Senior Reliability Engineer

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 Reliability 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.
About the Role
The Transaction Switching (Authorization) Business Operations (Biz Ops) team is seeking a Service Management Reliability Engineer (SMRE).
The role of the Business Operations Organization is to be the production readiness steward for
Mastercard products. As a Biz Ops SMRE, we are responsible for assuring highly reliable service
functionality by creating and maintaining service management strategies, tools, and service-level
objectives to deliver reliable, zero-touch solutions for application and infrastructure products and
services. We see the big picture and help create and enforce operations standards while facilitating an
agile and learning culture.
SMREs primarily support the development of documentation, analysis, and improvement of processes
and strategies, enabling program teams to realize goals of proactive engagement in the development
lifecycle, thought leadership within service management strategies, reliability of tools and service level
objectives, and automated solutions. We help program teams adhere to regulatory, and risk compliance
to policy and are often involved in federated roles such as change, incident, problem, or service request
managers, communication leads, process leads, program managers, and/or others.
Ultimately, the role of Business Operations is to align Product and Customer-focused priorities with
Operational needs by providing continuous feedback throughout the lifecycle.
It is not expected that any single candidate would have expertise across all these areas, but a Biz Ops
Service Management Reliability Engineer will primarily spend much of their role within these role-based
skills:
• Experience with data analysis and reporting, including employing concepts of data strategy,
specifically in business intelligence for supporting innovation, maturity of practice(s), and the
assessment of regulatory and compliance-based risks.
• Ability to analyze Information Technology Service Management (ITSM) activities of the platform
and provide a continuous feedback loop to development teams on operational gaps or resiliency
concerns.
• Knowledge of incident, change, and knowledge management space, including incident
communications, as well, as problem management and ITSM processes, data, and usage.
• Knowledge of Information Technology Asset Management (ITAM), practices, processes, and
management.
• Knowledge of DevOps and observability techniques needed to deploy and monitor applications.
• The ability to translate operational maturity control activities into procedures and practices for
the team.
• Support of Mastercard controls through a partnership with auditors, as well as Technology Risk
Management (TRM), including Archer, as well as developing knowledge of payment card control
frameworks such as PCI, PFMI, SOC, and SOX.
• Working knowledge or experience creating release-specific deployment criteria and applying
those criteria during the software development lifecycle (SDLC) as a gate to deploying software
into production.
• Supports quality engineering best practices to deliver services and solutions that meet
stakeholder's needs (e.g., consumers, merchants, issuers, and governments).
• Monitor operational team objectives to ensure teams are achieving the set goals.
• Create and monitor team resources to ensure adequate documentation exists to support guild
requirements.
Role Qualifications
The ideal candidate will have experience in many of these areas:
• Bachelor’s degree in information systems, Information Technology, Computer Science,
Engineering, or equivalent work experience.
• Experience in a SRE role or related field
• Experience in working across development, operations, and product teams to prioritize needs
and build relationships is a must.
• Experience in production support environments and with ITIL processes
• Have a curiosity to ask the right questions to identify the root cause, solve upstream challenges,
and act with a bias toward action with pervasive ownership over your domain, the problem
space, and the mission before you.
• SMREs daily employ critical thinking across problems they solve, the relationships they manage,
and the space in which they support.
• Risk awareness, of the risk(s) associated with the program(s) you support, across Biz Ops
processes and practices, seeking to “do no harm” yet further, taking proactive, thoughtful risks
in innovation while always ensuring alignment to Mastercard’s regulatory, risk-based
requirements.
• Requires capability to integrate theory and principles with organizational practices and
precedents.
• Demonstrates an intermediate knowledge of a program or set of services, including an
understanding of the customer journey and primary business drivers for the program.
• Provides guidance to less experienced team members on defined procedures and may
supervise/coordinate work across individual contributors.
• Appetite for change and pushing the boundaries of what can be done with automation. Be
curious about new technology, infrastructure, and practices to scale our architecture and
prepare for future growth.
• Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with strong communication skills and a sense of
ownership and drive.
• Interest in working with, assessing data of, and understanding common challenges associated
with large-scale distributed systems.
• Willingness and ability to learn and take on challenging opportunities and to work as a member
of matrix matrix-based diverse and geographically distributed project team.
• Ability to balance doing the right thing whiles right with fixing things quickly. Flexible and
pragmatic, while working towards improving the long-term health of the system.
• Comfortable collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure Biz Ops processes, procedures,
and levels of maturity, in support of production resilience.
• Demonstrate working knowledge of key ITSM practices which include Incident Management,
Change Management, Problem Management, and Service Request Management.
• Work to enforce change management processes and standards while simultaneously working to
improve the process.

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 [email protected] 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.