Lead, Platform Engineering

Mastercard•O'fallon, MO

1d•$122,000 - $207,000

About The Position

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 Lead, Platform Engineering Overview • Work with various lines of business in a collaborative effort to ensure all Network assets on the Mastercard network are properly tracked by collecting data on ownership as well as ensuring alignment with the asset lifecycle from deployment through disposal. • Develops new and modifies existing networks in support of application services. • Advises the business on priorities for network design and implementation. • Manages network infrastructure to ensure security, availability, recoverability, performance, integrity, and supportability.

Requirements

Experience leading a major work stream or multiple smaller work streams for a large network domain initiative, often providing technical guidance and advice to ensure consistent deployment of solutions
Experience setting priorities, objectives, and driving deliverables
Experience teaming with leaders in the technical community to derive new solutions and drive quality and consistency globally within global network technology domains and sub-domains
Experience engaging with the broader technical community to anticipate developments in innovation, often evaluating new solutions and business network requirements
Successfully served as an expert resource or go-to-person for network infrastructure issues or solutions
Experience building collaborative working relationships with internal and external partners across technology domains
Experience creating and delivering presentations for internal learning, training events and/or business discussions
Experience motivating and providing regular feedback to team members; resolves performance issues
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.

Responsibilities

Manages and maintain Mastercard's network infrastructure including implementing network enhancements and providing production support and maintenance of existing networks
Monitors network performance to identify areas of concern and implements strategies to improve processes and efficiencies
Leads day-to-day building, maintaining, and monitoring of networks for all environments (i.e., corporate, production, etc.)
Assesses Mastercard's network security to ensure effective network safeguard processes are in place and operational networks are running effectively for hosted production systems
Serves as a point of escalation, resolving problems of diverse scopes where analysis of the situation requires in-depth evaluation and judgement
Performs and presents complex vendor comparisons and cost studies to support the planning of large scale system projects

Benefits

insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance)
flexible spending account and health savings account
paid leaves (including 16 weeks of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave)
80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time, 25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days, pro-rated based on date of hire
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
and many more