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Lead Information Security Engineer

MasterCard
Copenhagen, NY Full Time
POSTED ON 1/19/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/19/2025

We work to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments and businesses realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.

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Title and Summary

Lead Information Security Engineer

Mastercard is seeking a professional to join our Security Engineering team in Pune. Mastercard is developing the next generation of applications and services to enable consumers and businesses to securely, efficiently, and intelligently conduct payment transactions. Whether through traditional retail, mobile, or e-commerce, Mastercard innovation is leading the digital convergence of traditional and emerging payments technologies across a wide variety of new devices and services.

Role

  • Provide technical design and architecture advice to internal teams on how to securely develop and build applications and supporting systems.
  • Define secure mechanisms for critical business functions in cloud environments.
  • Work closely with developers and evaluate business requests and proposed designs to determine feasibility; work with software development teams to define alternatives and recommend optimal solutions to meet security and regulatory requirements in the design of new enhanced systems.
  • Leverage security experience and knowledge within the mobile and digital commerce arena to cultivate and maintain effective working relationships with a variety of internal MasterCard stakeholders, including business owners, end-users, customers, project managers, engineers, and senior management.
  • Define security requirements and guidelines to ensure repeatable processes are followed by worldwide teams.
  • Assist in the strategy, standards, and architecture for the security aspects of the SDLC including application, mobile, web service, DevOps, cloud, and CICD efforts.
  • Participate in, and drive risk assessment processes in line with risk policies, which includes producing relevant information for the purpose of assessing security risks and control effectiveness.
  • From time to time, participate as Subject Matter Expert in various risk committees and forums.
  • Participate in root cause assessment processes on incidents related to security.
  • Act as a control owner for key controls related to security, including regularly testing control effectiveness and remediating control gaps.

All About You

  • Strong understanding of information security, risk and data privacy within the domain of digital commerce including relevant practical experience.
  • Demonstrate a broad awareness of security engineering concepts and practices across all phases of the software development lifecycle.
  • Experience providing security architecture advice for web based network environments and secure communication, including mobile applications, web applications and web services.
  • Knowledge and technical security experience in cryptography, including several of the following encryption, hashing, key management, digital certificates, TLS.
  • Knowledge and experience with virtualization platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2 and Azure, including securing workloads on Kubernetes.
  • Experience with networking on AWS, Kubernetes and Istio.
  • Experience of continuous delivery / continuous integration processes and procedures including critical security considerations in automated workflows.
  • Technical experience with object oriented programming languages or similar enterprise programming language, especially related to secure coding best practices.
  • Experienced in mobile security architecture concepts, design and implementation for Android and IOS.
  • Demonstrate technical competency in security engineering based on hands-on experience or relevant qualifications.
  • Working knowledge and technical security experience with UNIX, Linux, Solaris, or AIX.
  • Demonstrate the ability to articulate and communicate effectively to diverse audiences and properly translate security and risk management terminology into business terms, and recommend alternative solutions to these stakeholders.
  • Working knowledge of internationally recognized security standards and frameworks such as ISO2700x, NIST etc.
  • Preferably experience from a regulated industry subject to regulation like DORA or NIS2.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills.
  • Corporate Security Responsibility

    All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must :

  • Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;
  • Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
  • Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
  • Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.
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