Title and Summary
Lead Platform Engineer - Unix/Linux
Overview
As a Virtualisation & Compute systems platform engineer you would be focused on build, implementation and support of Mastercard ONE (RTP & Applications) Virtualisation & Compute platforms (UNIX, Linux, Redhat, VMware).
Responsibilities
* Coordinates the building and maintaining of system and platform technologies and environments, including associated software products
* Performs lifecycle management for supported hardware platforms, including technical refresh planning and capacity upgrades
* Participates in the planning and implementation of system/platform updates to optimize performance, efficiency, and capacity
* Performs holistic platform security posture which includes identifying risks, escalating potential concerns, and implementing both risk mitigation plans and control functions
* Completes status reports, troubleshooting guides, and project plans to provide in-depth technical assistance to development programmers and customers
* Resolves chronic complex problems, providing managerial operational support to maintain systems and platforms
* Assist 3rd line support in the analysis of root causes of all major issues, planning redesigns where appropriate.
* Work in partnership with 3rd party suppliers, understanding and implementing industry best practice across our technology stack
Experience
* Experience leading a major work stream or multiple smaller work streams for a large platform system domain initiative, often providing technical guidance and advice to ensure consistent deployment of solutions
* Implement UNIX/Linux/Platform installs and upgrades
* Implement UNIX/Linux/Platform 3rd Party Software installs and upgrades.
* Document and manage change to existing hardware/software platforms.
* Experience setting priorities, objectives, and driving deliverables within global technology domains and sub-domains
* Experience engaging with the broader technical community to anticipate developments in innovation, often evaluating new solutions and recommending future business platform system requirements
* Experience performing process improvements and automation activities for operational and financial value, applying tools and technologies
* Successfully served as a go-to-person to resolve and prevent platform system infrastructure issues, deriving impactful solutions
Technical and Professional Skills
* RedHat – Advanced
* Terraform & Ansible – Advanced
* DevOps Tooling (Jenkins, Argo, Ansible, Git, Azure DevOps, Terraform) – Advanced
* Infrastructure As Code experience – Advanced
* Infrastructure & Network awareness – Advanced
* At least one shell scripting language (Bash, Bourne, Go-lang, Python, C‑Shell)
* Patching & Live upgrades – Advanced
* Volume Managers, ZFS, VXFM – Advanced
* Clustering experience – Intermediate
* Virtual Machine Management – Advanced
* VMWare – Advanced
* Exposure to public Cloud Services (Azure & AWS) – Advanced
* Exposure to private Cloud services (Azure Stack) – Intermediate
* Portworx – Advanced
* Converged experience (exadata, supercluster or vblock) – Intermediate
* OpenShift (Kubernetes) – Advanced
* X86 hardware – Advanced
* Networking skills TCP/IP, DNS, SSH, LDAP – Advanced
* Automation and exposure to scripting (Python, Bash) – Advanced
* Jumpstart – Intermediate
* Satellite – Intermediate
* Splunk – Basic
* Qualys – Basic
* Broad experience across Service Management disciplines.
* Storage technologies – Basic
* Backup technologies – Basic
* Atlassian experience – Jira, Confluence – Intermediate
* Agile methodology awareness (Scrum/Kanban) – Intermediate
* HSM experience – Intermediate
Corporate Security Responsibility
* 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.
Seniority Level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Engineering and Information Technology
Industries
Financial Services, IT Services and IT Consulting, and Technology, Information and Internet
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