulnerability management and security reporting.

Skills

Cloud security

Python

Terraform

Kubernetes

OWASP Top 10

CWE Top 25

Education

Bachelor's degree

Advanced degree (e.g. Masters)

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Terraform

Kubernetes

Job description

Visa is strengthening its Cybersecurity team in the United Kingdom to support mergers and acquisitions with a focus on cybersecurity integration. The role emphasizes cloud security, threat analysis, and policy development to protect payments platforms, both in the cloud and on‑premise.

You will translate security needs into actionable business requirements and work with IT and business units to embed security across technology and operations.