Senior Platform Engineer
Mastercard24 hours ago
Pune, IndiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, engineer, implement, administer, and provide operational support for enterprise database platforms.
- Establish database engineering standards, governance frameworks, procedures, and platform best practices.
- Drive automation, scalability, reliability, security, developer experience, and platform modernization initiatives.
- Design and support highly available, resilient, and secure database infrastructure solutions.
- Develop Infrastructure as Code and configuration management solutions using tools such as Ansible, Chef, and Puppet.
- Integrate database platforms into CI/CD pipelines and modern software delivery processes.
- Automate provisioning, deployment, patching, upgrades, monitoring, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery activities.
- Partner with engineering, architecture, product, and security teams to deliver enterprise database services.
- Lead troubleshooting, root cause analysis, performance analysis, capacity planning, and incident management.
- Support Oracle, Redis, and PostgreSQL database services across hybrid and cloud-native environments.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend improvements to reliability, scalability, security, and operational efficiency.
- Lead and mentor engineers while influencing technical direction and contributing to platform strategy.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- Advanced expertise in Oracle Exadata/RAC, Redis, and PostgreSQL database engineering, administration, platform operations, and automation in large-scale enterprise environments.
- Deep knowledge of database architecture, resiliency, performance optimization, security, data governance, and operational best practices.
- Strong knowledge of platform engineering, cloud infrastructure engineering, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, and operational reliability.
- Experience supporting enterprise IT infrastructure and modern application platforms with automation at scale.
- Understanding of distributed systems management and microservices-based architectures.
- Experience establishing engineering standards, operational procedures, and platform governance practices.
- Ability to influence technical direction, contribute to technology strategy, and support platform modernization.
- Advanced understanding of database platforms’ relationship to business capabilities, data governance, security, and regulatory requirements.
- Strong communication, stakeholder management, analytical, troubleshooting, collaboration, and cross-functional leadership skills.
- Ability to lead, mentor, and develop engineers while managing multiple priorities and driving continuous improvement.
- Experience with database technologies including MongoDB and Cassandra is relevant.
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About Mastercard
Mastercard builds and operates a global payments network used by banks, merchants, fintechs, and governments, offering card processing, real-time payments, tokenization, and fraud/risk services. It generates revenue from transaction processing and assessment/service fees across more than 200 countries and territories. Founded in 1966 and headquartered in Purchase, New York, Mastercard is a public company listed on the NYSE (ticker: MA).