\\\\Our Purpose\\\\ \Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, were 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\\\\ Senior Systems Platform Engineer Senior Unix Platform System Engineer Overview As a Virtualisation & Compute Unix Administrator you would be focused on build, implementation and support of Vocalink Core Services of Virtualisation & Compute platforms (Redhat, OEL, Solaris, OVM, VMware). The role requires a focus on service to ensure that all SLAs and availability targets are met. The role also requires thought leadership and an ability to drive IT initiatives that continually improve our efficiency, agility, performance, availability, and operational excellence. Responsibilities Coordinates the building and maintaining of system and platform technologies and environments, including associated software products Performs lifecycle management for supported hardware platforms, including technical refresh planning and capacity upgrades Participates in the planning and implementation of system/platform updates to optimize performance, efficiency, and capacity Performs holistic platform security posture which includes identifying risks, escalating potential concerns, and implementing both risk mitigation plans and control functions Completes status reports, troubleshooting guides, and project plans to provide in-depth technical assistance to development programmers and customers Resolves chronic complex problems, providing managerial operational support to maintain systems and platforms May perform financial planning, forecasting, and budget tracking to reduce total cost of ownership and allocate resources efficiently Assist 3rd line support in the analysis of root causes of all major issues, planning redesigns where appropriate. Work in partnership with 3rd party suppliers, understanding and implementing industry best practice across our technology stack. Experience Experience leading a major work stream or multiple smaller work streams for a large platform system domain initiative, often providing technical guidance and advice to ensure consistent deployment of solutions Implement UNIX/Linux/Platform installs and upgrades Implement UNIX/Linux/Platform 3rd Party Software installs and upgrades. Document and manage change to existing hardware/software platforms. Experience setting priorities, objectives, and driving deliverables within global technology domains and sub-domains Experience engaging with the broader technical community to anticipate developments in innovation, often evaluating new solutions and recommending future business platform system requirements Experience performing process improvements and automation activities for operational and financial value, applying tools and technologies Successfully served as a go-to-person to resolve and prevent platform system infrastructure issues, deriving impactful solutions Technical and Professional Skills: - RedHat and/or OEL - Advanced Solaris 10 & 11- Advanced Solaris Zones & LDOMs Intermediate Patching & Live upgrades Advanced Volume Managers, ZFS, VXFM - Advanced Clustering experience - Advanced Virtual Machine Management (OVM) Advanced VMWare Intermediate HCI experience (VxRail, Stack or) - Advanced Converged experience (Exadata, Supercluster, PCA) Advanced Chassis / Blade based server technology Advanced X86 hardware Advanced Networking skills TCP/IP, DNS, SSH, DNS, LDAP Advanced Automation (Python,) - Advanced Jumpstart - Intermediate Satellite - Intermediate Splunk Basic Qualys Intermediate Broad experience across ITIL Service Management disciplines. Storage technologies (DellEMC, HP) Intermediate Backup technologies Basic Atlassian experience Jira, Confluence Intermediate Agile methodology awareness (Scrum/Kanban) Intermediate Terraform & Ansible Advanced DevOps Tooling (Ansible, Git) - Advanced Infrastructure As Code experience - Advanced Infrastructure & Network awareness Advanced At least one shell scripting language (Bash, Bourne, Perl, C-Shell) HSM experience - Intermediate \\\\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 Mastercards 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 Mastercards guidelines.

The role requires experience leading major work streams or multiple smaller work streams for large platform system domain initiatives, often providing technical guidance. It involves implementing UNIX/Linux/Platform installs and upgrades, as well as 3rd party software installs and upgrades. The position requires documenting and managing changes to existing hardware/software platforms. Experience setting priorities, objectives, and driving deliverables within global technology domains is necessary. Engaging with the broader technical community to anticipate developments in innovation and evaluating new solutions is also required. Performing process improvements and automation activities for operational and financial value, applying tools and technologies, is a key qualification. Successfully serving as a go-to person to resolve and prevent platform system infrastructure issues, deriving impactful solutions, is also essential.