Senior Platform Engineer

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.

Title and Summary

Senior Platform Engineer - Linux

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

The Distributed Platform organization at Mastercard is looking for a Senior System Platform Engineer. The Senior System Platform Engineer will have proven experience architecting, designing, and implementing server based solutions. The position includes skills in automation, deployment, and maintaining the lifecycle of the platform. The Senior Systems Platform Engineer is mostly focused in engineering activities, but will act as escalated support when needed by the Operations team.

Typical duties and responsibilities

Proficient skills in designing, testing, and implementing automation for internal processes in Server Builds, Operating System management, Patch Management, and/or Configuration Management on physical and virtual infrastructure and operating systems.

Proficient knowledge and ability to create and/or modify scripts or code to provide automation, diagnostics, or logging for operational tasks that is standardized on behalf of the department.

Proficient to advanced collaboration skills in partnering closely with Operations as third tier support in trouble-shooting networking, operating systems, and applications to identify and correct malfunctions and other operational problems.

Basic to proficient knowledge and proven track record in developing processes and documentation to help increase functionality and efficiency of available infrastructure in Distributed Platforms.

Proficient knowledge and proven track record in engineering the Patch management lifecycle with ability to prepare, curate, stage, test and implement enterprise patching on operating systems.

Proficient to advanced knowledge in engineering the Linux (preferable RHEL, OEL, or similar distros) operating system management lifecycle in preparing, curating, testing and implementing new operating system images.

Proficient to advanced knowledge and ability to partner with Information Security in defining, designing, implementing and supporting Mastercard security policy standards.

Proficient knowledge and proven ability in installing, configuring and maintaining physical and virtual servers in an environment following Mastercard standards.

Proficient to advanced collaboration skills in partnering with program teams to define requirements.

Proficient to advanced knowledge and proven track record in developing processes and procedural documentation for architecture, design, and functionality of infrastructure in Distributed Platforms.

Proficient to advanced skills in creating and maintaining documentation for procedures, configurations, and programs and providing information to external teams.

Proficient leadership experience growing, mentoring, and motivating a team by instilling a technical process improvement culture within Distributed Platforms in a positive manner.

Proficient skills in working in an Agile environment to deliver solutions for internal Mastercard customers.

Required skills and qualifications (Linux)

Intermediate to advanced system administration experience with Linux servers in physical and virtualized environments including building systems with integration to enterprise tools and components.

Intermediate to advanced experience with automation technologies like Chef, Ansible, Puppet, and/or Shell scripting

Basic to intermediate skills coding in Ansible, Chef, Bash, Python or Ruby

Basic to intermediate skills in engineering Linux solutions

Written, verbal, and presentation skills

Skills in problem solving, multitasking, troubleshooting skills and attention to details

Desired skills and qualifications (Linux):

Basic to intermediate understanding of compute theory from hardware through serverless abstraction.

Experience working with containerization technologies (Kubernetes, Docker, etc.)

Ability to adapt to new technologies and changing business needs

RedHat (or similar) certification (Architect or Administrator)

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 [redacted] 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.

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