Principal Cloud Engineer

Our Purpose

We 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 Summary

Principal Cloud Engineer

Overview

• The Cloud Platforms team is responsible for the day to day maintenance and operation of various cloud platforms and their supporting services.• Cloud Platform Engineers are engaged in the project lifecycle as infrastructure is designed and ultimately inherit responsibility of the new environment.• The primary responsibility of the team is to react to incidents in cloud, PaaS, Cloud Foundry and pipeline infrastructure platforms.• Secondary objectives of the team are to improve the resiliency of systems through active contribution back to design as well as automating repetitive tasks.• Requires a deep understanding of various platforms used for delivery of traditional cloud services.• Requires the ability to write automation code to remediate repeat issues.• Requires a working understanding of continuous delivery principals, software development methodologies and infrastructure automation.• This is a "hands on" role that deals with reacting to and proactively avoiding issues with infrastructure platforms used for delivery of cloud services.• Do you enjoy creating code-based solutions to replace manual processes?• Are you the type of person that will drive the solution and team in the best direction instead of the easiest?

Role

• Interact with and create effective monitoring systems that reduce the need for human intervention in daily web operations• Design solutions for internal cloud platforms• Provide capacity planning solutions for hardware, licensing, and network components• Provide automated solutions to repetitive incidents on various platforms• Create high quality and rugged code solutions to automate detection and recovery of common operational problems• Identify and create automation that can be used by initial responders for easily resolvable issues• This position requires the candidate to work flexible schedules to partner with our architecture and engineering teams around the world.

All About You

• Expert understanding of operational of cloud platform duties• Working knowledge of target platforms (Linux, vSphere, Cloud Foundry, VMWare TAS, Concourse pipelines, Spring Boot Applications)• Familiarity with XML Gateways, API technology and F5 load balancers preferred• Highly attuned to security needs and best practices• Ability to write quality automation code in more than one language (Bash, Python)• Familiarity with multiple cloud vendors and past experience a plus

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 [email protected] and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.

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 based on location, experience and other qualifications for the role and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance), flexible spending account and health savings account, paid leaves (including 16 weeks new parent leave, up to 20 paid days bereavement leave), 10 annual paid sick days, 10 or more annual paid vacation days based on level, 5 personal days, 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays, 401k with a best-in-class company match, deferred compensation for eligible roles, fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities, eligibility for tuition reimbursement, gender-inclusive benefits and many more.