Lead 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

Lead Platform Engineer

Overview
The Automation Frameworks team in 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. 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.

Role
We demonstrate 'Mastercard values every day - own it, simplify it, sense of urgency, thoughtful risk-taking, unlock potential, and be inclusive – with a relentless focus on our customers. As a Lead Software Engineer at Mastercard, you are expected to carry out the following general duties:

-- Own tasks (dev, test, deployment) at an application/software component level
-- Able to troubleshoot and refactor existing code
-- Adopt new languages and architecture patterns needed for the work
-- Influence the decisions made by the team
-- Assist peers and less experienced members
-- Demonstrates active learning

All About You
The DevFlow Tribe is looking for a DevOps Engineer who can help us solve problems, build our CI/CD pipelines and lead Mastercard in DevOps automation and best practices.
-- 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?

Mastercard is seeking an engineer with experience in industry standard CI/CD tools like Jenkins, Maven, Git/BitBucket, and Artifactory. Experience designing and implementing an effective and efficient CI/CD flow that gets code from dev to prod with high quality and minimal manual effort is required. Experience in administering Cloudbees or opensource Jenkins is preferred.

• Bachelor or master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• Experience administrating Jenkins platforms and/or strong knowledge of writing Jenkins pipelines.
• Experience in one or more of the following is preferred: Java, Python, Go, Groovy, Perl or Ruby.
• Design, implement, and enhance our deployment automation based on Chef (Infra, Habitat).
• Use Jenkins to orchestrate builds as well as link to Sonar, Chef, Maven, Artifactory, etc. to build out the CI/CD pipeline.
• 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 response 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 team spread across tech hubs in multiple geographies and time zones
• We support many different stakeholders. Experience in dealing with difficult situations and making decisions with a sense of urgency is needed.

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.