Lead Platform Engineer - Unix/Linux Join to apply for the Lead Platform Engineer - Unix/Linux role at Mastercard 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 Lead Platform Engineer - Unix/Linux Overview As a Virtualisation & Compute systems platform engineer you would be focused on build, implementation and support of Mastercard ONE (RTP & Applications) Virtualisation & Compute platforms (UNIX, Linux, Redhat, VMware). The role requires a focus on service to ensure that all SLA’s and availability targets are met. It also requires thought leadership and an ability to drive IT initiatives that continually improve our efficiency, agility, performance, availability and operational excellence. Responsibilities

Coordinates the building and maintaining of system and platform technologies and environments, including associated software products Performs lifecycle management for supported hardware platforms, including technical refresh planning and capacity upgrades Participates in the planning and implementation of system/platform updates to optimize performance, efficiency, and capacity Performs holistic platform security posture which includes identifying risks, escalating potential concerns, and implementing both risk mitigation plans and control functions Completes status reports, troubleshooting guides, and project plans to provide in-depth technical assistance to development programmers and customers Resolves chronic complex problems, providing managerial operational support to maintain systems and platforms Assists 3rd line support in the analysis of root causes of all major issues, planning redesigns where appropriate Works in partnership with 3rd party suppliers, understanding and implementing industry best practice across our technology stack

Experience

Experience leading a major work stream or multiple smaller work streams for a large platform system domain initiative, often providing technical guidance and advice to ensure consistent deployment of solutions Implement UNIX/Linux/Platform installs and upgrades Implement UNIX/Linux/Platform 3rd Party Software installs and upgrades Document and manage change to existing hardware/software platforms Experience setting priorities, objectives, and driving deliverables within global technology domains and sub-domains Experience engaging with the broader technical community to anticipate developments in innovation, often evaluating new solutions and recommending future business platform system requirements Experience performing process improvements and automation activities for operational and financial value, applying tools and technologies Successfully served as a go-to person to resolve and prevent platform system infrastructure issues, deriving impactful solutions

Technical and Professional Skills

RedHat - Advanced Terraform & Ansible – Advanced DevOps Tooling (Jenkins, Argo, Ansible, Git, Azure DevOps, Terraform) Infrastructure As Code experience - Advanced Infrastructure & Network awareness – Advanced At least one shell scripting language (Bash, Bourne,Go-lang, Python, C-Shell) Patching & Live upgrades – Advanced Volume Managers, ZFS, VXFM - Advanced Clustering experience - Intermediate Virtual Machine Management – Advanced VMWare – Advanced Exposure to public Cloud Services (Azure & AWS) – Advanced Exposure to private Cloud services (Azure Stack) – Intermediate Portworx - Advanced Converged experience (exadata, supercluster or vblock) – Intermediate OpenShift (Kubernetes) - Advanced X86 hardware – Advanced Networking skills TCP/IP, DNS, SSH, LDAP – Advanced Automation and exposure to scripting (Python, Bash) - Advanced Jumpstart - Intermediate Satellite - Intermediate Splunk – Basic Qualys – Basic Broad experience across Service Management disciplines. Storage technologies – Basic Backup technologies – Basic Atlassian experience – Jira, Confluence – Intermediate Agile methodology awareness (Scrum/Kanban) – Intermediate HSM experience - Intermediate

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.

Seniority Level Mid-Senior level Employment Type Full-time Job Function Engineering and Information Technology Industries Financial Services, IT Services and IT Consulting, Technology, Information and Internet #J-18808-Ljbffr