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
Lead Software EngineerLead Cloud Software Engineer
Who is Mastercard?
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is 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. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.
Overview
The Global Open Banking team is looking for a Lead Cloud Software Engineer to drive our customer experience strategy forward by consistently innovating and problem-solving. The ideal candidate is passionate about the customer experience journey, highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical and agile mindset.
Role
In this role, you will:
• Participate in the implementation of new systems, develop strategic thinking and develop process, tools, and frameworks to help ensure effectiveness across teams
• Be responsible for the analysis, design, development and delivery of software solutions
• Define requirements for new applications and customizations, adhering to standards, processes and best practices
• Plan and execute maintenance, upgrades, and migrations activities in different environments as Dev, Stage, and Prod
• Design and develop resilient scalable infrastructure that avoids downtime and service interruptions
• Interface with external logging, monitoring, and security vendors
• Build out infrastructure as code, standard system images, and application images in Docker
• Oversees and provides technical support to junior team members
• Provide oncall coverage on rotation basis
All About You
Skills and experience required to be successful in this role:
• Managing medium-sized project/initiatives as an individual contributor with advanced knowledge within discipline, leading a segment of several initiatives or a larger initiative, or formally supervise a small team, and assigns day-to-day work
• Design and develop applications, system to system interfaces and complete software solutions, performs vendor-related activities, and creates documentation such as user guides and software development guides
• Oversee and provide technical support to junior team members
• Significant advanced code development, code review and modest day-to-day support duties
• Expertise in AWS Cloud, developing solution offerings for new and existing Cloud projects. Demonstrate a advanced level of knowledge and understanding of various AWS service offerings
• Kubernetes experience, managing large scale Kubernetes clusters. Experience with kops or Rancher or any equivalent provided cluster, alternate CNIs and managing scalability of the cluster
• Infrastructure as Code Experience, demonstrate advanced level of programming methodologies used to augment terraform using Python, bash, or Go and related programming tools such as VSCode and git
• Expertise in Kubernetes cluster backup and restoration techniques and tools
• Be creative with solutioning yet be simple with implementation
Technology, Tools Required:
Kubernetes – Certified Kubernetes Administrator level expertise
AWS – Solution Architect Professional or Associate level expertise
Kops/Rancher/EKS – Cluster provisioning tool expert level experience
Terraform – IaC expert level experience
CI/CD – Gitlab or equivalent continuous delivery tool expertise
Linux – Linux expertise and Certifications
Cluster back and restore tech stack
Autoscaling Kubernetes nodes – scaling solutions
RBAC configuration for cluster access
Service mesh – experience managing a large scale prod environment
Corporate Security Responsibility
Every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security. All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and therefore, it is expected that the successful candidate for this position 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.
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.
