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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.
Title and Summary
Principal Software Engineer – Network Engineering
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 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 Software Engineering team is looking for a Principal 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 possesses an entrepreneurial mindset
Overview
The Open Banking, Distributed Systems and Networking team is looking for a Principal Cloud Network Engineer to help lead cloud infrastructure projects that consist of development and delivery of enhanced automation solutions as well as research into alternative technical solutions for changing business needs.
Role
• Successfully lead major projects and complex assignments with broad scope and long-term business implications.
• Assist with day to day system development and maintenance activities of the team to meet service level agreements (SLAs).
• As recognized subject matter expert, lead planning, design and implementation of technical solutions specifically in the area of AWS VPCs, Networking routes, Transit Gateway, and Customer Gateways.
• Create solution definition and solution architecture.
• Assist in examining commercially available and forthcoming industry technologies related to area of expertise.
• Research on current and upcoming technologies and application appropriate frameworks and provide recommendations to Management.
• Perform PoCs (Proof of Concept) and help Global Open Banking in the selection of Technology.
• Proactively create and maintain solution and technology road maps.
• Create detailed cost and time estimates for implementing business solutions, define technical scope and requirements of the project and assist project manager with managing scope during the lifecycle of the project.
• Assist in vendor selection and RFI/RFP process.
• Actively look for opportunities to modify and enhance standards per the needs of the department.
• Develop documentation templates, lead and enforce development of documentation through out the development lifecycle of the solution.
Knowledge / Experience:
• Advanced experience in related field, including advanced experience in delivering secure solutions in Cloud Native environments is preferred.
• Advanced knowledge and understanding of Software Defined Networking Concepts and Methodologies is required.
• Intermediate to advanced experience with Kubernetes and related container based platforms is required.
• Intermediate to advanced experience with Terraform or other Infrastructure as Code tools is required.
• Intermediate to advanced experience with enterprise linux servers is required.
• Intermediate to advanced experience with Cisco Devices, Palo Alto, F5, or similar devices preferred.
• Demonstrate MC Core Competencies.
Skills/ Abilities
• Ability to be high-energy, detail-oriented, proactive and able to function under pressure in an independent environment along with a high degree of initiative and self-motivation to drive results.
• Strong communication skills — both verbal and written – and strong relationship, collaboration skills and organizational skills.
• Ability to quickly learn and implement new technologies, frameworks and tools and support multiple concurrent activities and to interface with external / internal resources, working as a member of a matrix based diverse and geographically distributed project team.
Responsibilities
• Own complex problems having dependency across services and facilitate cross-functional team interactions to drive resolution
• Write code to build and enhance infrastructure templates, services, and platforms and promote code-reviews, code scanning, and other standard development practices to deliver high-quality artifacts to production.
• Drive prioritization decisions and trade-offs in working with product partners
• Identify opportunities and build roadmaps to enhance primary service/function
• Automate and simplify all aspects of cloud infrastructure implementation and development actively evangelizing the need to automate and simplify where needed.
• Drive seamless integration across all connected services to meet end-user expectations
• Drive blameless postmortems culture to identify root causes of incidents and implement learnings
• Introduce new technologies and architecture by following enterprise guidelines
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 reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.com 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:
• 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.
In line with Mastercard’s total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary based on location, experience and other qualifications for the role and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance), flexible spending account and health savings account, paid leaves (including 16 weeks new parent leave, up to 20 paid days bereavement leave), 10 annual paid sick days, 10 or more annual paid vacation days based on level, 5 personal days, 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays, 401k with a best-in-class company match, deferred compensation for eligible roles, fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities, eligibility for tuition reimbursement, gender-inclusive benefits and many more.
Pay Ranges
Salt Lake City, Utah: $165,000 – $264,000 USD
