Linux Platform Engineer II

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

Linux Platform Engineer IIWho 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 System Platform Engineer II. The System Platform Engineer II will have proven experience implementing server-based solutions. The position includes skills in automation, deployment, and maintaining the lifecycle of the platform. The Systems Platform Engineer II is mostly focused on engineering activities but will act as escalated support when needed by the Operations team.

Typical duties and responsibilities:
· Basic 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.
· Basic to 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 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 skills in developing processes and documentation to help increase functionality and efficiency of available infrastructure in Distributed Platforms.
· Basic to proficient knowledge in engineering the Patch management lifecycle with ability to prepare, curate, stage, test and implement enterprise patching on operating systems.
· Basic to proficient knowledge in engineering the operating system management lifecycle in preparing, curating, testing and implementing new operating system images.
· Basic to proficient collaboration skills in partnering with program teams to define requirements.
· Proficient skills in creating and maintaining documentation for procedures, configurations, and programs for the internal team.
Basic to proficient skills in working in an Agile environment to deliver solutions for internal Mastercard customers.

Required skills and qualifications:
· Basic to intermediate system Administration experience with Linux servers in physical and virtualized environments including building systems with integration to enterprise tools and components.
· Basic to intermediate experience with automation technologies like Chef, Ansible, Puppet, and/or Shell scripting
· Basic coding skills in Ansible, Chef, Bash, Python or Ruby.
· Communication and documentation skills
· Problem-solving and analytical skills

Desired skills and qualifications:
· Basic understanding of compute theory from hardware through serverless abstraction.
· Basic understanding of containerization technologies (Kubernetes, Docker, etc.)
· Ability to adapt to new technologies and changing business needs
· RedHat certification (Administrator)

Corporate Security Responsibility Every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security. All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and therefore, it is expected that the successful candidate for this position 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.

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.

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