Principal Platform Engineer Job Listing at Mastercard in Dublin (Job ID R-221348)

Description

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

Principal 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 EU Open Banking Platform Engineering team is looking for a principal platform engineer to help execute and oversee our cloud native platform. The ideal candidate has experience delivering Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs). Has deep expertise with Kubernetes, AWS and is highly motivated, technically curious, an eloquent speaker, and possesses the ability to lead large technical projects.

In this technical leadership position, you will:

· Partner with architecture, developers, SRE, cloud engineering, business operations to automate everything, improve workflows and design and deliver solutions.

· Oversee execution of our cloud native and platform strategy, working on IDP and CI/CD to Kubernetes and AWS.

· Take responsibility of our developer experience and improve how things get to production.

· Create alignment across multiple departments and groups.

· Push the global vision of our platform forward with architecture and other groups.

· Ensure that the systems meet all security, scalability and compliance standards.

All About You

The ideal candidate for this position should:

· Look at everything through the eyes of our engineers and see their needs and how to make their lives easier, more efficient while enforcing standards and security.

· Has intermediate to advanced knowledge in Kubernetes.

· Understands Linux/Posix systems and strong knowledge of networking fundamentals.

· Has intermediate to advanced knowledge of AWS.

· Has intermediate to advanced knowledge of Terraform.

· Do demos of new features within the platform or demos for business stakeholders.

· Guide and develop out the minimal viable product with architecture and lead engineers on new systems.

· Have a security-first mindset and ideas on how to enable it

· Has experience and thought leadership in Internal Development Platforms and CI/CD.

· Has intermediate to advanced knowledge in development practices and languages including Golang, NodeJS and Python.

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.

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