Lead BizOps 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 BizOps Engineer

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.

Technology at Mastercard

What we create today will define tomorrow. Revolutionary technologies that reshape the digital economy to be more connected and inclusive than ever before. Safer, faster, more sustainable. And we need the best people to do it. Technologists who are energized by the challenges of a truly global network. With the talent and vision to create the critical systems and products that power global commerce and connect people everywhere to the vital goods and services they need every day.
Working at Mastercard means being part of a unique culture. Inclusive and diverse, a rich collaboration of ideas and perspectives. A place that celebrates your strengths, values your experiences, and offers you the flexibility to shape a career across disciplines and continents. And the opportunity to work alongside experts and leaders at every level of the business, improving what exists, and inventing what's next.

About the Role

The Business Operations (Biz Ops) team is seeking a Business Operations Site Reliability Engineer
(SRE).
The role of Business Operations Organization is to be the production readiness steward for Mastercard products. As a Business Operations SRE, we are responsible for ensuring that our platform is stable and healthy. We break down barriers to run our products by fostering developer run ownership and empowering developers to build resilient products. We support our developers during the application build phase in software run principals that includes operational design, automation, capacity planning, monitoring that leads to fault-tolerant, scalable products. We see the big picture and help create and enforce operations standards while facilitating an agile and learning culture.
We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Sr./Lead/Principal 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.

All About the Program You Support:

The Mastercard Authorization Platform is an international message processing system that serves all Mastercard principals, affiliates, and associations: large and small, automated and non-automated. The Authorization Platform transmits authorization validation data among issuers, acquirers, and points of interaction.
The Authorization Platform refers to both hardware (the physical communications lines of the Mastercard Network and Mastercard interface processors [MIPs]) and software (the Mastercard Network authorization application).

Team Specific Skills:

Proven experience in Data Science, Data Analytics, Data Engineering Tools like Power BI/Alteryx/ DW / PL/SQL / scripting, ETL tools etc.
Expert coding experience in one or more of the following:
o (Options): C++, Java, Spring Framework, Python, Go, Spark, Bigdata, GRPC.
Experience with algorithms, data structures, scripting, pipeline management, and software design.
Ability to read, write, and understand code in one of the programming languages such as Java, Spring Framework, Python, Go.
Experience in working across development, operations, and product teams to prioritize needs and to build relationships is a must.
Familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (a plus).
Experience with Message Queue (MQ) technologies like RabbitMQ, Event Broker, Kafka, or ActiveMQ.
Background on cloud native tooling and orchestration technologies (Kubernetes preferred).
Experience in observability tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Datadog, Grafana, and Monitoring as a Code.
Experience in production support environments and ITIL processes.
Experience with industry standard CI/CD tools like Git/BitBucket, Jenkins, Maven, Artifactory, Groovy 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.
Understanding of:
o Client-server relationships
o Network concepts (Layer 1 to Layer 3)
o Stack trace analysis (TCP dumps, heap dumps, CPU/memory analysis, thread dumps).
o Load balancers and application firewalls.
o Operating System navigation.
o Logging and monitoring methods, standards, and tools.
o High availability and business continuity planning
o Caching concepts
o Configuration management
Hands-on experience in Modernization through the adoption of Kubernetes and containerization technologies like Docker and Azure Container Registry.
Ability to speak about Kubernetes from different perspectives: Comfortable handling Kubernetes discussions at the technical, business, or financial level.
Strategizing, designing, and supporting highly efficient solutions on Public Cloud (Amazon Web Services, Azure or Google Cloud Platform) for security, resilience, performant, networking, availability, Blue-green deployments in context of business application.
Azure DevOps (AZ - 400), Azure Cloud Developer (AZ-203) certificate is preferred.
Hands-on expertise in diverse DevSecOps concepts/tools, especially on Azure DevOps, Pipelines, GitHub, GitHub actions.
Knowledge of emerging technologies, various platforms, tools and products and their respective applications.
Awareness of security implementations, certificate management lifecycle, mutual TLS, SSL handshake, SSH keys, symmetric and asymmetric encryption

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: $112,000 - $187,000 USD