Sr. Cybersecurity Engineer - Cloud

Company Overview

Founded by experienced entrepreneurs and engineers in 2016, Pismo is a technology company that provides a comprehensive processing platform for banking, card issuing, and financial market infrastructure and helps customers innovate and build the next generation of banking and payment solutions. Pismo joined Visa in 2024.

Leveraging Visa’s solutions, our core platform, and an expanding suite of capabilities, Pismo addresses the technological challenges that large banks, marketplaces, and fintech companies face in migrating from legacy systems to more advanced technology in the market. Pismo’s cloud‑based platform empowers firms to build and launch financial products rapidly, scaling as they grow to have a broader audience while keeping high security and availability standards.

Pismo’s 500+ employees are located in more than 10 countries around the world.

The Cybersecurity Engineer – Cloud is responsible for designing, implementing, and operating security controls that protect cloud‑native platforms and workloads across public cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP). The role partners closely with engineering, Dev Ops, and architecture teams to ensure cloud services are secure by design, compliant with regulatory requirements, and resilient at scale.

This position combines hands‑on engineering, security architecture, and risk‑based decision‑making within complex, distributed, and regulated environments.

In addition to cloud security responsibilities, this role provides security oversight and engineering support for AI‑enabled capabilities used across the Pismo platform. The engineer ensures that adoption of Artificial Intelligence and Large Language Models (LLMs) is aligned with Visa security controls, Pismo data‑protection principles, and global regulatory expectations.

This is a remote position. Remote duties may require presentatation at a Visa office with scheduled notice.

Basic Qualifications:

• 5+ years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s Degree or at least 2 years of work experience with an Advanced degree (e.g., Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 0 years of work experience with a PhD, OR 8+ years of relevant work experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience operating in regulated or high‑availability environments is strongly preferred.
• Multicloud Security Expertise (Core Requirement)
  • Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM), least‑privilege access, and workload identity
  • Network segmentation, service‑to‑service authentication, and mTLS
  • Cloud encryption models and key management (KMS, HSM, certificate authorities)
  • Experience with Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) and misconfiguration detection.
  • Understanding of cloud‑native logging, monitoring, and detection capabilities
• Hands‑on experience securing:
  • Kubernetes and container platforms
  • Container image scanning and runtime security
  • Infrastructure‑as‑Code (Terraform, Cloud Formation, ARM)
• Ability to embed security controls into CI/CD pipelines and platform guardrails.
• Familiarity with configuration‑drift detection and continuous compliance.
• Strong understanding of:
• API security (OAuth/OIDC, token‑based auth)
• Application‑level encryption, tokenization, and hashing
• Data protection across storage, database, and file‑system layers
• Enable secure software development lifecycle (SSDLC) practices, including SAST, SCA, and SBOM
• Risk, Compliance & Governance:
• Working knowledge of security and compliance frameworks such as PCI DSS, ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR, or NIST.
• Ability to translate security findings into risk‑based recommendations for engineering and leadership.
• Experience partnering with architecture, risk, and compliance teams.
• Tools, Technologies & Certifications (Preferred):
• Experience with cloud‑security tooling…