Director, Information Security Engineering
Mastercard
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- Why do you want to join Mastercard?
- How would you cut the cloud bill of a system without hurting it?
- How do you keep secrets and access safe in your infrastructure?
- Walk me through how code gets from a commit to production where you work.
- Tell me about an outage you handled. What did you learn from it?
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Practise the Director, Information Security Engineering at Mastercard interview free →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 Director, Information Security Engineering The Business Security Enablement Guild is looking for a Director - Information Security Engineer to join our team in support of Core Payments. The ideal candidate is passionate about cybersecurity policies and governance, highly motivated, analytical, experienced in cybersecurity, and knowledgeable in cloud service deployment. In this role, you will: • Provide technical design and architecture advice to internal teams • Proactively work to find solutions that align with business needs while operating within Mastercard’s risk tolerance that are scalable and can be applied across multiple programs and platforms. • Cultivate and maintain working relationships with variety of internal stakeholders, including business owners, end-users, customers, project managers, engineers, and senior leadership • Leverage security experience and knowledge within the security operations and technology • Define security requirements and guidelines to ensure repeatable processes are followed by global teams • Assist in the strategy, standards, and architecture for the security aspects of the Security operation, architecture, and program health All About You The ideal candidate for this position should have: • Strong understanding of information security, risk and data privacy within the domain of digital commerce including relevant practical experience, integration of different security technologies, and designing secure multi-domain solutions • Demonstrate a broad awareness of security operations concepts and practices across all phases of the delivery lifecycle • Experience providing security architecture advice for web-based network environments and secure communication, including mobile applications, web applications and web services • Knowledge of relevant industry standards and guidelines such as ISO27001, PCI-DSS, NIST SP800-53, COBIT • Knowledge and technical security experience in cryptography, including several of the following: encryption, hashing, key management, digital certificates, TLS • Experience of continuous delivery/continuous integration processes and procedures including critical security considerations in automated workflows • Strong knowledge of Security Operations and Integration in an enterprise environment NICE Framework References • National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) competency proficiency levels of advanced to expert in the following areas (recommended no more than 6): • Data Analysis • Encryption • Identity Management • Intelligence Analysis • Software Development • Threat Analysis 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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