Senior Risk Operations Analyst (Cybersecurity)

Location: Hybrid role based in the Atlanta, GA or Austin, TX offices; shift work, after-hours, weekend, and holiday availability required.

Salary: $124,300–$210,300 USD per year, with potential bonus, equity, and sales incentive payments where applicable.

Company

hirify.global provides global payments technology connecting consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories.

What you will do

• Monitor fraud and risk alerts from in-house solutions and investigate activity affecting hirify.global and its clients.
• Escalate incidents to appropriate support teams for validation, mitigation, and coordinated response.
• Assess major and critical incident impact, prepare communications, and maintain alert documentation.
• Coordinate with regional Risk groups and Payment Fraud Disruption during fraud events, providing real-time status and data-driven decisions.
• Develop operational metrics and reporting, validate data accuracy, and identify process and system improvements.
• Support the identification and disruption of emerging cybercrime and fraud threats across the payments ecosystem.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of relevant experience with a bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience with an advanced degree or PhD.
• Experience working collaboratively in a 24x7 Operations Center and responding to major fraud events outside regular hours.
• Knowledge of payment transactions, transaction-processing systems, payment processes, and fraud techniques.
• Understanding of networks, risk management, network security, digital forensics, and security operations.
• Experience with data analytics, visualization tools, meaningful trend reporting, and fraud statistics.
• Availability for shift work, after-hours, weekends, and holidays is required.

Nice to have

• Experience in payment cards or cybersecurity, payment card investigations, cybercrime fraud, or Red Team testing.
• Experience with hirify.globalNet, ISO 8583, transaction routing, VCMS, Base I, or Base II.
• Familiarity with intelligence databases, analytical tools, cyber threat intelligence, or fraud intelligence.
• CISSP, CHFI, CEH, or GIAC certification.
• Graduate degree.

Culture & Benefits

• Work is performed in an office setting with collaboration across global Risk and fraud-disruption teams.
• Travel is required 5–10% of the time.
• Benefits may include medical, dental, vision, 401(k), FSA/HSA, life insurance, paid time off, and a wellness program.
• Work hours vary according to department needs.