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 Software Engineer (Cloud-DevOps)
Job Description Summary
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 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 (https://www.mastercard.us/en-us/vision/who-we-are/diversity-inclusion.html) 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.
Overview:
The Cyber and Intelligence Solutions (C&I) team is responsible for product management and innovative product development of products and services to address the evolving risk & cyber security needs of all of MasterCard’s various customer segments. The C&I team was established with the responsibility to safeguard all aspects of safety and security in payments and have made great strides with new products, services, and standards, positively impacting all aspects of our current and future payment eco-system.
A Cloud & Devops Engineer manages our production environment, providing a highly available and scalable platform for Ekata to serve our customers. The infrastructure team provides a resource for Engineering to help diagnose production issues and provide guidance on improving the availability and performance of our applications. This position also develops systems, automation, and tools to help make it easier for Engineering teams to deploy services in a fast, automated, and reliable fashion.
• We are looking for a talented and passionate technical lead specializing in DevOps or site reliability engineering (no people management) to join our team in our Vancouver-based office.
• Are you happiest when you’re taking all the pieces and making them work together without a hitch with rock-solid code?
• Would you like to build across the full range of functionality of our global infrastructure as well as get opportunities to do technical design and architecture?
• Do you want to help some of the biggest technology companies with their security challenges and stop attackers in their tracks?
About the Role
• You will be a key member of our growing team which is responsible for building and expanding Mastercard's footprint in the cloud, focusing on increasing service stability, adding application insights, enhancing deployment processes, and improving our products.
• Implement solutions that solve complicated challenges around performance, scaling, and security while instrumenting services to provide high quality insight into emerging issues
• Design and develop applications, system to system interfaces and complete software solutions, perform vendor-related activities, and create documentation such as user guides and software development guides.
• Refine and enhance the development process used within our teams to drive improvements to develop efficiency.
• As a developer, you will manage your own time when accomplishing project goals and are encouraged to grow your skills with continual learning, workshops, conferences and talks. Leadership is technical, meetings are short.
• As an operator, you will manage colonies of servers across multiple environments and regions, deploying updates, migrating databases, and architecting self-healing infinitely scaling services.
All About You
• A qualified candidate will be required to show proficiency in the following areas:
• Demonstrated software development experience in a professional development setting;
• PHP experience, or experience with at least one object-oriented language such as Java, C#, C++, Python, or Scala with some prior experience with PHP or Java;
• Knowledge of testing frameworks and source control systems;
• Experience with building and managing software packages and/or server images;
• Experience in managing servers, networks, and infrastructure with broad knowledge of the following: Linux, networking, servers, virtualization, security, availability, resiliency, redundancy, alerting, and monitoring;
• Familiarity with building scalable distributed data processing and visualization tools;
• Strong problem solving, algorithm design, and complexity analysis skills;
• Exceptional communication, both written and spoken;
Helpful to have:
• Experience in designing, developing, and implementing scalable and resilient RESTful API services
• Experience in writing documentation and creating diagrams;
• Experience working with cloud-based server environments;
• Experience with Azure services such as VMSS, CosmosDB, etc;
• Experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, Kinesis, SQS, SNS, etc.;
• Familiarity with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Azure Resource Manager;
• Familiarity with devops tools such as Packer, Vagrant, Vault, and Consul;
• Familiarity with monitoring tools such as Graphite, Influx, Statsd, Kibana, Logstash, Nagios, and Sensu;
• Familiarity with databases, such as Redis, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, MySQL, or PostgreSQL;
• Bachelors of Computer Science, or equivalent degree or equivalent work experience;
• An interest in fraud detection and security;
Vancouver Pay Range
127,000.00 - 203,000.00 CAD Annual
Mastercard is an inclusive equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact [email protected] and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.
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:
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Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;
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Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
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Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
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Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.
Pay Ranges
Vancouver, Canada: $127,000 - $203,000 CAD
