Senior Kubernetes Platform Automation SRE 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 Kubernetes Platform Automation SRE Engineer

Who is Mastercard?

Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments sector. We power payments and provide products and services for individuals and industries all around the world. Our people, technology, data, and brand provide the capabilities that drive our success. We believe in connecting people to priceless possibilities.
As a company, we know that our success is driven by the skills, experience, integrity, and mindset of the talent we hire. By building an inclusive, world-class culture, our employees have once-in-a-career opportunities to be a part of teams that have a greater impact on our community and our world. We invite you to join our team to find out how you too can start something priceless.
Overview
The Builder Enablement Program are looking for experienced Kubernetes Platform Engineers to operate a new on-premises Kubernetes capability (using Openshift). Kubernetes will be rolled out globally across Mastercard and will be responsible for supporting tens of thousands of workloads. Skills to monitor, operate, investigate and improve the fully automated platform will be key.
Role
• Working within a global team, the role will be responsible for implementing IT initiatives that supports and continually improves our operational efficiency, driving automation, improving cost effectiveness, and creating operational excellence.
• Will include championing technology innovation and change, working with innovation stakeholders across the business, creating a culture of collaboration.
• Requires previous experience of implementing Kubernetes within an organization, and to be proficient with infrastructure / platform automation, with the ability to evangelize these across the organization.
• Is primarily focused on services, ensuring we meet their SLAs and efficiency targets, providing support for solutions based upon principles of high-availability, agility, scale and efficiency.
• Requires working with:
o Agile frameworks
o Infrastructure As Code
o Infrastructure and Network technologies.
o Orchestration of build and deployment of containerized environments.
o Building and maintaining virtualization automation, monitoring, and reporting tools.
o Troubleshooting, resolving, and assisting in complex environmental issue resolution.
o Participation in automation initiatives driving change and efficiencies.
o Mentoring and sharing knowledge with other members of the team through retros, planning meetings and daily standups.
All About You
• 3+ years experience with building and operating on-premises Kubernetes (ideally OpenShift). CKA, CKAD, or CKS certifications a plus.
• Solid infrastructure experience. Networking, storage, and compute (ideally VMWare).
• Demonstrated ability to organize, manage, plan and control several concurrent initiatives with conflicting needs.
• Track record of successful delivery in a large enterprise environment.
• Familiarity or working knowledge of public cloud patterns (AWS/EKS, Azure/AKS); container tools (Kubernetes, Docker); pipeline tools (Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform); ancillary (Artifactory, Hashicorp Vault); logging and monitoring (Loki, ELK, Prometheus, Kibana, Splunk, Dynatrace); scripting (Python, Bash, Go).

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.