Senior Cloud Platform Engineer, Foundry at MasterCard

Overview

Mastercard are looking for a talented Cloud platform engineer to join the Mastercard Foundry team. In this role you will work in a highly agile team to support product development and innovation projects, managing cloud-based hosting environments as well as the implementation and maintenance of development services.

Our team is built on a foundation of research and development, mining innovation internally and creating new product lines with emerging technologies. As part of Foundry, the team both supports the existing environments but also research’s new technologies and processes to continuously push our hosting environment and development experience. 

Role

• Role requires working with various cross-functional engineering specialists, project managers and application development teams to define and implement a cloud-based hosting solution
• Responsible for supporting the running applications, infrastructure and development teams on a day to day basis
• Captures technical requirements and defines technology solutions for approval; creates the  conceptual, logical, and physical design of the solution to ensure appropriate technology is acquired and implemented
• Evaluates technologies and determines strengths and weaknesses of technology architecture,  implementation and suitability; recommends solutions to ensure consistency with the company  vision
• Ensures technical feedback from stakeholders is brought back to ensure it is taken into  consideration for future technology and solution directions
• Support Mastercard Foundry’s 24 x7 Production cloud environment
• Participate in an on-call rotation with infrastructure team

All About You

Knowledge/Experience (Preferred):

• Experience building and supporting cloud & hybrid infrastructure – Azure, AWS, GCP, VmWare, OpenShift
• Experience in containerization solutions – Kubernetes (AKS, EKS, OCP), Docker
• Experienced in pipeline development for CI/CD
• Solid grasp of configuration management and infrastructure automation tools like Ansible, Terraform, Chef, Puppet
• Strong knowledge of code versioning and build tools such as Jenkins, Git, Artifactory

Additional Experience (Beneficial)

• Having any of the following will also be beneficial but not essential:
• Solid networking background (TCP/IP, TLS & cert management, Load Balancing, Routing, Switching & IP networking
• Any experience supporting database instances – RDBMS or NoSQL (e.g. Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB) 
• Experience with environmental and application monitoring tools (e.g Splunk, Grafana, DynaTrace, Zabbix, Nagios, Prometheus, ELK etc)
• Any Cloud deployment certification - AWS Certified Solutions Architect, or MCSE Cloud Platform & infrastructure 
• Ai/ML & Data science knowledge & experience

Skills/Abilities: 

• High energy, can-do attitude, with a strong desire to succeed & learn
• Strong Analytical skills
• Good communication skills
• Self-motivated with the ability to work on own initiative

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.