Job 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.

Job Title

Senior Engineer, Systems Platform Engineering

Job Overview:
Provide senior level support of technical hardware and software expertise in support of MasterCard Unix (IBM AIX ) and Oracle/RedHat Linux Operating systems and platforms. This is an Senior level IT support position, with the expectation that the candidate has the very good Unix skills and is also willing to learn fast. Assist other senior Unix administrators, Managers/Leaders & Consultants with IT support functions and maintenance activities.

Major Accountabilities:
Operating Systems (OS) installations , configuration, systems integration, systems management and security, maintenance, monitoring, troubleshooting, applying patches and upgrades, data and server backup of AIX, Oracle Linux and Redhat Linux
Troubleshoots networking, Unix/Linux systems, and applications to identify and correct malfunctions and other operational problems utilizing associated Linux and UNIX command line and management tools.
Administer, monitor and implement all Unix/Linux servers within the highly available distributed datacenter infrastructure.
Maintain and manage all aspects of Unix/Linux server maintenance from operating system patching to security updates on a timely basis.
Implements system security policy and maintains compliance
Documents the design of the operating systems, like minimization and hardening.
System administration support for application servers and services.
Installs and debugs new and upgraded software on server and client platforms, ensuring compliance with current site licenses; designs, programs with scripts.
Provides advice, training and technical support for various projects.
As new technologies emerge and impact our systems, the System Administrator shall expect to learn these technologies very quickly and resolve any problems involved in integrating new technologies.
Maintains a broad knowledge of state-of-the-art technology, equipment, and/or systems.
Self-Driven and flexible willing to learn in adjacent areas (specifically configuration of MIP Software). Initiative to learn more.
Thorough, adhering to critical processes even under stress
Support business disaster recovery procedures for assigned areas of responsibility.
Accurately document duties and procedures to aid the department in cross-training and absentee coverage.

Required Skills:
Experience with AIX, Oracle Linux and Red Hat Linux administration, maintenance and support. Redhat RPM (RedHat Package Manager building, scripting, executing).
Networking experience from basics to advanced OS configurations along with security knowledge
Experience in installation and monitoring of Application Servers
Experience Network File Systems (NFS), SSH services including standard daemons, protocols and applications.
Proficient with some type of scripting or programming language such as Perl and shell scripting,
Bitbucket The ability of checking out code, code reviews, doing pull requests and approvals
Artifactory Familiar with accessing and finding artifacts.
Chef Understands the concepts and can read and do minor changes to cookbooks (uses Ruby)
Hands-on hardware and software troubleshooting experience
Ability to solve problems quickly and completely.
Ability to identify tasks which should be automated and then write the necessary scripts.
Solid understanding of the OS and can perform system analysis and tuning.

Due to COVID-19, most of our employees are working from home. Weve implemented a virtual hiring process and continue to interview candidates by phone or video and are onboarding new hires remotely. We value the safety of each member of our community because we know were all in this together.

Mastercard is an inclusive Equal Employment 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.

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