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Title and Summary

Senior Vulnerability Analyst

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

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of an expanding Vulnerability Management function at Vocalink Limited, a company that enables the payments of 90% of salaries, 70% of utility bills, most ATM transactions and every cheque cleared in the UK.

The successful candidate will become part of a high functioning and expanding team, dedicated to delivering a robust, secure and resilient service to 60+million citizens every day with transactional volume of 11 billion/year and total annual transactional value in excess of GBP6 Trillion.

In the role of Senior Vulnerability Analyst at Vocalink Limited, your responsibilities will include supporting, maintaining, and developing the vulnerability management function within the security team. This involves identifying and reporting significant vulnerabilities across various critical national infrastructure systems.

Ensuring the protection of sensitive financial data, and maintaining the trust of our clients and stakeholders.

Role

In this technical hands-on role, the selected candidate will be located in Dunstable (With option for Harrogate).

The accountability outlined below indicate the scope of the position. The incumbent may be asked to perform job-related tasks other than those specifically stated in this description:

• Support the vulnerability management function

• To ensure that security standards, in respect of IT Security vulnerability management are incorporated and compliance sought, where required

• Ensure that regular assessments are undertaken in respect of threat alerts resulting from patching and vulnerability notifications

• Arrange vulnerability scanning, arranging tests and co-ordinating the activities of the testing teams as required

• Ensure that any changes required as a result of identified vulnerabilities and security threats are met within agreed SLAs

• Escalate critical vulnerabilities for expedited patching

• Assisting in incident investigation and support the Security Operations function where relevant.

• Point of contact for projects requiring security vulnerability management input and guidance.

• Represent the security team as a technical SME

• Identify the right tools, processes and technologies to help deliver effective and robust vulnerability management.

All About You

· Proven experience in vulnerability management in a payments or financial services environment.

· Track record of building vulnerability management programs in a complex organization.

· Experience initiating and managing improvement in Vulnerability Management.

· Strong understanding of the payments industry regulatory landscape and compliance requirements.

· An understanding of risk management.

· Relevant experience of working in a complex (preferably multi-national) stakeholder environment that includes complex customers and regulators.

· 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.

· Embodies and demonstrates all the brand values required by Vocalink and Mastercard.

· Ability to motivate and inspire teams to address vulnerabilities.

· Team player – leads by example.

· Commercially aware.

· Has a bias to action.

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.

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.