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## My Career Pivot: From IT recruiter to information security

DevFeed: [My Career Pivot: From IT recruiter to information security](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/my-career-pivot-from-it-recruiter-to-information-security-32387.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://medium.com/@SkyscannerEng/my-career-pivot-from-it-recruiter-to-information-security-cf955ca39d24?source=rss-401f3b3c958f------2>)

Author: Skyscanner Engineering

Published: 2022-06-24T08:08:19Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Stories by Skyscanner Engineering on Medium](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/stories-by-skyscanner-engineering-on-medium.md>)

Topics: [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [Cybersecurity](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cybersecurity.md>)

Tags: [career](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/career.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [female-engineers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/female-engineers.md>), [information-security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/information-security.md>), [pci-dss](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pci-dss.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>), [security-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security-engineering.md>), [women-in-tech](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/women-in-tech.md>)

### AI overview

This profile follows Maria Sepulveda's career transition from customer service and IT recruitment into information security. As a Senior Security Engineer at Skyscanner, she discusses her role, career development, and responsibility for leading the recertification of the company's PCI DSS compliance.

### Source excerpt

Senior Security Engineer Maria Sepulveda As we celebrate International Women in Engineering Day this week, we're profiling female-identifying engineers across our business. Maria Sepulveda is a Senior Security Engineer at Skyscanner. An expert within information security, Maria led the recertification of Skyscanner's PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry data Security Standard) compliance. Maria took an unconventional path to information security, starting her career in customer service and IT recruitment. Here, she discusses her journey, imposter syndrome and what her role looks like today. Maria, as a Senior Security Engineer, what does your role involve? Well, I only recently joined Skyscanner so a typical day for me today might look different to a typical day in a couple of months time! Having said that, I have already been given responsibility to lead the recertification of our PCI-DSS compliance. It's great that I can be trusted so early on in my Skyscanner journey. My day typically starts with following up on tasks that are due in the coming week. During the day I meet with people and various teams to understand what they do. I'll also attend internal events, often to better understand the Skyscanner culture and the way things work here -- as well as to make connections. Focus Time in the afternoon allows me to re-read my notes and absorb information I obtained during the day. The day might end with a recap of the day with my team, allowing me to ask questions I haven't already asked or just generally talk about how the day went. What was your career journey to this point? I took an unconventional path into information security. Originally from Australia, I worked in customer service roles and IT recruitment. I arrived in London and found a job working at an in-house recruitment team for an online betting company. I knew that I wanted to move into a more tech-focussed role but still interfacing with the business. My colleague who was recruiting for the security team