Senior Platform Engineer

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 Platform EngineerWho is Mastercard?

We are the global technology company behind the world's fastest payments processing network. We are a vehicle for commerce, a connection to financial systems for the previously excluded, a technology innovation lab, and the home of Priceless. We ensure every employee has the opportunity to be a part of something bigger and to change lives. We believe as our company grows, so should you. We believe in connecting everyone to endless, priceless possibilities.

Overview

The Data & Services team is a key differentiator for Mastercard, providing the cutting-edge services that help our customers grow. Focused on thinking big and scaling fast around the globe, this agile team is responsible for end-to-end solutions for a diverse global customer base. Centered on data-driven technologies and innovation, these services include payments-focused consulting, loyalty and marketing programs, business Test & Learn experimentation, and data-driven information and risk management services.

Mastercard's Data & Services Infrastructure Delivery team is responsible for the deployment, configuration, maintenance, backup and support of multiple on-premise and cloud hosted data centers. In this role, you will be given the ownership and resources to solve challenging technical problems. Our Systems Engineers have the opportunity to build a long-term and exciting career in a dynamic technology oriented and rapidly growing organization.

Job Title

Senior Systems Engineer – Data & Services

Are you an experienced information technologist who is excited by…

Automating routine tasks and making systems more efficient?

Being part of an innovative, technologically advanced team?

Learning about new and staying on the cutting-edge of technology?

Working through challenging technical problems of deploying additional environments in new datacenters as we scale globally?

Role

Procuring, installing, managing, and monitoring physical and virtual infrastructure in both local and remote geographies

Automating commonly performed tasks, using scripting tools such as Powershell, Ansible, and Python

Experience managing and deploying large scale multi-forest Active Directory architecture

Supporting multi-geography, multi-cloud deployments across the Azure, AWS, and GCP

Familiarity supporting virtualization platforms Hyper-V, VMware, and KVM

Work with internal stakeholders to provision, provide access, and troubleshoot various testing and production resources

Manage backup and recovery operations for multiple data centers across geography, backing up multiple petabytes of data weekly

Documenting commonly encountered issues and creating documentation on newly implemented systems on various Atlassian products

Participate in on call rotations, responding to after-hours incidents in a timely manner

About You

Experience with Microsoft Enterprise Products (Active Directory, Windows Server. SQL Server, etc)

Strong desire and prior experience automating common tasks

Ability to solve complex problems independently and in a team setting

Competency using industry standard automation/scripting languages (e.g. Powershell, SQL, Python)

Experience with cloud technology such as Azure, AWS, Google Cloud

Experience deploying and supporting VMWare at an enterprise level

Experience with Terraform, or Ansible

Background on cloud native tooling and orcestration technologies (Kubernetes)

Ability to juggle competing tasks and prioritize

Proven ability to communicate with team members effectively

Strong analytical, and problem-solving skills

Understanding of working in an agile team environment

Proven ability to build trust and partnership with stakeholders

Strong sense of urgency and drive

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.