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Smart, driven and want to make a difference in the world?

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Join a diverse team at Visa, where your individuality fits right in. We can provide the opportunity to shape the payments experience globally. Together, let’s transform the way the world pays.

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Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, reliable and secure digital payment network that enables individuals, businesses and economies to thrive.

Individuality fuels our brand and our global team – we’re proud that we are a talented team of 15,000 individuals with unique backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. Therefore, we understand that you are much more than your day job. We encourage quality of life outside of the office, whether it’s taking advantage of agile work schedules or our wellness programs, Visa respects and encourages meaningful work/life balance for everyone. In addition, we offer market leading salary and have a fantastic benefits offering.

So, if you’re not satisfied with the status quo, we can satisfy your desire to explore new territory, giving you the runway to really make an impact, whilst connecting you with teams around the world in a truly inclusive culture that celebrates our uniqueness.

If you think you could support Visa as a Senior Threat Analyst, we want to hear from you – together, let’s make Visa a great place to work.

What’s it all about?

Cybersecurity is at the beating heart of our business. Our diligence and expertise is what makes us the undisputed leader in electronic payments.  We’ve made it our priority to create top-tier Cyber teams, poised to defend us against any potential cyber threats.  
We’re looking for those of you who are inherently driven and fascinated by the art and science of cybersecurity. We’ll equip you with the very best tools so that you can deliver top notch results. 
Continuous self-development underpins job fulfilment at Visa. As a Senior Threat Analyst within Cybersecurity you’ll be enthused by ensuring our cyber defence is proactively aligned to the threat landscape as well as the chance to work with top notch professionals to learn with and from.

What we expect of you, day to day

The Threat Analyst will work as a member of the Global Cybersecurity organization in the Cyber Threat Intelligence & Research (CITR) team, which is focused on research, analysis and production of actionable intelligence to maximize cyber resilience.
The individual, with a broad cybersecurity systems knowledge and understanding will work closely with other security functions to provide guidance & coordination. Working as a member of the Global CITR team, reporting into the Global Head of CITR.

• Liaise with Threat Intelligence partners to ensure relevant cyber threat intelligence is gathered, assessed, and acted upon.
• Identify and maintain open source intelligence sources.
• Drive tactical threat Intelligence activities, undertaking research to identify and understand the tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) used by relevant threat actors.
• Identify potential gaps in security controls and identify cyber resilience optimisation opportunities in prevent and detect technologies.
• Identify detection logic that can be implemented in monitoring technologies to detect suspicious and malicious activity.
• Contribute to tactical testing (Purple Team) and threat hunting initiatives.
• Collaborate with other cybersecurity teams in virtual team projects to increase cyber resilience.
• Provide intelligence and technical analysis support to the VSIRT team during Cybersecurity incidents and forensic investigations.
• Undertake targeted data analysis to focus in on threats targeting Visa and the wider payment ecosystem.
• Author threat intelligence briefings, situational reports and threat research papers for internal and external stakeholders.
   

What we’re after…

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Technology, Intelligence, Communications (or related fields).
• Extensive experience in the Information Security industry, with a concentrated focus on threat intelligence and risk analysis.
• Demonstrable involvement with one or more groups within the threat intelligence community in Europe e.g.  FS-ISAC, CSIG, CiSP, FS-CCC etc.
• Detailed understanding of the Mitre ATT&CK Framework / CAPEC, with the ability to execute techniques in a controlled environment. Offensive Security Certified Professional (OCSP) certification is highly desirable.
• Deep understanding of the threat landscape, including attack vectors, TTPS used by different threat actor types, and associated mitigating defensive controls and techniques.
• Experience of aligning incident response processes / plans with the threat landscape.
• Experience of contributing to CBEST or STAR-FS testing initiatives from a threat intelligence perspective, undertaking reconnaissance for threat intelligence reports and creating attack trees for specific threat scenarios.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal and presentation skills and the proven ability to influence and communicate effectively
• Experience working in a global organisation with the need to deliver regional requirements.

Think you have what it takes?

If you are interested in a career that will challenge and inspire you – we’d love to hear from you!

Diversity & Inclusion

Universal acceptance for everyone, everywhere, is not only our brand promise, it’s the foundation of our company culture. We foster a feeling of connectedness in the workplace, support diversity of thought, culture and background, fight for important initiatives like Equal Pay and actively work to eliminate unconscious biases that hold us all back.

By leveraging the diverse backgrounds and perspectives of our worldwide teams, Visa is a better place to work and a better business partner to our clients.