BizOps Engineer II

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

BizOps Engineer II

Overview:
The Mastercard BizOps team is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer who can help us solve problems, build our CI/CD pipeline and lead Mastercard in DevOps automation and best practices.
-Are you a born problem solver who loves to figure out how something works?
-Are you a CI/CD geek who loves all things automation?
-Do you have a low tolerance for manual work and look to automate everything you can?

Business Operations is leading the DevOps transformation at Mastercard through our tooling and by being an advocate for change & standards throughout the development, quality, release, and product organizations. We need team members with an appetite for change and pushing the boundaries of what can be done with automation. Experience in working across development, operations, and product teams to prioritize needs and to build relationships is a must.
The Strategic Growth BizOps team is dedicated to producing and supporting technology solutions that enable 'base on the pyramid' consumers for financial inclusion. The BizOps team provides 24x7 support to for the Humanitarian & Cause Enablement applications from Technology Run perspective.
This position will cover the Alerting & Monitoring, Capacity Management, CI-CD, Agile, Production Support using SRE principles, ITIL practices like Incident Management, Change Management, Problem Management, and Eliminating toil through Automation best practices to deliver on a great customer experience & delight. Encompassing a suite of more than 50 platforms and applications varying from the latest and greatest technologies to legacy technologies, there is enough variety here to keep any technologist sharp. MasterCard's support teams are globally based and this position will be responsible for tying them together into a cohesive, agile and responsive unit that sets a world class standard for operational performance.
Role:
Contributes significantly to the engineering strategy for all platforms across multiple application suite and to the production support response strategy by identifying and developing platform improvement and process improvement opportunities.
Troubleshoots applications and implements fixes to decrease time to resolution and minimize dependency on advanced vendor support.
Minimizes application development costs by providing guidance and leadership to application development teams and ensuring sound execution throughout the system development life cycle.
Mentors staff and provides assistance to team members as needed.
Maintains skills consistent with the technology roadmap and implements tasks leveraging new technologies as needed.
Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services-from inception and design, through deployment, operation and refinement.
Analyze ITSM activities of the platform and provide feedback loop to development teams on operational gaps or resiliency concerns
Support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, capacity planning and launch reviews.
Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency and overall system health.
Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
Support 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.
Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.
Take a holistic approach to problem solving, by connecting the dots during a production event thru the various technology stack that makes up the platform, to optimize mean time to recover
Work with a global team spread across tech hubs in multiple geographies and time zones
Share knowledge and mentor junior resources

Qualifications :
BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding (e.g., physics or mathematics), or equivalent practical experience.
Experience with algorithms, data structures, scripting, pipeline management, and software design.
Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with strong communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive.
Ability to help debug and optimize code and automate routine tasks.
We support many different stakeholders. Experience in dealing with difficult situations and making decisions with a sense of urgency is needed.
Experience in one or more of the following is preferred: C, C++, Java, Python, Go, Perl or Ruby.
Interest in designing, analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
We need team members with an appetite for change and pushing the boundaries of what can be done with automation. Experience in working across development, operations, and product teams to prioritize needs and to build relationships is a must.
For work on our dev ops team, engineer with experience in industry standard CI/CD tools like Git/BitBucket, Jenkins, Maven, Artifactory, and Chef. Experience designing and implementing an effective and efficient CI/CD flow that gets code from dev to prod with high quality and minimal manual effort is required.
Must Have : Production Support experience with Mainframe (COBOL JCL CICS DB2).
Deep knowledge of architecture techniques and tools. Knowledge of a broad array of technology including many of the following technologies:
o Basic to Intermediate understanding about Cloud - AWS, Azure, Or vmWare PCF.
o Core Java including multi-threading and batch processing
o Web Services - REST/XML/ WSDL/SOAP
o J2EE Web Application/Web Services with JBoss & WebSphere
o Oracle & PL/SQL
o Red Hat Linux & Solaris/UNIX
o Messaging - MQ and JMS
o Rich internet applications using GWT (Google Web Toolkit) and/or GXT (EXT GWT), ExtJS, Flex
o Fusion Tools including Jira, Crucible, & Bamboo
o Security Coding Techniques and Tools - Fortify, & OWASP vulnerabilities
o Hibernate & Spring
o Subversion Source Control
Knowledge in the areas of strategy, technology, and planning.
Some experience establishing governance for interrelated applications and matrixed organizations.
Knowledge of MasterCard and the payments industry preferred."

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 based on location, experience and other qualifications for the role and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. 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 new parent leave, up to 20 paid days bereavement leave), 10 annual paid sick days, 10 or more annual paid vacation days based on level, 5 personal days, 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, gender-inclusive benefits and many more.

Pay Ranges
O'Fallon, Missouri: $75,000 - $125,000 USD