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

Manager, BizOps

Overview:
The Mastercard BizOps team is looking for a Manager, Site Reliability Engineering who can help us solve problems, build our CI/CD pipeline and lead Mastercard in DevOps automation and best practices.
-\tAre you a born problem solver who loves to figure out how something works?
-\tAre you a CI/CD geek who loves all things automation?
-\tDo you have a low tolerance for manual work and look to automate everything you can?

Business Operations is leading the DevOps transformation at Mastercard through our tooling and by being an advocate for change & standards throughout the development, quality, release, and product organizations. We need team members with an appetite for change and pushing the boundaries of what can be done with automation. Experience in working across development, operations, and product teams to prioritize needs and to build relationships is a must.
This role will support the 'Real Time Payments' products, that allows the transfer of funds instantly. Real-time payments are being used globally to provide a more seamless banking experience for the financially excluded, offering a level of trust that was previously only available through physical cash.
This is a people manager position, which will overseee cover the Alerting & Monitoring, Capacity Management, CI-CD, Agile, Production Support using SRE principles, ITIL practices like Incident Management, Change Management, Problem Management, and Eliminating toil through Automation best practices to deliver on a great customer experience & delight. Encompassing a suite of more than 50 platforms and applications varying from the latest and greatest technologies to legacy technologies, there is enough variety here to keep any technologist sharp. MasterCard's support teams are globally based and this position will be responsible for tying them together into a cohesive, agile and responsive unit that sets a world class standard for operational performance.
Role:
•\tGood Understanding, and exposure to Payment Standards – ISO8583, ISO20022 messaging formats.
•\tExperience supporting Payments Authorization, Clearing, Settlement, Liquidity and Risk Reconciliation processes.
•\tContributes significantly to the engineering strategy for all platforms across multiple application suite and to the production support response strategy by identifying and developing platform improvement and process improvement opportunities.
•\tTroubleshoots applications and implements fixes to decrease time to resolution and minimize dependency on advanced vendor support.
•\tMinimizes application development costs by providing guidance and leadership to application development teams and ensuring sound execution throughout the system development life cycle.
•\tMentors staff and provides assistance to team members as needed.
•\tMaintains skills consistent with the technology roadmap and implements tasks leveraging new technologies as needed.
•\tEngage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services—from inception and design, through deployment, operation and refinement.
•\tAnalyze ITSM activities of the platform and provide feedback loop to development teams on operational gaps or resiliency concerns
•\tSupport services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, capacity planning and launch reviews.
•\tMaintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency and overall system health.
•\tScale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
•\tSupport the application CI/CD pipeline for promoting software into higher environments through validation and operational gating, and lead Mastercard in DevOps automation and best practices.
•\tPractice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.
•\tTake a holistic approach to problem solving, by connecting the dots during a production event thru the various technology stack that makes up the platform, to optimize mean time to recover
•\tWork with a global team spread across tech hubs in multiple geographies and time zones
•\tShare knowledge and mentor junior resources

Qualifications :
•\tBS degree in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding (e.g., physics or mathematics), or equivalent practical experience.
•\tExperience with algorithms, data structures, scripting, pipeline management, and software design.
•\tSystematic problem-solving approach, coupled with strong communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive.
•\tAbility to help debug and optimize code and automate routine tasks.
•\tWe support many different stakeholders. Experience in dealing with difficult situations and making decisions with a sense of urgency is needed.
•\tExperience in one or more of the following is preferred: C, C++, Java, Python, Go, Perl or Ruby.
•\tInterest in designing, analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
•\tWe need team members with an appetite for change and pushing the boundaries of what can be done with automation. Experience in working across development, operations, and product teams to prioritize needs and to build relationships is a must.
•\tFor work on our dev ops team, engineer with experience in industry standard CI/CD tools like Git/BitBucket, Jenkins, Maven, Artifactory, and Chef. Experience designing and implementing an effective and efficient CI/CD flow that gets code from dev to prod with high quality and minimal manual effort is required.
•\tDeep knowledge of architecture techniques and tools. Knowledge of a broad array of technology including many of the following technologies:
o Basic to Intermediate understanding about Cloud – AWS, Azure, Or vmWare PCF.
o Core Java including multi-threading and batch processing
o Web Services - REST/XML/ WSDL/SOAP
o J2EE Web Application/Web Services with JBoss & WebSphere
o Oracle & PL/SQL
o Red Hat Linux & Solaris/UNIX
o Messaging - MQ and JMS
o Rich internet applications using GWT (Google Web Toolkit) and/or GXT (EXT GWT), ExtJS, Flex
o Fusion Tools including Jira, Crucible, & Bamboo
o Security Coding Techniques and Tools - Fortify, & OWASP vulnerabilities
o Hibernate & Spring
o Subversion Source Control
•\tKnowledge in the areas of strategy, technology, and planning.
•\tSome experience establishing governance for interrelated applications and matrixed organizations.
•\tKnowledge of MasterCard and the payments industry preferred.

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.