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 Engineer (Linux engineer with Chef, Jenkins, DevOps)

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 on engineering activities but will act as escalated support when needed by the Operations team.

Role:

•\tProficient 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.
•\tProficient 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.
•\tProficient 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.
•\tProficient to advanced knowledge in engineering the operating system management lifecycle in preparing, curating, testing and implementing new operating system images.
•\tProficient to advanced collaboration skills in partnering with program teams to define requirements.
•\tContribute to system hardening, patch management, and OS-level security controls.
•\tProficient skills in working in an Agile environment to deliver solutions for internal Mastercard customers.
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Required skills and qualifications:

•\tIntermediate to advanced system administration experience with Linux servers in physical and virtualized environments including building systems with integration to enterprise tools and components.
•\tIntermediate to advanced experience with automation technologies like Chef, Ansible, Puppet, and/or Shell scripting
•\tBasic to intermediate skills coding in Ansible, Chef, Bash, Python or Ruby.
•\tPerform advanced system diagnostics using tools like strace, lsof, perf, tcpdump, and systemtap.
•\tLead the root cause analysis of production issues, especially those involving low-level Linux syscall behavior.
•\tStrong problem-solving mindset with the ability to work under pressure.
•\tWritten, verbal, and presentation skills

Desired skills and qualifications:

•\tExperience working with containerization technologies (Kubernetes, Docker, etc.)
•\tAbility to adapt to new technologies and changing business needs.
•\tRedHat certification (Architect or 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:

•\tAbide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices.
•\tEnsure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed.
•\tReport any suspected information security violation or breach, and
•\tComplete 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.