Senior Software Engineer (DevOps) Real Time Payments-2

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 Software Engineer (DevOps) Real Time Payments-2

Overview

Mastercard’s Real Time Payments team is looking for an enthusiastic Senior Software Engineer with DevOps focus to work on our RTP Global Product. RTP is part of the payment rails critical infrastructure of a country and operates in 9 countries with a 20 year pedigree of evolution.

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.

Role

We demonstrate 'Mastercard values every day – create value, grow together, move fast, & do the right thing. As a Senior Software Engineer at Mastercard, you are expected to carry out the following general duties:
• Work collaboratively on complex problems which have dependencies across services.
• Design and develop solutions to meet the business requirements/enhancements.
• Help make our engineering teams more effective and efficient optimizing the SDLC.
• Identify opportunities for automation in tasks and software delivery.
• 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.
• Participate in architectural design reviews, troubleshooting, pair programming and supporting related teams.
• Utilise internal IaaS, PaaS, & SaaS tooling and contribute improvements.
• Work in a Scrum team with internal customers and stakeholders distributed globally.


Experiences & Skills – Essential

• Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines and associated tooling such as Jenkins.
• Experience with scripting languages such as Python, Groovy and Bash and an appreciation of Object-oriented programming (OOP).
• Experience in a cloud-based environment (e.g. AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
• Experience of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) automation tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation.
• Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Chef, Puppet.
• Experience & hands on knowledge of Unix/Linux.
• Experience using critical thinking to solve a range of technical challenges. Embody the “managers of one” attribute.
• Experience with Git version control, branching strategies and dependency management (e.g. Maven).

Experiences & Skills – Desirable

• Experience with containerization tools and orchestration (e.g., Docker Compose, Nomad).
• Experience in backend programming.
• Experience with automated test infrastructure.
• Experience with static code analysis & security scanning pipelines and associated tooling.
• Experience designing and implementing centralised monitoring solutions including logging, monitoring, alerting.
• Experience of Java (Spring Boot) and RDBMS (e.g. Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL).
• Experience with building zero downtime solutions, including blue/green deployments.

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.