Lead, Cryptographic Security Engineer

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.

Lead, Cryptographic Security Engineer

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.
Mission First, People Always
As Corporate Security, we are responsible for keeping Mastercard safe and secure from cyber and physical threats, and it is our people on the front lines 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.
Overview
Mastercard is seeking candidates to join the global Enterprise Cryptography team!

Mastercard is developing the next generation of applications and services to enable consumers and businesses to securely, efficiently, and intelligently conduct payment transactions, and is leveraging state-of-the-art cryptographic practices to protect its assets.

Whether through traditional retail, mobile, or e-commerce, Mastercard innovation is leading the digital convergence of traditional and emerging payments technologies across a wide variety of new devices and services.

• Can you demonstrate expertise in information security, and more specifically, with cryptography?
• Can you advise teams on how to implement secure cryptography for data at rest and in transit?
• Can you navigate through the many security frameworks (PCI, FIPS, ISO) with respect to cryptographic standards?

• Contribute to the execution the Cryptographic roadmap for Mastercard –enhancing security posture and enforcing governance and compliance to the Cryptographic and Key Management standards
• Analyze current cryptographic implementations and identify deviations from our standards
• Provide technical design and architecture advice to internal teams on how to securely develop and build applications and supporting systems
• Partner with application teams to determine path to compliance - articulate short, medium and long term plans when necessary
• Define secure mechanisms for critical business functions, for both on-premises and in cloud environments
• Assist in the strategy, standards, and architecture for the cryptography, PKI and key management aspects of the SDLC including application, mobile, web service, Dev Ops, cloud, and CI/CD efforts
• Define security requirements and guidelines to ensure repeatable processes are followed globally
• Assist in the strategy, standards, and architecture for the security aspects of key management and operation
• Provide security advice in cryptography, including several of the following: encryption, hashing, key management, digital certificates, TLS
• Build out next generation governance model with the intent of understanding our assets and protecting them with proper encryption practices

• 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
• Strong understanding of information security, risk…