Principle Software Engineer - DevOps

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

Principle Software Engineer - DevOps

Who is Mastercard?
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is 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. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.
Overview

Real-Time Payments (RTP) offer immediate transfer and detailed messaging options for A2A (Account to Account) payments and are critical on Mastercard’s journey for Multi-Rail Payments. Real Time Payments are categorized as Critical National Infrastructure for respective countries’ and requires high benchmark of resilience, availability, quality, and scalability.

We see DevOps as a collection of philosophies, practices and tooling that enable the quick delivery of high-quality software. An ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and a desire to continuously improve their own skills and the people around them. Together, you will be part of a high performing team who work together to deliver complex projects through agile methodologies.

The Real Time Payments team is looking for a Principal DevOps Engineer with proven experience in DevOps. Are you:
• A self starter who is able to take full ownership of project plans without much need for Knowledge Transition/Training by self reading available documents.
• Able Conceptualize, rationalize, and drive multiple simultaneous projects to deliver engineering work across the portfolio.
Role
All staff at Mastercard are expected to demonstrate 'Mastercard Way' every day – create value for our customers, partners and colleagues; grow together to achieve our goals and move fasten what matters most for our customers and Mastercard

• We demonstrate 'Mastercard values every day – create value, grow together, move fast, & do the right thing. As a Lead Software Engineer at Mastercard, you are expected to carry out the following general duties:
• Work on complex enterprise-wide initiatives spanning multiple services/programs and drives resolution
• Work with technical owners to architect and deliver on new projects
• Drive the architectural design, including dependent services, service interactions, and policies
• Contribute and lead Guild initiatives by engaging and mentoring Engineers at all levels to improve the craftmanship of Software Engineering
• Simplify and improve the cost/benefit of a function/service/architecture strategy
• Own complex problems which have dependencies across services and facilitate cross-functional team interactions to drive resolution.
• Define, design, and develop procedures and solutions at a service level to meet the business requirements/enhancements.
• Drive innovation to make our engineering teams more effective and efficient optimizing the SDLC.
• Identify opportunities for automation in tasks and software delivery.
• Provide development and architecture guidance to team members. Introduce new technologies and architecture by following enterprise guidelines.
• Help drive our engineering culture through mentoring, assisting peers and a relentless focus on developer experience. Participate in the Software Engineering Guild and special interest groups.
• Lead and participate in architectural design reviews, troubleshooting, pair programming and supporting related teams.
• Utilize internal IaaS, PaaS, & SaaS tooling and contribute improvements.
• Work in a Scrum team with internal customers and stakeholders distributed globally.


Experience and Skillsets
• Strong experience across the full SDLC.
• Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines and associated tooling such as Jenkins.
• Strong experience with scripting languages such as Python, Groovy and Bash and an appreciation of Object-oriented programming (OOP).
• Strong experience in a cloud-based environment (e.g. AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
• Strong knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) automation tools such as Terraform, Cloud Formation.
• Strong knowledge of configuration management tools such as Ansible, Chef, Puppet.
• Strong experience & hands on knowledge of Unix/Linux.
• Strong experience with Git version control, branching strategies, dependency management (e.g. Maven).
• Strong experience using critical thinking to solve a range of technical challenges.
• Knowledge of at least one RDBMS (e.g. Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL) and messaging middleware.

Experiences & Skills - Essential

• Experience with automated test infrastructure.
• Experience with static code analysis & security scanning pipelines and associated tooling.
• Experience designing and implementing centralized monitoring solutions including logging, monitoring, alerting.
• Experience of Java (Spring Boot).
• Experience with building zero downtime solutions, including blue/green deployments.

Work Schedules
• We currently operate a hybrid working pattern which allows colleagues to gain a work life balance with the requirement to work from the office and home for part of the week
• Open to working flexible hours that overlap with European time zones


Corporate Security Responsibility
Every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security. All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and therefore, it is expected that the successful candidate for this position 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.

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.