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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 Devops Engineer OverviewWe are looking for a Lead DevOps engineer to strengthen our engineering workflows for mission-critical application in Financial Crime Solution space. You will take ownership of CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, Kubernetes tooling that support systems designed to identify fraud, money laundering, and other financial risks. We craft bespoke services that help our clients gain an understanding of the underlying criminal behaviour that drives financial crime, empowering them to take action.
This is a hands-on role, focused on building scalable, reliable automation enabling consistent delivery of workloads. You'll work closely with developers and QA teams to ensure delivery processes are efficient, compliant and traceable.
Role
Lead the creation, maintenance and optimisation of CI/CD pipelines to automate the deployment of applications. Focus should be on improving efficiency, speed and reliability of deployments.
Use CI/CD, Terraform to seamlessly deploy solutions across environments with minimal manual intervention.
Work closely with development & QA teams to ensure application deployments follow best practices and are integrated in the CI/CD pipelines. Ensure smooth deployment of new features and fixes to test, and stage.
Ensure that environment-specific configuration is automated and consistently applied during developments such as certificates, secrets, database connections. Use Terraform or similar, to manage these configurations.
Manage handover to the live support team and assist with capturing and prioritising defects.
Work with our software engineers, seek to develop a self-healing and resilient set of microservices, promoting good operational principles during our research, design, and development phases.
Manage communications and engagement with stakeholders including platform support, project management and live support DevOps.
Report status and manage risks within your primary application/service.
Develop complete understanding of end-to-end technical architecture and dependency systems.
The role is hybrid, based in Gurgaon, India, and the expectation is that you attend the office according to Mastercard policy.
All About You
You are a DevOps specialist skilled in the cultural and technical principles & practices of the DevOps movement, with experience of implementing a DevOps approach and associated tools within an organization. You have a desire to continually strengthen your own skills and the ability to transfer those skills to others. You look for efficiencies, optimisations, and ways to improve through automation.
You can lead DevOps initiative in the organization, define and develop best practices for deploying engineering workloads.
You have a proven track-record of working in DevOps capacity where you have collaborated with teams across development, platforms, operations to implement automation and continuous integration.
You are comfortable communicating with a range of stakeholders, including subject matter experts, data scientists, software engineers and enterprise DevOps and security professionals.
You have hands-on experience with writing code. You have a firm grasp of traditional data warehousing, can write SQL, and can optimise the use of a large relational database, as well as experience with NoSQL.
You have experience with, and are interested in, contemporary approaches to service design, including the use of containers and container orchestration technologies, streaming data platforms, APIs and in-memory/NoSQL stores.
You understand how to build and operate deployment pipelines.
You can debug products end to end through logs and error messages.
You have Kubernetes experience.
Experience & hands on knowledge of Unix/Linux.
You can deploy and optimise container-based streaming, storage and logging technologies and manage their operation during software development and testing.
Experience of working within Agile frameworks including Scrum and Kanban.
Experience with Git version control and branching strategies, e.g. trunk-based development, gitflow.
You can write clear and concise documentation designed to be used by other devops and bizops teams, e.g. run books.
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.
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