Lead Software Engineer

Lead Software Engineer Lead Cloud Software Engineer


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 Global Open Banking team is looking for a Lead Cloud Software Engineer 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 agile mindset.

Role
In this role, you will:
Participate in the implementation of new systems, develop strategic thinking and develop process, tools, and frameworks to help ensure effectiveness across teams
Be responsible for the analysis, design, development and delivery of software solutions
Define requirements for new applications and customizations, adhering to standards, processes and best practices
Plan and execute maintenance, upgrades, and migrations activities in different environments as Dev, Stage, and Prod
Design and develop resilient scalable infrastructure that avoids downtime and service interruptions
Interface with external logging, monitoring, and security vendors
Build out infrastructure as code, standard system images, and application images in Docker
Oversees and provides technical support to junior team members
Provide oncall coverage on rotation basis

All About You
Skills and experience required to be successful in this role:

Managing medium-sized project/initiatives as an individual contributor with advanced knowledge within discipline, leading a segment of several initiatives or a larger initiative, or formally supervise a small team, and assigns day-to-day work
Design and develop applications, system to system interfaces and complete software solutions, performs vendor-related activities, and creates documentation such as user guides and software development guides
Oversee and provide technical support to junior team members
Significant advanced code development, code review and modest day-to-day support duties
Expertise in AWS Cloud, developing solution offerings for new and existing Cloud projects. Demonstrate a advanced level of knowledge and understanding of various AWS service offerings
Kubernetes experience, managing large scale Kubernetes clusters. Experience with kops or Rancher or any equivalent provided cluster, alternate CNIs and managing scalability of the cluster
Infrastructure as Code Experience, demonstrate advanced level of programming methodologies used to augment terraform using Python, bash, or Go and related programming tools such as VSCode and git
Expertise in Kubernetes cluster backup and restoration techniques and tools
Be creative with solutioning yet be simple with implementation
Technology, Tools Required:
Kubernetes - Certified Kubernetes Administrator level expertise
AWS - Solution Architect Professional or Associate level expertise
Kops/Rancher/EKS - Cluster provisioning tool expert level experience
Terraform - IaC expert level experience
CI/CD - Gitlab or equivalent continuous delivery tool expertise
Linux - Linux expertise and Certifications
Cluster back and restore tech stack
Autoscaling Kubernetes nodes - scaling solutions
RBAC configuration for cluster access
Service mesh - experience managing a large scale prod environment

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.

• 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.