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
Senior Information Security Engineer
Who is Mastercard?
Mastercard is a global technology company developing the next generation of applications and services 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 Business Security Enablement (BSE) team is looking for a Senior Security Engineer to join us working out of our Pune India Office
• Can you demonstrate a high level of expertise in information security and secure development disciplines?
• Can you advise development teams on how to securely design applications and services following industry best practices and enhance existing approaches to security engineering?
• Have you performed security analysis of mobile applications, web applications or web services and understand the threats, attacks and risks to payment applications?
• Can you analyze an application architecture to reduce the security risk to an acceptable level, while still providing beneficial functionality for the end user?
• Can you provide guidance on how to securely implement systems in cloud environments?
Responsibilities
• 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 to 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
• Utilize security experience and knowledge to cultivate and maintain effective working relationships with a variety of Internal Mastercard and External stakeholders, including business owners, end-users, customers, project managers, engineers, and senior management.
• Articulate and communicate security and risk management terminology into business terms and recommend alternative solutions to both senior management and customers.
• 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 CI/CD efforts
All About You
• Degree preferably in computer science/information security or work experience equivalent in information security disciplines
• Industry recognized security certification desired.
• Knowledge of relevant industry standards and guidelines such as ISO27001, PCI-DSS, NIST SP800-53
• Experience providing secure design advice for web-based environments and secure communication, including mobile applications, web applications and web services
• Demonstrate a broad awareness of security engineering concepts and practices across all phases of the software development lifecycle
• Technical experience with Java or similar enterprise programming language, especially related to secure coding best practices
• Strong understanding of information security, risk and data privacy within the domain of digital commerce including relevant practical experience
• Knowledge of cryptography, including several of the following: encryption, hashing, key management, digital certificates, TLS
• Knowledge of virtualization platforms
• Experience with continuous delivery/continuous integration processes and procedures including critical security considerations in automated workflows
• Understand mobile security architecture concepts, design and implementation for Android and IOS
• Working knowledge and technical security experience with UNIX, Linux or AIX
• Ability to articulate and communicate effectively to diverse audiences and properly translates security and risk management terminology into business terms, and recommends alternative solutions to these stakeholders
• 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.