Platform Engineer I (DevOps)

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

Platform Engineer I (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
Good opportunity for a solid performance tuning and Linux administrator to join a great team and have a direct impact on critical Mastercard services. You’ll play a meaningful role in performance analysis, tuning, troubleshooting and recommendations for optimizations of critical services running on Linux either as VMs or Containers

Job Description: Mastercard is currently looking for an individual with Linux experience to support, manage and enhance all administrative functions associated with Mastercard Physical Edge servers in an automated and proactive manner. You’ll play a meaningful role in the day-to-day operations of services relied upon across Mastercard.

Responsibilities:
• Using automation and advanced monitoring to deploy, manage and ensure stability and high availability of multiple Virtual Machines running on a large server fleet of Linux servers (RHEL/CENTOS).
• Automate operational and server provisioning workflows using Ansible
• Prevent customer impact through excellent monitoring and pre-emptive actions but if incidents do occur address them in a timely manner.
• Ability to work a rotational on-call schedule
• Maintain an up-to-date knowledge of DevSecOps standard tools, administration best practices, and agile methodology best practices
• Operate within the ITIL model including Incident Management, Change Management and Problem Management


Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
• At least 0.5 to 1.5 years of hands on experience in DevOps area.
• hands on experience with Ansible in creation/modification of infrastructure as code configurations
• Extensively worked on Jenkins for continuous Integration and End - to-End automation for all builds and deployments.
• Experience using Splunk, Dynatrace for analysis and maintaining logs.
• Scripting experience (Shell, PERL, Python, BASH or similar)
• Experience with firewall technologies
• Experience with creating and improving documented procedures using Ansible playbooks.
• Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills.
• Learning mindset, exposure to AI tools and innovative mindset

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.