Senior Platform 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

Senior Platform Engineer

Roles and Responsibilities :

Implement security measures for computer or information systems.

Develop computer or information security policies or procedures.

Update computer database information.

Create databases to store electronic data.

Set database parameters or specifications.

Develop and maintain PL/SQL programming code.

Develop guidelines for system implementation.

Develop performance metrics or standards related to information technology.

Coordinate project activities with other personnel or departments.

Read documents to gather technical information.

Estimate time or monetary resources needed to complete projects.

Train others in computer interface or software use.

Coordinate software or hardware installation.

Develop detailed project plans.

Develop models of information or communications systems.

Reviewing development and deployment processes related to databases and identifying areas of improvement (such as online schema changes).

Provide comprehensive database troubleshooting.

Take ownership of performance and capacity monitoring aspects of the DB.

Assist the infrastructure team in sizing hardware used for the DB.

Required Skills :

• Ideally Oracle Certified DB Professional (OCP) with more than 5 years' experience with Oracle, preferably in a lead role. Experience should include

DB design (modelling and normalization), capacity planning, performance tuning, storage management, back-up and recovery, managing schemas,

report generation and DB clustering technologies.• Operating system experience in Linux.• Experience in writing and managing PL/SQL programming skills.• Experience in shell scripting.• Oracle management tools (Data Guard, RMAN, Data pump).• Partitioning.• Architecture design principles.• Good problem solver, focused and dedicated developer with ability to work on your own as well as with a team.• Hands on experience with DB standards and end user applications-translating capacity requirements into infrastructure deployment technology.• Strong practical experience of ORACLE in a production RAC (ASM) environment (11gR2).• Must be a self-starter with a strong attention to detail.• Experience with an organization with a key reliance on 24x7 reliability on its database.• All applicants must have the right to work in the UK without restrictions.

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.