Principal Cryptographic Engineer

Mastercard is seeking candidates to join our Cryptographic Architecture and Engineering team located out of our St. Louis, MO and Waterloo, Belgium offices
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 equipment 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 development teams on how to implement securely

cryptographic algorithms, and how to interface with an Hardware Security
Module?

• Can you manage the relationship with vendors, understanding market trends,

and forecast impacts on the payment industry?

• Can you navigate through the many security frameworks (PCI, FIPS, ISO) with

respect to cryptographic standards?

• Can you properly weight the pros and cons of implementing hardware

cryptography, in order to help in the design of productive yet secure
applications?

Role

• Provide technical design and architecture advice to internal teams on how to

securely develop and build applications and supporting systems

• Define secure mechanisms for critical business functions, for both on-

premises and in cloud environments

• Work closely with Hardware Security Module vendors to follow up on product

lifecycle, product roadmap, new functionalities and issues.

• Assist in the strategy, standards, and architecture for the cryptography, PKI

and key management aspects of the SDLC including application, mobile, web
service, DevOps, cloud, and CI/CD efforts

All About You

• 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 and data privacy within the

domain of digital commerce including relevant practical experience

• Knowledge of cryptography, including several of the following: encryption,

hashing, key management, digital certificates, TLS, PKCS#11, HSMs

• Demonstrate technical competency in security engineering based on hands-

on experience or relevant qualifications

• Working knowledge and technical security experience with UNIX, Linux,

Solaris, AIX, or Windows.

• Demonstrate the ability to articulate and communicate effectively to diverse

audiences and properly translates security and risk management terminology
into business terms and recommends alternative solutions to these
stakeholders.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills
  

Role

Assist in settling and maintaining a global strategy for cryptographic tools and devices, for both on-premises and cloud-based applications. Maintain relationship with security product vendors and partners, and follow closely product roadmaps, anticipate impacts on Mastercard infrastructure. Setup and maintain measurement processes. Review and model architectures and usage patterns for HSM consumption.

Responsibilities

• Liaise with vendors and follow products used by Mastercard, from inception

to decommission.

• Collaborate with operational teams to capture device performance

information, in order to model product usage and reliability.

• Define security requirements and guidelines to ensure repeatable processes

are followed by worldwide teams

• 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

Required Skills

• Application security (in-depth knowledge)
• Cryptography
• Security engineering
• Architecture and design

Additional Nice to Have

• Application development (hands-on experience)
• Cloud security
• Experience with PKI systems and vendors
• Experience with retail/payment HSM

Other Key Words

• HSM
• PKCS#11

Guidance

• Ability to perform analysis, review and design of custom systems, not just

product implementation or operations.

• Ideally will have application development skills experience with HSM

development and/or deployment.

Relevant Previous Experience

• Security Engineering
• Security Consultant
• Application developer/architect with security experience/focus

Due to COVID-19, most of our employees are working from home. We’ve implemented a virtual hiring process and continue to interview candidates by phone or video and are onboarding new hires remotely. We value the safety of each member of our community because we know we’re all in this together.

Mastercard is an inclusive Equal Employment Opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

If you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process, please contactreasonable.accommodation@mastercard.comand identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.

Corporate Security Responsibility

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, and
• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.