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Lead Platform Engineer

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.

Overview

The Business & Market Insights Platform Infrastructure Engineering team is a key differentiator for Mastercard, providing the cutting-edge services that help our customers grow. Focused on thinking big and scaling fast around the globe, this agile team is responsible for end-to-end solutions for a diverse global customer base. Centered on data-driven technologies and innovation, these services include payments-focused consulting, loyalty and marketing programs, business Test & Learn experimentation, and data-driven information and risk management services. Mastercard's Business & Market Insights Platform Infrastructure Engineering team is responsible for the deployment, configuration, maintenance, backup and support of multiple on-premise and cloud hosted data centers.

Job Title

Lead Platform Engineer

Role

Lead the procuring, installing, managing, and monitoring of physical and virtual infrastructure in both local and remote geographies. Lead the deployment, configuration, maintenance, backup and support of private/hybrid cloud hosted data centers. Lead & support multi-geography, multi-cloud deployments across the Azure, VMware, and AWS. Work together with integrated, cross-functional Dev-ops and Development teams. Vendor management and collaborating with multiple teams across geography. Automating commonly performed tasks, using scripting tools such as Powershell, Ansible, and Python. Supporting virtualization platforms such as Hyper-V, VMware, and KVM. Work with internal stakeholders to provision, provide access, and troubleshoot various testing and production resources. Manage backup and recovery operations for products deployed in the cloud environment. Participate in on call rotations, responding to after-hours incidents in a timely manner. Mentor junior engineers and teammates.

About You

Lead a cross-geography team, coordinating efforts across time zones. Experience with Microsoft Enterprise Products (Windows Server, SQL Server, Active Directory etc.). Strong experience in the deployment/configuration/maintenance of the private/hybrid cloud. Significant experience with cloud technology such as Azure, Azure stack hub or AWS, KVM Hypervisor or HCI solutions. Strong desire and prior experience automating common tasks. Experience deploying and supporting virtual machines an enterprise level/on cloud platform. Ability to solve complex problems independently and in a team setting. Competency using industry standard automation/scripting languages (e.g. Powershell, SQL, Python). Experience with Terraform or Ansible. Background on cloud native tooling and orchestration technologies (Kubernetes). Ability to balance competing tasks and prioritize. Proven ability to communicate with team members effectively. Strong analytical, and problem-solving skills. Understanding of working in an agile team environment. Proven ability to build trust and partnership with stakeholders. Strong sense of urgency and drive.

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.

Pay Ranges

Arlington, Virginia: $129,000 - $215,000 USD