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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

Principal Linux Platform Architect

Who is Mastercard?

Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is 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. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.

Overview:
Mastercard Distributed Platform Linux Engineering team are comprised of talented, dedicated staff with deep expertise on the Linux operating system. We provide the platform running some of Mastercard's most critical applications and services. We strive to provide excellent service as a strategic partner. We look for ways to use the Linux platform to drive strategic value for Mastercard, while ensuring that our innovations protect Mastercard's reputation for safety and security. This position will be a critical part of our team, helping elevate the skills of our organization, while giving you the candidate to help us drive our next 50 years of success!

Skills

• Communicates organizational vision and infuses external industry standards and best practices into new and innovative strategic changes
• Designs architecture from proof of concept to an operationally functional application and collaborates with peers, engineers, application team(s) and user(s) to determine that all the high-level requirements have been met
• Formulates recommendations to optimize the existing platform architecture including developing creative solutions to drive innovation
• Tracks and manages architecture issues and their corresponding exceptions or corrective action plans to ensure best practices are implemented and adhered to
• Supports process improvement efforts to identify and test opportunities for automation and/or reduction in time to deployment
• Provides consultative advice and remediation to architectural and operational problems impacting infrastructure & product availability and performance globally and evaluates new technology for possible deployment in Mastercard’s overall infrastructure.
• Contributes to technology guild initiatives by engaging and mentoring all levels to improve craftsmanship and conducting architect training
• Mentors and coaches team members by providing training to develop technical skills and capabilities across the organization

Specific skills:

• Demonstratable expertise on Oracle Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and compatible distros preferred
• Demonstratable expertise in configuration management tools such as Chef, Ansible, or Puppet, etc.
• Demonstrated expertise in lifecycle management solutions such as Oracle Linux Manager, Cloud Control, Red Hat Satellite, etc.
• Demonstratable Hypervisor experience such as KVM, VMware, etc
• Demonstratable experience with container solutions, Docker, OpenShift, Kubernetes, etc.

Mastercard is an 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. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.com 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.