Title: Senior Security Engineer
Level: 7
Location : Arlington, VA (on-site)
Duration: 12 months, W2
Job Description:
As Corporate Security, we are responsible for keeping Mastercard safe and secure from cyber and physical threats, and it is our people on the frontlines who make this happen every day.
By taking care of our people, their wellbeing, and career development, we provide them the necessary tools and environment to ensure the success of our mission.
In this role, the Senior Security Engineer will:
Manage security assessment engagements that include the analysis of solution designs, data flow diagrams, software business cases, implementation plans, and network changes.
Provide security engineering support for Mastercard's technology imperatives that include the build-out of new data centers.
Identify opportunities for automating assessment workflows and assist with the development of scripts.
Analyze new and existing technologies and provide recommendations for areas of security risk and alignment to Mastercard’s policies and technical standards.
Collaborate with other corporate security teams to evaluate new technologies and defining security requirements.
All About You
The ideal candidate for this position should:
Be a self-starter who is able to prioritize and work independently
Have a passion to learn about new technologies, and progressively takes initiative to develop that expertise
Be able to demonstrate technical competency in security engineering based on hands-on experience or relevant qualifications
Have a solid understanding of firewalls, networking, threat prevention and detection, and application security principles
Have hands-on experience evaluating data flows, firewall policies, and access control lists
Be able to support maintenance windows outside of regular business hours (once or twice per month)
Have hands-on experience developing scripts, working with structured data formats such as YAML and JSON, and code version control systems such as GIT or Bitbucket
Have working knowledge and application of industry standards for security controls, and hardening systems and software
Have effective communication and project management skills with the ability to manage multiple engagements with diverse technical teams
National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) competency proficiency levels of limited in leadership, limited to developing in operational and professional, and developing to proficient in technical.
This Mastercard role shares KSAs with related NICE work roles
