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

Role

• Responsible for installation, configuration, creation and administration of Postgres and Oracle Databases.
• Relevant more than 5 years of experience handling Postgres and Oracle databases
• Implement proactive monitoring of all databases to predict and diagnose the majority of problems before they impact application performance or user experience
• Configure and manage postgres Installation,replication,upgrades, applying minor patching activities
• good problem solving and troubleshooting skills
• Good working oracle knoweldege with oracle RAC, datagaurd & Goldengate.
• Undertake periodic upgrades of database schema and perform testing and verification of released database schema upgrades
• Support the installation and configuration of Databases for high availability;
• Work on maintaining database security (roles, privileges, authentication);
• Create and maintain documentation, procedures and best practice guides for database deployment and maintenance
• Work with development and other support teams to participate in release and change management processes to implement new features/functions as well apply mandatory patches or upgrades.

All About You
• Solid experience in anyone of Postgres and oracle . tuning with extensive experience as a Database Administrator in medium or larger organisations.
• Highly proficient in SQL with a solid understanding of database concepts (e.g. entity-relationship modelling, nth normal form, Object-relational mapping)
• Thorough understanding and significant experience of database backup and recovery, performance monitoring and tuning, data manipulation and migration and advanced replication technologies.
• Experience with Clustering configuration, setup and maintenance.
• Strong technical knowledge of database architecture, data storage and management principles, with experience using related technologies
• Experience with High Availability architectures
• Exposure to or good experience within the financial services/payments industry environment (e.g Banking, Credit Card Scheme)
• Experience with web technologies and Unix shell scripting
• Bachelor’s Degree or the equivalent qualification/industry experience within IT/eCommerce
• Any Enterprise Database certification is a desirable qualification
• Hands on approach to problem solving
• Strong communication skills both written and verbal coupled with strong problem-solving skills
• Exposure and practice with any or all of the following is a plus: Remedy, Jenkins, ITIL, CMM,Six Sigma, Agile, Scrum, and Kanban
• Positive attitude with the ability to adapt and be flexible within a fast-paced environment

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.