Lead Linux Platform Engineer

1 week ago


London, United Kingdom Mastercard Full time

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.
Lead Platform Engineer - Unix/Linux
As a Virtualisation & Compute systems platform engineer you would be focused on build, implementation and support of Mastercard ONE (RTP & Applications) Virtualisation & Compute platforms (UNIX, Linux, Redhat, VMware).
The role also requires thought leadership and an ability to drive IT initiatives that continually improve our efficiency, agility, performance, availability and operational excellence.


Coordinates the building and maintaining of system and platform technologies and environments, including associated software products
Performs lifecycle management for supported hardware platforms, including technical refresh planning and capacity upgrades
Participates in the planning and implementation of system/platform updates to optimize performance, efficiency, and capacity
Performs holistic platform security posture which includes identifying risks, escalating potential concerns, and implementing both risk mitigation plans and control functions
Completes status reports, troubleshooting guides, and project plans to provide in-depth technical assistance to development programmers and customers
Assist 3rd line support in the analysis of root causes of all major issues, planning redesigns where appropriate.
Experience leading a major work stream or multiple smaller work streams for a large platform system domain initiative, often providing technical guidance and advice to ensure consistent deployment of solutions
Implement UNIX/Linux/Platform installs and upgrades
Implement UNIX/Linux/Platform 3rd Party Software installs and upgrades.
Document and manage change to existing hardware/software platforms.
Experience engaging with the broader technical community to anticipate developments in innovation, often evaluating new solutions and recommending future business platform system requirements
Experience performing process improvements and automation activities for operational and financial value, applying tools and technologies
DevOps Tooling (Jenkins, Argo, Ansible, Git, Azure DevOps, Terraform)
Infrastructure & Network awareness – Advanced
At least one shell scripting language (Bash, Bourne,Go-lang, Python, C-Shell)
Virtual Machine Management. – Exposure to public Cloud Services (Azure & AWS) – Advanced
Exposure to private Cloud services (Azure Stack) – Intermediate
Networking skills TCP/IP, DNS, SSH, DNS, LDAP – Advanced
Automation and exposure to scripting (Python, Bash) - Advanced
Broad experience across Service Management disciplines.
Agile methodology awareness (Scrum/Kanban) – Intermediate
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;
Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and



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