Software Engineer II (Kubernetes DevOps Engineer)

Job description
Job Title:

Software Engineer II (Kubernetes DevOps Engineer)

Overview:

Who is Mastercard?

Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments sector. We power payments and provide products and services for individuals and industries all around the world. Our people, technology, data, and brand provide the capabilities that drive our success. We believe in connecting people to priceless possibilities.
As a company, we know that our success is driven by the skills, experience, integrity, and mindset of the talent we hire. By building an inclusive, world-class culture, our employees have once-in-a-career opportunities to be a part of teams that have a greater impact on our community and our world. We invite you to join our team to find out how you too can start something priceless.

Overview
The Builders Enablement Program is hiring engineers with Platform Site Reliability, Kubernetes, and containerisation skills. Mastercard’s Kubernetes platform is globally distributed across Mastercard’s datacentres and is responsible for orchestrating tens of thousands of workloads. Skills to operate the fully automated platform, supporting systems and production workloads will be key.

Role
• Working within a global team, the candidate will be responsible for day 2 operations of the platform and its running workloads; continually improving operational efficiency, improving cost effectiveness, and creating operational excellence.
• Will include championing best practices, working with stakeholders across the business, creating a culture of collaboration.
• Requires previous experience of Kubernetes within an organization, and to be proficient with infrastructure / platform automation, with the ability to evangelize these across the organization.
• Is primarily focused on services, ensuring we meet their SLAs and efficiency targets, providing support for solutions based upon principles of high-availability, agility, scale and efficiency.

• Requires experience with:
o Infrastructure as code.
o Infrastructure and network technologies.
o Kubernetes and containerised workloads.
o Monitoring, and reporting tools.
o Troubleshooting of complex environmental issue.
o Participation in automation initiatives driving change and efficiencies.
o Sharing knowledge with other members of the team through retros, planning meetings and daily standups.
o Supporting product development teams
o Agile working practices
All About You
• Experience with building and running on-premises Kubernetes (ideally OpenShift). CKA, CKAD, or CKS certifications a plus.
• Infrastructure experience. Networking, storage, and compute (ideally VMWare).
• Demonstrated ability to organize, manage, plan and control several concurrent initiatives with conflicting needs.
• Track record of successful delivery in a large enterprise environment.
• Familiarity or working knowledge of public cloud patterns (AWS/EKS, Azure/AKS); container tools (Kubernetes, Docker); pipeline tools (Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform); ancillary (Gatekeeper, SonarQube, Hashicorp Vault); logging and monitoring (Loki, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Dynatrace); scripting (Python, Bash), Go programming language. Read more