Senior Platform Engineer (Oracle/cassandra / postgresql)

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Our Purpose

We work 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. We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.

Title and Summary

Senior Platform Engineer (Oracle/cassandra / postgresql)

Our Purpose

We work 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. We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.

Title and Summary

The team offers robust event management, correlation, automation, and runbook solutions to help MasterCard deliver continuous uptime of business services and applications and optimize operations costs and efficiency.
Provides on the ground day-to-day support strategies to ensure high availability of Mastercard services.
Enables implementation of quality engineering best practices to deliver services and solutions that meet stakeholders needs (e.g., consumers, merchants, issuers, governments)
Leads teams providing highly reliable services and support, resolving first level escalation issues as they arise.
Planning and execution of RE methodologies in coordination with Lead Engineers to build high quality services and better products.
• This individual will work closely with technology support teams and application teams to monitor and improve the application and infrastructure availability.
• Key questions for viable candidates:
1. Have you resolved a complex application availability issue with monitoring and coordination with various internal technology teams?
2. Are you a self-starter who can work effectively with minimal direction and guidance?
3. Have you ever been part of a diverse team, with members having varied skills and experience, located across different geographical locations/time zones?

Role:

• Represent the team in meetings, provide advice, updates, training, and
technical support.
• Work with our internal stakeholders to understand automation, requirements
and implement solution using available tool sets and scripting languages.
• Administer, support, and maintain enterprise Monitoring tools in a multi-tier
environment.
• Build Automation solutions using available tool sets and scripting languages.
• Maintain technical support documents for all built solutions and processes.
• Troubleshoots Database technologies, and applications to identify and correct
malfunctions and other operational problems utilizing associated database
management tools.
• On-call administration and tools support.
• As new technologies emerge and influence our environment, learn these
technologies swiftly and apply them for problem solving and providing
innovative solutions.
• Maintains a broad knowledge of state-of-the-art technology, equipment, and/or
systems.
• Self-Driven and flexible, with the willingness to expand your learning into
adjacent areas and the initiative to continually learn more.
• Exhibit thoroughness, adhering to critical processes even under stress.
• Support business disaster recovery procedures for assigned areas of
responsibility.
• Accurately document duties and procedures to aid the department in cross-
training and absentee coverage.
• Work with technical engineering teams to manage and improve processes.
• Ability to solve problems quickly and completely.
• Ability to identify tasks that should be automated and then develop and
implement automation.

All About You

- Minimum 5+ years of experience in Platform Engineering with a focus on
Database technologies (RDBMS and or No-SQL technologies).
- Working knowledge of database structures, theories, principles, and best
practices.
- Demonstrable expertise in monitoring database systems performance and
reliability, anticipate possible issues, and take preventive measures to avoid
downtime.
- Experience with database clustering and replication methods.
- Familiarity with database backup, recovery, security, integrity, and SQL.
- Familiarity with database replication technologies such as OGG and PGD.
- Participate and contribute to capacity planning, performance tuning, and load
testing to ensure database technologies stability.
- Proficiency with one of more database technologies, preferably with
PostgreSQL, Oracle and or Cassandra.
- Good understanding on Linux/Unix file-system technologies.
- Exposure to using Enterprise monitoring tools for the supervision of database
server technologies.
- Experience working with Mission critical platforms and systems with 24/7
availability.
- Expert problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- A passion for learning, sharing knowledge, and working in a team-oriented
environment.

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Company

Mastercard

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a year ago

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WorkMode

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Experience Level

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