Cloud Engineer II-R-242419

MasterCard; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 88,000 - 141,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a skilled Cloud Engineer II to manage and enhance their production environment. In this role, you will ensure a highly available and scalable platform while utilizing cutting-edge tools like Jenkins, Terraform, and Kubernetes. Your expertise in Linux systems and cloud providers will be crucial in deploying workloads and maintaining security. This position offers a collaborative culture that values diversity and innovation, providing a unique opportunity to contribute to a digital economy that benefits everyone. Join a team where your skills will drive impactful solutions and help shape the future of secure transactions.

Qualifications

• Experience with provisioning tools and CI/CD tools.
• Proficiency in programming languages like Go and Python.

Responsibilities

• Manage high-availability Ubuntu Linux systems in a cloud environment.
• Deploy workloads across multiple cloud environments.
• Develop custom tools and advocate for best practices.

Skills

Linux/UNIX Systems

Jenkins

Ansible

Terraform

Go

Python

Kubernetes

AWS

Networking Fundamentals

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Tools

Docker

Prometheus

CloudFormation

Argo CD

Job description

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

Cloud Engineer II

Our Purpose:
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 (https://www.mastercard.us/en-us/vision/who-we-are/diversity-inclusion.html) 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.

Overview:
The Cyber and Intelligence Solutions (C&I) team is responsible for product management and innovative product development to address the evolving risk & cybersecurity needs of all of Mastercard’s customer segments. The C&I team was established to safeguard all aspects of safety and security in payments, making significant strides with new products, services, and standards, positively impacting the current and future payment eco-system.

About Ekata:
Ekata, a Mastercard company, is the global standard in identity verification, providing businesses worldwide the ability to link any digital transaction to the human behind it. Our Ekata Identity Engine, the first and only of its kind, uses complex machine learning to combine features derived from billions of transactions within our proprietary network and data from our graph to deliver industry-leading risk assessment solutions.

Role:
As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will manage our production environment, ensuring a highly available and scalable platform for Ekata to serve our customers. You will support engineering teams by diagnosing production issues, providing guidance on improving application availability and performance, and developing systems, automation, and tools to facilitate fast, automated, and reliable service deployment.

Responsibilities:

1. Build, scale, and support high-availability Ubuntu Linux production and development systems in a public cloud environment.
2. Utilize tools such as Jenkins, Ansible, Argo CD, Terraform, CloudFormation, Resource Manager, and others to implement Infrastructure as Code.
3. Manage and enhance security and availability monitoring for all services, ensuring consistent implementation of security policies.
4. Deploy workloads across multiple cloud environments with proven experience in AWS, Azure, or GCP core services.
5. Understand and build Kubernetes clusters from scratch if needed.
6. Implement load balancing, service mesh, and continuously seek ways to improve uptime and availability.
7. Maintain comprehensive documentation for systems managed by the Infrastructure team.
8. Use monitoring tools, like Prometheus, to proactively identify and resolve issues.
9. Assist other teams with troubleshooting and resolving failures and performance issues; participate in on-call rotations.
10. Develop custom tools with Go, Python, Rust, or Bash, and advocate for industry best practices in coding.
11. Possess a solid understanding of networking fundamentals, including DNS, DHCP, and routing.

Candidate Profile:

• Excellent spoken and written English skills; a collaborative team player.
• BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• Proficiency with Linux/UNIX systems and related protocols/software.
• Experience with provisioning tools like Ansible, Chef, Terraform.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins.
• Programming skills in Go, Python, Bash.
• Knowledge of database systems like MySQL or PostgreSQL.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes, Mesos, or Docker Swarm.
• Experience with cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP).

Additional Information:

Mastercard is an inclusive, merit-based employer that considers all qualified applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disability, veteran status, or any characteristic protected by law. For accommodations during the application process, contact [e-mail].

Corporate Security Responsibility:

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks carry inherent risks. Every employee or contractor must:

• Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;
• Ensure confidentiality and integrity of accessed information;
• Report suspected security violations or breaches;
• Complete mandatory security training.

Pay Range: Vancouver, Canada: $88,000 - $141,000 CAD