Mastercard Australia
Summer Intern InfoSec Engineer (Dec 2024)
Sydney
Opportunity expired
Opportunity details
- Internship, Clerkship or Placement
- AUD 54000 / Year
- AUD 4500 / month
- 1 vacancy
- Apply by 12 Jun 2024
- Start date 3 Dec 2024
Our Purpose
We work 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. We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.
Job Title
Intern, InfoSec Engineer (2025 Summer Internship)
Company Overview
Mastercard is a global technology company that operates the world's fastest payments processing network. Our mission is to connect everyone to endless, priceless possibilities by providing a vehicle for commerce, a connection to financial systems for the previously excluded, a technology innovation lab, and the home of Priceless®. We believe in empowering our employees to be a part of something bigger and to change lives while providing endless opportunities for professional growth and development.
Our Summer Intern program is a 10-week comprehensive program that offers exposure to multiple business areas and practices, and potential for a Graduate role in our Launcher program. As an intern, you will gain hands-on experience in a real work environment while contributing to the department's objectives. You will also be tasked with completing projects that will enhance your skills and knowledge relevant to the Information Security Engineer role.
Job Description
As an Information Security Engineer Intern with Mastercard's Corporate Security team, you will play a role in ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of all our operations and data. This is a critical concern in today's interconnected business environment, with increasingly sophisticated threats. However, it also presents a clear opportunity for Mastercard, requiring strategic thinking and decisive action.
Responsibilities
- Develop an understanding of security policies and regulatory compliance (i.e. PCI, GDPR)
- Develop technical aptitude in complex technologies and strategies.
- Work on projects with members of the Information Security team.
- Participate in social events with other Mastercard interns.
- Deliver a presentation on learnings at the end of the program.
Requirements
- Currently in your penultimate year of a bachelor's degree program majoring in Cybersecurity or a related field with an expected graduation date between June 2025 and December 2025
- Experience in technical skills (i.e. code development, platform management, sys admin, etc.)
- Understanding of security services (authentication, vulnerability management, security log monitoring)
- Willingness to collaborate and learn.
- Curious mindset
- Strong communication and presentation skills
- Able to commit to an internship period from 4 December 2024 to 2 February 2025 (Note: designated start/end dates cannot be negotiated).
Join us and be a part of a leading payments and technology company that believes in endless, priceless possibilities for everyone!
Internship Period: 4 December 2024 to 6 February 2025
Visa Sponsorship: Mastercard Australia cannot sponsor intern and full-time employment visas, and only candidates who possess full legal working rights in Australia will be considered (PRs & Citizens of AUS/NZ only).
Application Requirements: Please merge your CV, cover letter, and transcript into one PDF document and upload it during your application. The application end date will be announced later.
Corporate Security Responsibility
All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks come 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 the breach, and
- Complete all periodic mandatory security training in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.
Hiring criteria
- No experience required
- Australian Citizen +more
- Business & Management +more
- Bachelor or higher
Reviews
I support both strategy and platform projects by taking meeting notes, helping plan workshops/interviews and create presentation packs.
Software engineer, I focus on executing and maintaining tests and testing environments
I work on different types of projects within my team, but also get the opportunity to organise and facilitate events to connect with our external partners and clients. I also do a lot of market research and analysis in my role, which is great as I get to utilize the skills I gained from my Masters degree.
About the employer
Mastercard Australia
4.4
1,000 - 50,000 employees
Technology
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry
Pros and cons of working at Mastercard Australia
Pros
I love all the opportunities for growth and development within MC. From early on in the graduate program, I have had exposure to high impact projects and can see and feel the difference that I make at work each day. I also love that we have such a social graduate program, with events organised regularly and plenty of networking opportunities with people from across the business.
Opportunities to work at forefront of payments technology and solve interesting problems; collaborative and respective working environment and culture with a strong focus on work/life balance and employee wellbeing; calibre of talent.
Ability to work on highly important value-add projects, clients and initiatives Senior leadership engagement day-to-day and involvement in broader initiatives Flexibility to rotate into different roles and work across teams
Good Culture, lots of team social and bonding opportunities, good personalities on the team
The innovative, fast-paced environment that encourages cross-divisional work and constant learning.
Cons
It was a tough learning curve at the start. Having never worked in the payments space, there was a lot of jargon and business processes that I didn't understand.
Being a larger, publicly listed organisation - we can be bogged down by bureaucracy and processes which are apparent to me having come from a start-up space previously.
The Melbourne office is relatively small when compared to Sydney and others, allowing for less network-building/work social scene.
Subject to global policies that don't always suit or consider the local situation; compensation is less competitive
The average age tends to be a little high so it can make organizing things like after-work drinks etc. more difficult than other places I have worked.