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
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 Global Open Banking team is looking for a Senior Cloud Software Engineer to drive our customer experience strategy forward by consistently innovating and problem-solving. The ideal candidate is passionate about the customer experience journey, highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical and agile mindset.
Role
In this role, you will:• Participate in the implementation of new systems, develop strategic thinking and develop process, tools, and frameworks to help ensure effectiveness across teams• Plan and execute maintenance, upgrades, and migrations activities in different environements as Dev, Stage, and Prod • Design and develop resilient scalable infrastructure that avoids downtime and service interruptions• Interface with external logging, monitoring, and security vendors• Build out infrastructure as code, standard system images, and application images in Docker• Oversees and provides technical support to junior team members
All About You
Skills and experience required to be successful in this role:• Experience with AWS Cloud, developing solution offerings for new and existing Cloud projects. Demonstrate a intermediate level of knowledge and understanding of various AWS service offerings including VPC (NAT Gateways, Internet Gateways, Routing Tables, Subnets), aspects of EC2 (Auto scaling groups, launch configurations, spot instances, reserved instances, volumes, and different types of load balancers• Kubernetes experience, managing large scale kubernetes clusters. Experience with kops provided cluster, alternate CNIs and managing scalability of the cluster • Infrastructure as Code Experience, demonstrate Intermediate to Advanced level of programming methodologies used to augment terraform using Python, bash, or Go and related programming tools such as VSCode and git• Participated in the code review and deployment process • Experience in backup and restoration of kubernetes clusters • Be creative with solutioning yet be simple with implementation
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.
Skills Required
- Experience with AWS Cloud and developing solutions for new and existing cloud projects
- Intermediate knowledge of AWS VPC, NAT gateways, internet gateways, routing tables, subnets, and EC2 services
- Experience managing large-scale Kubernetes clusters
- Experience with kops-provided Kubernetes clusters and alternate CNIs
- Experience managing Kubernetes cluster scalability
- Infrastructure as Code experience, including Terraform
- Intermediate to advanced programming experience with Python, Bash, or Go to augment Terraform
- Experience with code review and deployment processes
- Experience backing up and restoring Kubernetes clusters
- Experience with Docker and application or system image development
- Experience providing technical support to junior team members
Mastercard Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Retirement Support — Retirement plans are highlighted as especially strong, featuring a notably generous company match and added financial-planning resources. Feedback suggests this component stands out as a key strength of the overall package.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental and family benefits are consistently portrayed as robust, including extended new-parent leave and assistance for fertility, adoption, and surrogacy. Feedback suggests these programs are a signature part of the offering.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off is described as substantial, with multiple leave types and generous vacation and personal days noted in U.S. materials. Feedback suggests time off is frequently praised as a differentiator.
Mastercard Insights
What We Do
Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re building a resilient 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.
Why Work With Us
We live the Mastercard Way: creating value in the communities we touch, growing together through the opportunities we see, and moving fast to innovate and scale. Our collaborative culture and our passionate people are the key to what we do, driving meaningful change as one team and connecting everyone to priceless possibilities.
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