Senior Platform Engineer

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

Senior Platform Engineer

Who is Mastercard?

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 respect 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.

About the Role

The DevFlow team in the Mastercard Software Builders Experience program is leading the DevOps transformation at Mastercard by developing automation tooling and driving standards throughout the development, quality, release, and product organizations. Our team members have an appetite for change and pushing the boundaries of what can be done with automation.

This team is seeking an experienced professional who can solve complex problems, build our CI/CD pipelines and lead Mastercard in DevOps automation and best practices. We are responsible for automation standards with Mastercard, maintaining industry standard tools such as Chef, Jenkins, and Ansible, and working closely with other departments supporting GitHub, Sonar, Artifactory, Terraform, and more.

• Are you a born problem solver who loves to figure out how something works?
• Are you a CI/CD geek who loves all things automation?
• Do you have a low tolerance for manual work and look to automate everything you can?

Role

Mastercard is seeking a senior engineer with experience administering industry standard CI/CD tools like Jenkins, Maven, Git/BitBucket, and Artifactory. This person will design and implement an effective and efficient CI/CD flow that gets code from dev to prod with high quality and minimal manual effort required.

• Design, implement, and enhance our deployment automation based on Chef (Infra, Habitat)
• Use Jenkins to orchestrate and build CI/CD pipelines to link with Sonar, Chef, Maven, Artifactory, etc.,
• Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services-from inception and design, through deployment, operation, and refinement.
• Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
• Practice sustainable incident responses and blameless postmortems.
• Take a holistic approach to problem solving, by connecting the dots during a production event thru the various technology stack that makes up the platform, to optimize mean time to recover
• Work with a global teams spread across tech hubs in multiple geographies and time zones

All About You

• Proven experience administrating Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or GitHub Action platforms
• Experience supporting applications in one or more of the following languages are preferred: Java, Python, Go, Groovy, Perl or Ruby
• Strong skills designing, implementing, and enhancing deployment automations based on tools such as Chef (Infra, Habitat)
• Experience in administering Cloudbees or opensource Jenkins, preferred
• Experience using Kubernetes to automate deployment and scale the management capabilities of our containerized applications
• Strong communication skills with experience managing difficult situations and making timely decisions
• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or equivalent, preferred

Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal 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. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact View email address on click.appcast.io 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.

In line with Mastercard's total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. The base salary offered may vary depending on multiple factors, including but not limited to location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance); flexible spending account and health savings account; paid leaves (including 16 weeks of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave); 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time, 25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days, pro-rated based on date of hire; 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays; 401k with a best-in-class company match; deferred compensation for eligible roles; fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities; eligibility for tuition reimbursement; and many more. Mastercard benefits for interns generally include: 56 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time; jury duty leave; and on-site fitness facilities in some locations.

Pay Ranges
O'Fallon, Missouri: $96,000 - $163,000 USD