Description
Our Purpose
We work 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. We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.
Title and Summary
Security Network Lead Overview• Responsible for the development, delivery, maintenance or monitoring of Network Security policies, standards, and best practices
• Responsible for every aspect of data safety in the network ensuring there are minimal risk to the organisation by adopting and integrating the right technology
• Implements risk management procedures, performs security threat assessments, manages user identities and access, and oversees compliance
• Work in partnership with the wider organisation such as security architect and technology to design and implement network security blueprint
• Build blueprints, models and strategies to strengthen the security of network
• Supports network security assessments and risk analysis, and makes recommendations to improve network security
Role
• Leads complex initiatives and projects
• Applies technical capabilities within own discipline to coach and develop junior employees
• Provides input into performance appraisal process for some junior employees or team members
• Liaises with business leaders to proactively identify the security impact of implementations across the organization
• Analyses security reporting and daily logs, seeking trends and identifying and implementing opportunities to improve systems, processes or protocols
• Establishes security procedures for products, applications, and platforms, and acts as a go-to technical resource for risky or unusual security or compliance matters
• Ensures periodic testing of the organisation's network and systems from a security point of view
• Oversees the maintenance of firewalls, VPNs, VLAN and so on
All About You
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to effectively communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to think critically and creatively to identify and mitigate security risks.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience initiating and managing improvement in areas of security by leveraging process metrics.
• Strong understanding of the payments industry regulatory landscape and compliance requirements.
• Ability to articulate themselves clearly and concisely to a broad range of senior and junior stakeholders, acting as a bridge as well as guide for the implementation of new capabilities.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across departments.
• Ability to motivate, inspire and lead people effectively.
• Line manager and a team player – leads by example.
• Strategic thinker – able to develop and communicate direction.
• Commercially aware.
• Has a bias to action.
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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