Lead, Platform Engineering

Lead, Platform Engineering

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.

Configure, patch, upgrade, and optimize database software and related products. Role.

• Perform security, backup/recovery, architecture, networking, and administration for assigned database discipline.
• Work with technology teams for the development, maintenance, testing, implementation, and support of assigned database technologies and associated software products.
• Proactively monitor with advanced troubleshooting skills for database issues escalated by the business team and internal monitoring in a timely manner with strong skills to drive to root cause and remediation of issues.
• Develop a strong partnership with technology teams and customers to understand business needs and with advanced skills to communicate solutions in business terms.
• Understand database security topics including database users, roles, and privileges.
• Understand cloud concepts including database administration activities in cloud solutions.
• Strong to advanced performance and tuning skills with the ability to identify, respond and resolve database performance issues; communicates database performance resolution to technical teams and business partners.
• Successfully follow change management, problem management and incident management processes and procedures.
• May manage large to enterprise project/initiatives with specialized knowledge within assigned discipline and the ability to architect solutions.
• Proactively plan and coordinate larger technical and architectural efforts within the database team and with external technology teams.
• Influence Mastercard best practices in planning, coordinating, implementing, and maintaining database solutions.
• Train and mentor members of the team by contributing to supporting documentation.
• Ability to be on call after hours and weekends.

About You

Master's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science or Engineering, Information Technology, or related and seven (7) years of progressively responsible experience in job offered or as a Database Engineer, Java Developer, or related. Alternatively, employer will accept a Bachelor's degree and ten (10) years of progressively responsible experience.

Qualifying experience must include at least three (3) years with each of the following:
Database management systems (DBMS):
Redis;
Cloud technologies: AWS/Microsoft Azure or similar;
On-Prem to cloud data migration strategy;
Cloud migration tools;
Windows and Linux;
Automation tools:
Chef, Ansible;
Scripting knowledge:
Python, Shell;
Database design, normalization, and optimization techniques;
Monitoring and reporting tools:
Dynatrace, Splunk;
Experience with Database security best practices:
Implementation of SSL/TLS, TDE (Transparent data encryption), Access management principles along with authentication mechanisms such as LDAP/AD;
Experience with managing database recovery and availability principles by defining and implementing database backup and recovery principles to guarantee point in time recovery for different database technologies;
Experience with defining and implementing database resiliency strategy to test and account for different failure scenarios such as network, disaster, power, etc.

Employer will accept any suitable combination of education, training or experience. Option to work from home-based office exists. May reside anywhere within the United States.

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.

In line with Mastercard's total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. The base salary offered may vary depending on multiple factors, including but not limited to location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life…