Senior Platform Engineer (Linux engineer with programming skill)

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

Senior Platform Engineer (Linux engineer with programming skill)

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 Opearting Systems team is looking for a Lead Systems Platform Engineering to drive our customer experience strategy forward by consistently innovating and problem-solving. The ideal candidate is passionate about the customer experience journey, highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical, and possesses an entrepreneurial mindset.
Role
• Operating Systems (OS) installations , configuration, systems integration, systems management and security, maintenance, monitoring, troubleshooting, applying patches and upgrades, data and server backup of Oracle Linux and Redhat Linux
• Troubleshoots networking, Unix/Linux systems, and applications to identify and correct malfunctions and other operational problems utilizing associated Linux and UNIX command line and management tools.
• Administer, monitor and implement all Unix/Linux servers within the highly available distributed datacenter infrastructure.
• Maintain and manage all aspects of Unix/Linux server maintenance from operating system patching to security updates on a timely basis.
• Implements system security policy and maintains compliance
• Documents the design of the operating systems, like minimization and hardening.
• System administration support for application servers and services.
• Installs and debugs new and upgraded software on server and client platforms, ensuring compliance with current site licenses; designs, programs with scripts.
• Provides advice, training and technical support for various projects.
• As new technologies emerge and impact our systems, the System Administrator shall expect to learn these technologies very quickly and resolve any problems involved in integrating new technologies.
• Maintains a broad knowledge of state-of-the-art technology, equipment, and/or systems.
• Self-Driven and flexible willing to learn Chef automation). Initiative to learn more.
• Thorough, adhering to critical processes even under stress
• Support business disaster recovery procedures for assigned areas of responsibility.
• Accurately document duties and procedures to aid the department in cross-training and absentee coverage.
All About You
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• Bachelor Degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience with Linux Operating Systems.
• Solid understanding of the Linux OS and can perform system analysis and tuning.
• Bitbucket – The ability of checking out code, code reviews, doing pull requests and approvals
• Artifactory – Familiar with accessing and finding artifacts.
• Hands-on hardware and software Linux Server troubleshooting 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:

• 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.