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Mastercard Incorporated Lead BizOps Engineer in O'Fallon, Missouri

"Our PurposeWe 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. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team - one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.Title and SummaryLead BizOps EngineerThe Data and Services BizOps team is looking for a BizOps Engineer II who can help us solve problems, build our CI/CD pipeline and lead Mastercard in DevOps automation and best practices. - Are you a born problem solver who loves to figure out how something works? - Are you a CI/CD geek who loves all things automation?- Do you have a low tolerance for manual work and look to automate everything you can?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.We support daily operations with a hyper focus on triage, root cause by understanding the business impact of our products and subsequently performing blameless post-mortems. The goal of every Business Operations team is to engage early in the development lifecycle to be more proactive and upfront in the development process, and to proactively manage production and change activities to maximize customer experience and increase the overall value of supported applications. Business Operations teams also focus on risk management by tying all our activities together with an overarching responsibility for compliance and risk mitigation across all our environments. Ultimately, the role of Business Operations is to align Product and Customer Focused priorities with Operational needs by providing continuous feedback throughout the lifecycle. Business Operations is leading the DevOps transformation at Mastercard through our tooling and by being an advocate for change and standards throughout the development, quality, release, and product organizations. We need team members with an appetite for change and pushing the boundaries of what can be done with automation. Experience in working across development, operations, and product teams to prioritize needs and to build relationships is a must.MissionThe role of business operations is to be the production readiness steward for the platform. This is accomplished by closely partnering with developers to design, build, implement, and support technology services. A business operations engineer will ensure operational criteria like system availability, capacity, performance, monitoring, self-healing, and deployment automation are implemented throughout the delivery process. Business Operations plays a key role in leading the DevOps transformation at Mastercard through our tooling and by being an advocate for change and standards throughout the development, quality, release, and product organizations. We accomplish this transformation through supporting daily operations with a hyper focus on triage and then root cause by understanding the business impact of our products. The goal of every biz ops team is to shift left to be more proactive and upfront in the development process, and to proactively manage production and change activities to maximize customer experience, and increase the overall value of supported applications. Biz Ops teams also focus on risk management by tying all our activities together with an overarching responsibility for compliance and risk mitigation across all our environments. A biz ops focus is also on streamlining and standardizing traditional application specific support activities and centralizing points of interaction for both internal and external partners by communicating effectively with all key stakeholders. * 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 concernsRole QualificationsThe 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 and/ 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.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 assi

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