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.