Lead Biz Ops Engineer

Our Purpose

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we're helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.

Title and Summary

Lead Biz Ops Engineer

Who is Mastercard?
At Mastercard technology, 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.

About the Role
The ITSM Service Operations team ensures Mastercard's technology services operate reliably, securely, and at scale. We own the enterprise lifecycle for Change, Service Events, Incident, and Problem Management-balancing rapid innovation with operational stability. As our platforms and transaction volumes continue to grow, we are focused on evolving Service Operations through stronger governance, better automation, and a relentless focus on learning and prevention to support the next phase of Mastercard's growth.

The Service Operations Tooling team is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Lead Business Operations Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our growing team. You will play a critical role in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of our applications, supporting essential services that power Mastercard's global operations. As a thought leader in your field, you will bring technical expertise, a passion for automation, and the ability to mentor.
We support daily operations with a hyper focus on triage, root cause by understanding the business impact of our products and subsequently performing blameless post-mortems. The goal of every Business Operations team is to engage early in the development lifecycle to be more proactive and upfront in the development process, and to proactively manage production and change activities to maximize customer experience and increase the overall value of supported applications. Business Operations teams also focus on risk management by tying all our activities together with an overarching responsibility for compliance and risk mitigation across all our environments.
Ultimately, the role of Business Operations is to align Product and Customer Focused priorities with Operational needs by providing continuous feedback throughout the lifecycle.
Team Specific Skills:
It is not expected that any single candidate would have expertise across all these areas, but a Biz Ops engineer will spend a bit of time throughout their career with all of these aspects of the role:
Operational Readiness Architect:
oServe as the primary contact responsible for the overall application health, performance, and capacity
oSupport services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, capacity planning and launch reviews.
oPartner with the development and product team of a new application to establish the right monitoring and alerting strategy and create the framework to achieve zero downtime during deployment.
Site Reliability Engineering:
oPerforms operability and resilience design and implements and maintains highly reliable and scalable infrastructure.
oPerform root cause analysis of incidents and collaborate with development teams to resolve issues.
oStay up to date with the latest technologies and trends in SRE and cloud computing.
oParticipate in on-call rotations and be available to respond to critical incidents.
oComplete end-to-end ownership of the product.
oPractice sustainable incident response and blameless post-mortems while taking a holistic approach to problem solving and optimizing time to recover.
oAutomate data-driven alerts to proactively escalate issues. Work with development teams to establish SLOs and improve reliability.
DevOps/Automation:
oTackle complex development, automation, and business process problems. Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services-from inception and design, through deployment, operation, and refinement.
oSupport the application CI/CD pipeline for promoting software into higher environments through validation and operational gating, and lead Mastercard in DevOps automation and best practices.
oPerforms operational and resilience Design and implements solutions for capacity planning and performance optimization.
oIncrease automation and tooling to reduce toil and manual intervention
ITSM Practices:
oAnalyses ITSM activities of the platform and provide feedback loop to development teams on operational gaps or resiliency concerns

Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal 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. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact 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 and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. The base salary offered may vary depending on multiple factors, including but not limited to location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. 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 of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave); 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time, 25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days, pro-rated based on date of hire; 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; and many more. Mastercard benefits for interns generally include: 56 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time; jury duty leave; and on-site fitness facilities in some locations.

Pay Ranges
O'Fallon, Missouri: $122,000 - $207,000 USD