YellowPepper, a Visa company, is Latin America’s pioneer in innovative digital financial solutions. The company’s main focus is to build the Next Generation Payment Ecosystem which includes products such as Yepex®, a brand agnostic real-time payment platform, which helps financial institutions, retailers, and their customers transact digitally, with security, anytime and anywhere. Moreover, YellowPepper also provides value-added services such as tokenization, identity validation, and risk tools to deliver a complete transaction and service offering.  Operating in 9 Latin American countries, the Miami-based company currently serves 50 clients and 5 million monthly active users.

Essential Functions:

• Be a product security champion by driving Security Architecture and design/implementation/optimization for Web, API and Mobile backend applications across Yellow Pepper.
• Engage in the initial requirements definition (including analysis of threats and risks and alignment with Yellow Pepper security, Engineering, IT and Architecture standards.
• Conduct and facilitate security reviews, threat modelling including deep design reviews throughout the development lifecycle.
• Facilitate "table-top"/red-team/scenario analysis exercises in conjunction with other SME's; and plan the resolution of any identified vulnerabilities/issues.
• Conduct high risk and sensitive ethical hacks of internally and externally hosted applications.
• Co-ordinate and execute system/network level pen tests and ethical hacking exercises.
• Pro-actively research and Identify network and system vulnerabilities and provide recommended counter measures or mitigating controls to reduce risk to an acceptable and manageable level.
• Review results of network and application ethical hacks in order to determine severity of findings and to ensure proper remediation is applied.
• Provide accurate and timely reporting of findings and proposed remediation and mitigations.
• Work on enabling/building security to protect the applications from attacks. Products may be built on various platforms and technologies like:
  • In-house and custom developed application deployed in Public cloud like AWS and Google
  • Web technologies like HTTP, SOAP, REST services, AJAX
  • Databases like MongoDB, MySQL, MS SQL, Couchbase, Cassandra, BigTable, CockroachDB
  • Programming languages like Java, C, C++, .Net, Javascript, GoLang, Python, etc.
  • Authentication and authorization frameworks like OAuth2, JWT, SPIRE, SPIFFE
• Automate security tools and processes ensuring innovation and advancement strategies that keep pace in the areas of access control, security-in-depth, secure transaction processing, secure coding practices for web and mobile applications.
• Help business and product team to achieve various compliance certifications like PCI, FFIEC etc.
• Be responsible for overall planning, direction and oversight of multiple projects, products, services or functions.
• Identify and analyze system and application-level vulnerabilities to provide recommended counter measures or mitigating controls that reduce risk to an acceptable and manageable level.
• Independently formulate direction, design or oversight for the development of major Enterprise-wide programs or plans that have significant impact on the success of the organization.

Basic Qualifications:

• 10 years of work experience with a bachelor’s degree or at least 8 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters/ MBA/JD/MD) or at least 3 years of work experience with a PhD 
• A proven record of accomplishment in designing security controls for complex web applications with backend services expertise such as API Gateway, Identity and Access Management Services, Data Protection technologies, Security Information Event Management etc.

Preferred Qualifications:

• You will have significant progressive experience in building secure applications preferably payment platforms, systems that can withstand all types of threats from various threat agents.
• You will have a deep understanding of current compliance, regulatory and legal requirements relevant to the transaction processing industry.
• Knowledge of detection and protection tools, especially in the cloud
• Knowledge of monitoring & response tools such as IDS, IPS, Cloud Integrity Monitoring, Container Scanning, Automated Remediation
• Knowledge of administrative, physical and technical controls that could be built around networks, systems and applications to secure them.
• Expertise on common web attacks and mitigations like OWASP, SANS
• Strong knowledge of deep design review and Secure Development Lifecycle methodologies, Agile based methodologies, middleware platforms, development platforms (Java, C, C++, .NET, Python etc.)
• Experience working on large-scale, cloud-based services (including SaaS, PaaS, IaaS) and very understanding of security challenges involve in deploying Cloud Applications
• Knowledge of Software development in either of C/Objective-C/C++/Swift/Java/Python
• Technical experience with security technologies including, but not limited to, intrusion detection/prevention, event correlation, firewall, antivirus, anti-spam, policy enforcement, patch/configuration management, usage monitoring, audit, secure application development, etc.
• Google Cloud Professional Cloud Security Engineer, formal Cybersecurity certifications like CISSP, GIAC is an added plus

Work Hours

• Incumbent must make themselves available onsite during core business hours

Travel Requirements

• This position does not require travel for work.

Physical Requirements

• This position will be performed in an office setting.  The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers, reach with hands and arms, and bend or lift up to 25 pounds.

YellowPepper will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.