Senior Security Monitoring and Response Analyst

Mastercard Inc.; Hayes End; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Mastercard Vocalink is seeking a Senior Security Monitoring and Response Analyst to join the UK team. The role focuses on triaging alerts, investigating escalated incidents, and driving improvements to detection and response capabilities within a critical payments infrastructure.

The ideal candidate will bring hands-on SOC experience, incident response and digital forensics skills, with strong collaboration across security engineering, threat intelligence and managed SOC partners.

Qualifications

• Direct experience in a Security Operations Center (SOC).
• Experience in incident response or digital forensics.
• Experience with cybersecurity disciplines including vulnerability research, network analysis, malware analysis, forensics, memory analysis, web security, threat hunting.

Responsibilities

• Provide monitoring coverage, triage and investigation of escalated alerts (T3).
• Respond to cybersecurity incidents using playbooks and critical thinking.
• Apply root cause analysis and lessons learned to improve security posture.
• Collaborate with security engineering, threat intel, insider threat, and managed SOC services.
• Develop knowledge base, playbooks and use cases with the team.
• Support proactive initiatives and projects with subject matter expertise.
• Work independently and with teams to assess impact, mitigate risk, and resolve incidents.

Skills

SOC experience

Incident response

Playbooks

SIEM SPL

Cloud security

EDR/NDR

IoCs/IoAs

ATT&CK

Threat hunting

Windows forensics

GCP/AWS/Azure

Communication

Tools

NDR/EDR tools

Job description

Our Purpose 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

Senior Security Monitoring and Response Analyst Overview Mastercard Vocalink is looking for a driven and motivated Senior Security Operations Analyst with Incident Response capabilities, to contribute to securing critical payments infrastructure in the UK. In this role you’ll be responsible for triaging alerts and responding to security incidents. When not actively engaged in ongoing incidents, the team works on the improvement and streamlining of the detection and response function.

Role Responsibilities

• Providing monitoring coverage, triage and investigation of escalated alerts (T3) from various sources.
• Responding to cybersecurity incidents through critical thinking, defining, and applying playbook responses.
• Applying root cause analysis and lessons learned to improve security posture and processes.
• Working closely with security engineering, threat intelligence, insider threat and a managed SOC service, providing critical feedback to improve and automate monitoring and response.
• Strong collaboration with the team to develop knowledge base, playbook and use cases.
• Proactive initiatives and project-related support by providing subject matter expertise.
• Ability to work independently as well as collaborate with different teams to assess impact, mitigate risk, and resolve security incidents.

Qualifications

• Required Experience: Direct experience in a Security Operations Center (SOC).
• Experience working in an incident response or digital forensics role.
• Demonstrated experience with cybersecurity related disciplines, not limited to: e.g. vulnerability research, network traffic analysis, static and dynamic malware analysis, digital forensics, memory analysis, web-security and threat hunting.
• Preferred Experience: Experience in creating queries and alerts in a SIEM, preferably in SPL.
• Experience with Windows/Unix OS forensics.
• Experience with Cloud Security (Azure, AWS, GCP).
• Experience working with NDR/EDR solutions.
• Familiarity with Indicators of Compromise (IoCs), Indicators of Attack (IoAs), ATT&CK Tools, Techniques and Procedures (TTPs).
• Strong interpersonal skills, including good communication with the ability to articulate ideas in a precise and concise manner.
• CISSP, GIAC certifications or equivalent.

The Ideal candidate is a technically inclined and experienced security specialist who enjoys working in a fast-paced collaborative team environment.

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.

Everyone wants easier ways to pay; we invent them. Checkout lines are slow; we speed them along. Merchants want more sales; we give them data and insights. People need financial access; we connect them. Corporate purchasing is complicated; we make it simple. Commuters are busy; we speed them on their way. Governments need greater efficiencies; we help create them. Small businesses are virtual; we give them access to a world of buyers. Retailers want to fight fraud; we provide the tools.