Our Purpose
Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.
Title and Summary
Security Monitoring and Response Analyst II
Who is Mastercard?
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is 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. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.
Overview
The Mastercard Fusion Center is looking for a Security Monitoring and Response Analyst II to drive our customer experience strategy forward by consistently innovating and problem-solving. The ideal candidate is passionate about collaboration, communication and culture. They will have advanced presentation skills, be highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical, and possesses a futurist mindset.
Role
In this position, you will:
• Prepare presentations to be used for various efforts such as threat preparedness exercises, events and collaboration sessions
• Track and analyse information and intelligence to prepare a threat metrics portfolio that can be utilized by mid through senior level management
• Share and report information, analyze threats and opportunities, and leverage partner capabilities and resources
• Increase the maturity of key Fusion Center capabilities across governance, people, processes, and technology to help Mastercard achieve integrated cyber defense, proactively monitor, detect, investigate, and respond to known and unknown attacks
• Configure threat visualization technology to display data feeds relevant to response scenarios
• Assist in coordinating large scale, global preparedness exercises to include Threatcasting, threat briefings, and other related events
• Initiate and track critical Fusion Center projects and workstreams to closure across cyber, geopolitical, physical and enterprise resilience domains
• Protect Mastercard and its stakeholders
All About You
• Excellent communication, listening & facilitation skills
• Advanced presentation preparation skills to include Microsoft Power Point, Excel, and Word
• Sound judgment, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities
• Possess a personal passion for fostering a culture of decency, collaboration, and team spirit
• Experience managing senior-level relationships
• Experience mentoring and coaching others
• Excellent ability to take a pragmatic approach to dealing with situations where confidentiality is important or where our work is of a sensitive nature
• Excellent ability to anticipate threats and risks, articulate threat risk to stakeholders and make thoughtful, balance recommendations to stakeholders
• Some knowledge in least two of as the following cybersecurity disciplines: Fusion Center, Security Operations Center, Network Security, Incident Response, Forensics, Threat Intelligence, Vulnerability Management, Risk Management, or Business Operations
The ideal candidate for this position should:
• Have a clear mission that focuses on protecting Mastercard, our employees and the payments ecosystem
• Have experience creating presentations using common applications, developing graphs and visuals from various data sources, and experience working with others to coordinate meetings and events
• Continually look at the Fusion Center processes to see what can be done better
• Go out of your way to get close to the Fusion Center partners to find out what their needs are and how you can help
• Identify areas where resources fall short of needs and provide thoughtful and sustainable solutions to benefit the team
• Be skilled at explaining technical problems succinctly and clearly
• Be a strong, confident, and exacting writer and speaker, able to communicate your vision and roadmap effectively to a wide variety of stakeholders
• Always look for potential solutions to solve problems
Corporate Security Responsibility
Every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security. All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and therefore, it is expected that the successful candidate for this position 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.
NOTE: Candidates go through a thorough screening and interview process. There is no need to include all preferred skills in the job description.
Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.com and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.
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.
In line with Mastercard’s total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. The base salary offered may vary depending on multiple factors, including but not limited to location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance); flexible spending account and health savings account; paid leaves (including 16 weeks of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave); 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time, 25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days, pro-rated based on date of hire; 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays; 401k with a best-in-class company match; deferred compensation for eligible roles; fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities; eligibility for tuition reimbursement; and many more. Mastercard benefits for interns generally include: 56 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time; jury duty leave; and on-site fitness facilities in some locations.
Pay Ranges
O'Fallon, Missouri: $75,000 - $125,000 USD