Lead, Bizops Engineer
O'Fallon, MO
| Employer: | Mastercard |
| Category: | Information Technology |
| Job Type: | Full Time |
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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, Bizops Engineer Who is Mastercard? At Mastercard technology, 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 About the Role The Business Operations (Biz Ops) team is seeking a Business Operations Site Reliability Engineer (SRE). The role of Business Operations Organization is to be the production readiness steward for Mastercard products. As a Business Operations SRE, we are responsible for ensuring that our platform is stable and healthy. We break down barriers to run our products by fostering developer run ownership and empowering developers to build resilient products. We support our developers during the application build phase in software run principals that includes operational design, automation, capacity planning, monitoring that leads to fault-tolerant, scalable products. We see the big picture and help create and enforce operations standards while facilitating an agile and learning culture. All About the Program You Support (Data Platform & Engineering Services): Our Mission: The MasterCard Enterprise Data Warehouse provides robust, high performance, and secure repositories of data assets. Everyday, everywhere these unassailable data assets empower stakeholders to make intelligent, data driven decisions, allowing them to grow, diversify, and build business. Our Vision: We will become the premier data warehouse in the world by enabling cutting edge technology, analytics, business intelligence, visualization, and data science, driving value at MasterCard. Specific Skills: It is not expected that any single candidate would have expertise across all these areas, but a Biz Ops engineer will spend a bit of time throughout their career with all of these aspects of the role: • Operational Readiness Architect: o Serve as the primary contact responsible for the overall application health, performance, and capacity o Support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, capacity planning and launch reviews. o Partner with the development and product team of a new application to establish the right monitoring and alerting strategy and create the framework to achieve zero downtime during deployment. • Site Reliability Engineering: o Serve as the primary contact responsible for ensuring application scalability, performance, and resilience. o Practice sustainable incident response and blameless post-mortems while taking a holistic approach to problem solving and optimizing time to recover. o Automate data-driven alerts to proactively escalate issues. Work with development teams to establish SLOs and improve reliability. • DevOps/Automation: o Tackle complex development, automation, and business process problems. Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services-from inception and design, through deployment, operation, and refinement. o Support the application CI/CD pipeline for promoting software into higher environments through validation and operational gating, and lead Mastercard in DevOps automation and best practices. o Increase automation and tooling to reduce toil and manual intervention • ITSM Practices: o Analyses ITSM activities of the platform and provide feedback loop to development teams on operational gaps or resiliency concerns Role Qualifications The ideal candidate will have experience in many of these areas: • BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding (e.g., physics or mathematics), or equivalent practical experience. • Coding or scripting exposure. • Appetite for change and pushing the boundaries of what can be done with automation. Be curious about new technology, infrastructure, and practices to scale our architecture and prepare for future growth. • Experience with algorithms, data structures, scripting, pipeline management, and software design • Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with strong communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive. • Interest in designing, analysing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems. • Willingness and ability to learn and take on challenging opportunities and to work as a member of matrix based diverse and geographically distributed project team. • Ability to balance doing things right with fixing things quickly. Flexible and pragmatic, while working towards improving the long-term health of the system. • Comfortable collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure that expected system behaviour is understood and monitoring exists to detect anomalies. Equal opportunities considerations 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. Preferred Qualifications: (For L7 and above): • Coding experience in one or more of the following: C++, Java, Python, Go • Experience with algorithms, data structures, scripting, pipeline management, and software design. • Experience in working across development, operations, and product teams to prioritize needs and to build relationships is a must. • Experience in a SRE role or related field. • Background on cloud native tooling and orchestration technologies (Kubernetes preferred). • Experience in Monitoring tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace. • Experience with Java, J2EE, WebServices (SOAP/REST), Spring/Spring Boot is a plus. • Experience in production support environments and ITIL processes. • Experience with industry standard CI/CD tools like Git/BitBucket, Jenkins, Maven, Artifactory, Groovy and Chef. 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. • Developing and maintaining cloud solutions on Azure, GCP, or AWS in accordance with best practices. • Understanding of: o Client-server relationships o Network concepts (Layer 1 to Layer 3) o Stack trace analysis (TCP dumps, heap dumps, CPU/memory analysis, thread dumps). o Load balancers and application firewalls. o Operating System navigation. o Logging and monitoring methods, standards, and tools. o High availability and business continuity planning o Caching concepts o Configuration management Mastercard is an 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. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment 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:
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