Threat Detection & Response Security Engineer

Mastercard; Ciudad de México; Presencial; MXN 600.000 - 900.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Mastercard in Mexico City is seeking a Security Engineer II to help lead the Defend product's security controls, tooling, and roadmap. The role emphasizes implementing defensive configurations across EDR, DLP, Email Security, SIEM, SOAR, XDR, NGFW, UEBA, and more, while collaborating with STRM teams.

You will translate security requirements into concrete engineering tasks, participate in threat modeling, and communicate findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders to strengthen security

Formación

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, cybersecurity, information technology, engineering or a related field.
• 2–3 years of hands-on cybersecurity, security operations, incident response, detection engineering, threat hunting, or related security disciplines.
• Hands-on Security Engineer with experience across multiple security domains and SecOps functions in a large enterprise.
• Experience working in Agile or hybrid delivery models and backlog refinement.

Responsabilidades

• Implement the strategic technical roadmap for the Defend product team with defensive security controls and configurations across security tools.
• Translate security strategy into well-defined technical initiatives and deliverables.
• Act as a technical lead for the Defend feature team, ensuring engineering standards and outcomes.
• Collaborate with engineering, endpoint, identity, cloud, and SecOps teams to optimize security controls.
• Translate requirements and risk policies into actionable engineering items and backlog-ready initiatives.
• Lead security capability assessments and provide recommendations to leadership.
• Configure and optimize security tooling (EDR/XDR, NGFW, IDS, DLP, App Control).
• Monitor control effectiveness and tune detections to balance coverage and friction.
• Ensure implementations align with security standards, regulatory requirements, and best practices.

Conocimientos

Security Operations

Incident Response

Threat Detection

Detection Engineering

EDR

XDR

SIEM

SOAR

Cloud Security

Agile/Scrum

Communication

Educación

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Engineering

Herramientas

EDR

DLP

Email Security

SIEM

SOAR

XDR

NGFW

UEBA

NDR

IDS

Application Control

Descripción del empleo

Mastercard in Mexico City is seeking a Security Engineer II to help lead the Defend product's security controls, tooling, and roadmap. The role emphasizes implementing defensive configurations across EDR, DLP, Email Security, SIEM, SOAR, XDR, NGFW, UEBA, and more, while collaborating with STRM teams.

You will translate security requirements into concrete engineering tasks, participate in threat modeling, and communicate findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders to strengthen security