Senior Platform Engineer (Linux / Vmware)

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We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer with expertise in Linux and Vmware. Your primary responsibility will be to ensure high availability of Mastercard services by implementing quality engineering practices and resolving first level escalation issues. You will also work on automation, monitoring, and troubleshooting of virtualization, UNIX/Linux/Storage systems, and applications. The ideal candidate is self-driven, has strong problem-solving skills, and is experienced in working with mission-critical platforms and systems. Join our team and contribute to the inclusive and innovative culture of Mastercard.

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 (Linux / Vmware)

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 Virtualization, Unix/Linux/Storage systems, and applications to
identify and correct malfunctions and other operational problems utilizing
associated Linux and UNIX command line and 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 working with Virtualization, Linux/Unix and
Storage technologies.
- Strong experience with VMware capacity planning and Linux administration.
- Experience with distributed storage technologies (SAN, NAS, iSCSI, FC, NFSv4,
Brocade, NVMe, Software defined Storage technologies)
- Ability to troubleshoot involving VMware, Software defined storage, SAN, NAS,
Linux/Unix and Web technologies.
- Experience with compute technologies (Blade and Rack mount server)
- Proven ability to write scripts in an administrative language (bash, shell, Python etc).
- Strong understand of network protocols, and experience with network
troubleshooting.
- Exposure to using Enterprise monitoring tools for the supervision of Compute,
Storage, OS and Application stack technologies.
- Experience working with mission critical platforms and systems with 24/7
availability.
- Familiarity with system and network security principles and best practices.
- Basic understanding of Infrastructure as a Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform,
Chef, Salt, Puppet, Ansible, VMware vRealize Automation, etc...
- Knowledge of CI/CD Pipelines and practices.
- 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.

In the US, Mastercard is an inclusive Equal Employment Opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process, please contact reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.com and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.

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.

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