Role

• Working within a global team, the candidate will be responsible for day 2 operations of the platform and its running workloads; continually improving operational efficiency, improving cost effectiveness, and creating operational excellence.

• Will include championing best practices, working with stakeholders across the business, creating a culture of collaboration.

• Requires previous experience of Kubernetes within an organization, and to be proficient with infrastructure / platform automation, with the ability to evangelize these across the organization.

• Is primarily focused on services, ensuring we meet their SLAs and efficiency targets, providing support for solutions based upon principles of high-availability, agility, scale and efficiency.

• Requires experience with:

o Infrastructure as code.

o Infrastructure and network technologies.

o Kubernetes and containerised workloads.

o Monitoring, and reporting tools.

o Troubleshooting of complex environmental issue.

o Participation in automation initiatives driving change and efficiencies.

o Sharing knowledge with other members of the team through retros, planning meetings and daily standups.

o Supporting product development teams

o Agile working practices

All About You

• Experience with building and running on-premises Kubernetes (ideally OpenShift). CKA, CKAD, or CKS certifications a plus.

• Infrastructure experience. Networking, storage, and compute (ideally VMWare).

• Demonstrated ability to organize, manage, plan and control several concurrent initiatives with conflicting needs.

• Track record of successful delivery in a large enterprise environment.

• Familiarity or working knowledge of public cloud patterns (AWS/EKS, Azure/AKS); container tools (Kubernetes, Docker); pipeline tools (Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform); ancillary (Gatekeeper, SonarQube, Hashicorp Vault); logging and monitoring (Loki, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Dynatrace); scripting (Python, Bash), Go programming language.

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.

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