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
Senior Platform Engineer
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
Senior Platform Engineer
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
The Global Provisioning Team provides consumers with a single point of contact to request infrastructure changes, reduce hand-offs and SLA wait time.
The Senior Platform Engineer drives efficiency and provides value to our internal customers and stakeholders by being part of a global team implementing network configuration changes.
The ideal candidate is highly motivated, intellectually curious, and drives continuous process improvement to increase efficiency and reduce delivery timelines.
Role
In this position, you will:
- Conduct necessary capacity planning to negate wait times for network switch procurement by correlating demand to technology requirements, implementing process bulk ordering and maintaining a switch inventory for install and change activities.
- Integrate network access switch provisioning into the Datacenter Engineering build timeline for all environments.
- Prepare high quality documentation and follow all established change management processes.
- Work efficiently in a high security environment.
- Communicate clearly and effectively to all levels of the organization and with external partners.
All About You
- Platform engineering expertise with exposure to two or more of the following areas: LAN, firewalls, Routing and Switching technologies while adhering to standard design methodologies and best practices.
- Mastery of TCP/IP protocol communications, addressing & subnetting, knowledgeable with IPV6 addressing.
- Knowledge of Cisco’s product portfolio: routers, switches, ACI.
- Knowledge of Aruba product portfolio: switches, ClearPass, APs.
- Knowledge of Arista product portfolio: Spine leaf architecture, Cloud Vision.
- Cisco certifications such as CCNA and DCCOR preferred.
- Familiarity with scripting tools such as Python, Ansible and Automation to improve process efficiencies and remove errors due to manual inputs.
- Knowledge of Infoblox (inc. DHCP, DNS).
- Datacenter support experience including racking and cabling of IT equipment is a plus.
- Ability to follow process - Evaluate and propose process enhancements to drive efficiencies.
Desirable or additional capabilities
- Strong verbal and written communications skills, and excellent customer support capabilities.
- Self-motivated demonstrating strong organizational and listening skills; and very detail oriented with the ability to carry out assigned tasks with minimal supervision.
- Ability to consistently act in a professional manner and communicate with all levels of the organization, both internally and externally.
- Methodical problem resolving skills.
- Implementation of Cisco ACI.
- Understanding of Arista spine-leaf technologies and Cloud Vision is good to have.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Math, Engineering or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Corporate Security Responsibility
Every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security. All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and therefore, it is expected that the successful candidate for this position 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.
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:
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Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;
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Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
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Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
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Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.
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