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

• The Converged Systems Services team is responsible for converged and hyper-converged systems, and this team is a member of the organization responsible for supporting MasterCard cloud computing technologies and virtualization. This is a brand new team and strategic direction for MasterCard with a great opportunity to influence technology strategy to meet MasterCard 3.0 objectives.
• The primary technologies currently in-place include Cisco UCS, VCE vBlock, and Nutanix, but we are currently evaluating our strategy to expand this architecture footprint and vendors. The virtualization and cloud technologies leveraging this infrastructure include VMware, vCloud, Citrix XenDesktop, XenApp, and Linux. We are preparing for Software Defined Networking and Data Centers.
• The selected individual will make engineering and operational decisions for MasterCard’s converged systems platform including collaborating closely with cross-functional teams and participate in white board design sessions.
• This individual will be one of our engineers in all technical aspects of converged hardware and “reference architecture” for this platform.
• He\She will research emerging technologies and their benefits/pit falls in a next generation data center, especially to include software defined datacenters.
• Do you have converged systems experience at a company with multiple networks of disparate trust levels?
• Do you have the ability to influence your peers to make your vision their technical strategy?
• Do you have the ability to learn new technologies quickly? What is your favorite way to learn?
Role
• Provide administration support of the converged platform technologies employed at MasterCard.
• Perform “proof of concepts” of new technologies and determine roadmaps that align with the team strategy and vision.
• Design and implement converged solutions driven by the needs of the business and cloud computing strategies.
• Document architecture, implementation instructions, and collaborate well with peers via internal wiki’s and intranet sites.
• Provide on call support, as needed.
All About You
• The ideal candidate will have experience working in a global company with a strong background in storage solutions and technologies.
• Essential skills and experience include a combination of the following: Cisco UCS, VCE, Nutanix, Powershell, and NX-OS, EMC Storage, VMware vCloud, Citrix XenApp, Citrix XenDesktop, vCloud Orchestrator, Linux.
• A strong knowledge and experience with physical datacenters (i.e. power, racks, cabling), networking, and\or security in multi-tenant and converged environments is preferred and will set you apart from your peers.
• The expertise level for this position is intermediate with development opportunities available to expand skillset into the other technologies on the team this candidate may not have experience with.

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.