Lead Disaster Recovery Analyst, Cloud Resilience

Title and Summary

Lead Disaster Recovery Analyst, Cloud Resilience

Overview:
The Lead Analyst for Enterprise Resilience within the Corporate Security Organization is primarily responsible for supporting the resiliency of the organization to enable business acceleration by ensuring the business's current cloud strategy is resilient and makes recommendations as new technologies become available to ensure increased resilience.

Role:
• Make recommendations to management for improvements to the policy governing Cloud Computing to improve resilience across Mastercard's cloud computing platforms.
• Advocate for the use of automation whenever possible to reduce human error.
• Work with application teams to identify and document resiliency risks and remediation plans.
• Implement a Cloud Security Structure to align with relevant certification standards such as the Center for Internet Security (CIS) Cloud Security Benchmarks, the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Controls Matrix and the Cloud Architecture.
• Have a high-level understanding and comprehension of regional regulations and guidelines.
• Partner with Resilience Planning (RP) to support regulatory compliance when necessary. Partner with all appropriate Risk functions to ensure required attestations to regulators and other bodies are made in line with program framework and regulatory expectations.
• Partner with the team's technology recovery contact to ensure system impact analysis, recovery plans and exercises are performed as designated by policy.
• Participate in Risk Reviews when appropriate.

All About You:
• Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP), AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional, Microsoft Azure Cloud Architect, Certified Business Continuity Planner (CBCP) / comparable certificate or education.
• Strong analytical background with the ability to identify deficiencies in recovery strategies, plans, and internal processes.
• Knowledge of existing, emerging, and long-range issues related to cloud security, policy, and organization.
• Ability to adapt to known and unknown crises, threats, adversities, and challenges.
• Experience conducting comprehensive risk assessments of information systems, applications, and processes to identify potential vulnerabilities, threats, and impacts.
• Experience monitoring and analyzing emerging cloud threats and trends to proactively identify potential risks.
• Understanding of best cloud organizational practices, operations risk management processes, architectural requirements, and vulnerability risk.
• Fusion Risk Management Business Continuity software experience advantageous.

Mastercard is an 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. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.com 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 based on location, experience and other qualifications for the role and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. 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 new parent leave, up to 20 paid days bereavement leave), 10 annual paid sick days, 10 or more annual paid vacation days based on level, 5 personal days, 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, gender-inclusive benefits and many more.