Senior Security Engineer
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Job description
The Business Security Enablement ONE team is looking for a Senior Security Engineer to join our team. The Business Security Enablement Guild is a worldwide team of information security experts focused on helping Mastercard achieve its goals by ensuring security is at the heart of everything we do. The ideal candidate needs an elevated level of expertise in information security and secure engineering disciplines.
- Apply knowledge of security principles, theories, and concepts to technology reviews.
- Work independently on reviews of third-party technologies and internally developed applications.
- Work closely with stakeholders to evaluate business requests to determine feasibility.
- Provide and recommend optimal solutions to meet security and regulatory requirements in the design of new/enhanced systems.
- Ensure established security policies and standards are observed on projects.
- Prepare and present business/technical presentations., 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.
- Complete all periodic mandatory security training in accordance with Mastercard's guidelines., 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.
Requirements
- 3-7 years of work experience in information security disciplines.
- CISSP or Industry recognized security certification is a nice to have.
- Advanced knowledge of security protocols and standards.
- Experience with software, security architecture and security designs.
- Technical experience with Programming Languages.
- Knowledge or technical security experience in Cryptography.
- Knowledge or hands on experience securing AI/ML enabled systems, including:
o AI data flows, model lifecycle risks, and inference security
o Risks related to training data, model access, prompt injection, and misuse
- Familiarity with AI security and governance concepts, such as:
o Secure use of third party AI platforms and services
o Data protection, privacy, and regulatory considerations in AI solutions
o Threat modeling for AI driven and data intensive architectures
- Moderate hands-on administrative and security experience with Windows and Linux systems
- Working knowledge of symmetric and asymmetric encryption, Digital Certificates, SSL, VPN, IPSec, WAF's and other security tools and processes such as privileged identity management, file integrity, audit, logging and IDS/IPS.
- Moderate hands on scripting experience, including automation to improve security review efficiency.
Benefits & conditions
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: $115,000 - $184,000 USD
