Lead Platform Engineer
Mastercard19 hours ago
Pune, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, build, automation, and support of Oracle and PostgreSQL database platforms.
- Engineer highly available and resilient solutions using Oracle RAC, Data Guard, GoldenGate, PostgreSQL Replication, and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL.
- Drive AWS cloud adoption and modernization across database and infrastructure platforms.
- Develop infrastructure-as-code and automation for provisioning, deployment, patching, monitoring, and recovery.
- Implement and enhance CI/CD pipelines while maintaining security and compliance.
- Lead performance optimization, capacity planning, observability, disaster recovery, major incident response, root cause analysis, and platform improvement initiatives.
- Partner with Software Engineering, SRE, Security, and Product teams to deliver reliable and scalable services.
- Mentor engineers and champion engineering best practices, automation, and continuous improvement.
Requirements
- Extensive hands-on experience with Oracle Database administration and engineering, including RAC, ASM, RMAN, Data Guard, and GoldenGate.
- Strong expertise in PostgreSQL and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, including performance tuning, replication, backup, recovery, and high availability.
- Experience designing and supporting large-scale production platforms in AWS, including Aurora, RDS, EC2, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, and S3.
- Strong DevOps and automation experience with Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, or similar technologies.
- Proficiency in scripting and automation with Python, Shell, Bash, or PowerShell.
- Experience implementing monitoring and observability with OEM, Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, Splunk, or CloudWatch.
- Strong understanding of database security, operational resilience, disaster recovery, and compliance requirements.
- Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to balance strategic thinking and hands-on technical execution.
- Preferred: experience in financial services, payments, or high-volume transaction processing environments.
- Preferred: knowledge of Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker, and cloud-native platform technologies.
- Preferred: experience with SRE practices, platform modernization, automation, self-service platforms, or AI-assisted operational capabilities.
- Preferred: AWS, Oracle, PostgreSQL, or related cloud certifications.
Tech Stack
AnsibleAssemblyAWSBashDatadogDockerGitHub ActionsGitLab CI/CDGrafanaJenkinsKubernetesOpenShiftOracle DatabasePostgreSQLPowerShellPrometheusPythonSplunkTerraform
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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).