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Title and Summary

Principle Kubernetes Platform Engineer

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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 Builders Enablement Program is looking for experienced Principle Engineers to build out and expand our on-premises OpenShift based Kubernetes functions globally; automating the server and virtualization infrastructure components supporting the customer's containerized workloads through architecture, development, testing, support, and production runtime.

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 in the areas of product selection, hands-on tooling, 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 the holder to be a development focused engineer to help automate the server and virtualization infrastructure, by maintaining and creating new automation tools to continue to drive transformation of our environments and services. It will include liaison and building close relationships with other technical areas such as development, testing, application support and architecture teams.

• Requires working with:

• Agile frameworks

• Infrastructure As Code

• Infrastructure and Network technologies.

• Orchestration of build and deployment of containerized environments.

• Building and maintaining virtualization automation, monitoring, and reporting tools.

• Troubleshooting, resolving, and assisting in complex environmental issues through code.

• Participation in automation initiatives driving change and efficiencies.

• Mentoring and sharing knowledge with other members of the team through retros, planning meetings and daily standups.

• Vendors / 3rd party relationships

All About You

• 4+ years' experience with building and running on-premises Kubernetes, ideally OpenShift. CKA, CKAD, or CKS certifications a plus.

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Information Technology, Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent experience.

• 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, Azure); container tools (Kubernetes, Docker); pipeline tools (Jenkins, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Terraform); ancillary (Nexus IQ, SonarQube, Hashicorp Vault); logging and monitoring (Loki, ELK, Prometheus, Kibana); 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.