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_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

Security Monitoring and Response Analyst II

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.

Overview

Overview

The Mastercard Global Fusion Center, based in the St. Louis Tech Hub, serves as the central point for global coordination, connecting teams and intelligence across cyber, fraud, and geopolitical domains to strengthen enterprise resilience. It integrates intelligence from these areas to proactively monitor, detect, and respond to threats that could impact Mastercard’s technology, reputation, or personnel. By uniting global teams and streamlining response efforts, the Fusion Center ensures rapid, coordinated action during critical events and drives continuous improvement in enterprise resilience.

The Mastercard Global Fusion Center is looking for a Security Monitoring and Response Analyst II to drive our customer experience strategy forward by consistently innovating and problem-solving. The ideal candidate is passionate about collaboration, communication and culture. They will have advanced presentation skills, be highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical, and possess a futurist mindset.

Role

In this position, you will:

• Drive end-to-end project management, including initiating and tracking Fusion Center projects and workstreams across cyber, geopolitical, fraud, and enterprise resilience domains.

• Lead and coordinate enterprise incident response efforts during critical events, ensuring aligned situational awareness across global operations that impact technology, reputation, personnel, and business continuity.

• Develop and deliver high-quality briefs, reports, and presentations for executives, preparedness exercises, and collaboration sessions.

• Analyze threats and opportunities, synthesize findings into actionable insights, and communicate results effectively by leveraging partner capabilities and resources.

• Assist in coordinating large-scale preparedness exercises, including Threatcasting and threat briefings, to advance enterprise resilience.

• Increase the maturity of key Fusion Center capabilities across governance, people, processes, and technology to help Mastercard achieve integrated cyber defense, proactively monitor, detect, investigate, and respond to known and unknown attacks.

• Host tours and serve as a security ambassador internally and externally, showcasing Fusion Center capabilities and fostering a culture of security awareness.

• Support key internal and external relationships with industry, law enforcement agencies, and vendor partners to strengthen collaboration and threat response capabilities.

• Protect Mastercard and its stakeholders

All About You

• Excellent communication, listening & facilitation skills

• Excellent organizational and project management skills, with the ability to prioritize multiple initiatives, manage complex timelines, and deliver results in fast-paced, dynamic environments.

• Sound judgment, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities

• Possess a personal passion for fostering a culture of decency, collaboration, and team spirit

• Experience managing senior-level relationships

• Experience mentoring and coaching others

• Excellent ability to take a pragmatic approach to dealing with situations where confidentiality is important or where our work is of a sensitive nature

• Excellent ability to anticipate threats and risks, articulate threat risk to stakeholders and make thoughtful, balance recommendations to stakeholders

• Experience using tools like Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, Word, PowerBI, PowerAutomate, Teams and Threat Intelligence platforms like Recorded Future.

• Some knowledge in least two of as the following cybersecurity disciplines: Fusion Center, Security Operations Center, Network Security, Incident Response, Forensics, Threat Intelligence, Vulnerability Management, Risk Management, or Business Operations

The ideal candidate for this position should:

• Have a clear mission that focuses on protecting Mastercard, our employees and the payments ecosystem

• Have experience creating presentations using common applications, developing graphs and visuals from various data sources, and experience working with others to coordinate meetings and events

• Continually look at the Fusion Center processes to see what can be done better or where automation is possible

• Go out of your way to get close to the Fusion Center partners to find out what their needs are and how you can help

• Identify areas where resources fall short of needs and provide thoughtful and sustainable solutions to benefit the team

• Be skilled at explaining technical problems succinctly and clearly

• Be a strong, confident, and exacting writer and speaker, able to communicate your vision and roadmap effectively to a wide variety of stakeholders

• Always look for potential solutions to solve problems

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.

NOTE: Candidates go through a thorough screening and interview process. There is no need to include all preferred skills in the job description.

Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal 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. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact [email protected] and 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

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.

In line with Mastercard’s total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. The base salary offered may vary depending on multiple factors, including but not limited to location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance); flexible spending account and health savings account; paid leaves (including 16 weeks of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave); 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time, 25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days, pro-rated based on date of hire; 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays; 401k with a best-in-class company match; deferred compensation for eligible roles; fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities; eligibility for tuition reimbursement; and many more. Mastercard benefits for interns generally include: 56 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time; jury duty leave; and on-site fitness facilities in some locations.

Pay Ranges

O'Fallon, Missouri: $75,000 - $125,000 USD