Kubernetes Platform Engineer / SRE

Mastercard, Inc.; City Of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial technology leader in London is hiring engineers for the Builders Enablement Program. This role focuses on Kubernetes platform operations, ensuring efficiency and high availability. Candidates should possess strong skills in infrastructure automation, containerisation, and experience in a large enterprise. The position promotes collaboration and best practices within a global team.

Qualifications

• Experience with Kubernetes and containerised workloads.
• Track record in a large enterprise environment.
• Understanding of public cloud patterns and ancillary tools.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for day 2 operations of the Kubernetes platform.
• Championing best practices and driving operational excellence.
• Support for solutions based on high-availability and efficiency.

Skills

Kubernetes

Containerisation

Infrastructure as code

Monitoring tools

Troubleshooting

Agile working practices

Tools

Docker

Jenkins

Terraform

AWS

Azure

Job description

Overview

The Builders Enablement Program is hiring engineers with Platform Site Reliability, Kubernetes, and containerisation skills. Mastercard's Kubernetes platform is globally distributed across Mastercard's datacentres and is responsible for orchestrating tens of thousands of workloads. Skills to operate the fully automated platform, supporting systems and production workloads will be key.

Role

• Working within a global team, the candidate will be responsible for day 2 operations of the platform and its running workloads; continually improving operational efficiency, improving cost effectiveness, and creating operational excellence.
• Will include championing best practices, working with stakeholders across the business, creating a culture of collaboration.
• Requires previous experience of Kubernetes within an organization, and to be proficient with infrastructure / platform automation, with the ability to evangelize these across the organization.
• Is primarily focused on services, ensuring we meet their SLAs and efficiency targets, providing support for solutions based upon principles of high-availability, agility, scale and efficiency.

Requirements

• Infrastructure as code.
• Infrastructure and network technologies.
• Kubernetes and containerised workloads.
• Monitoring, and reporting tools.
• Troubleshooting of complex environmental issue.
• Participation in automation initiatives driving change and efficiencies.
• Sharing knowledge with other members of the team through retros, planning meetings and daily standups.
• Supporting product development teams
• Agile working practices
• Experience with building and running on-premises Kubernetes (ideally OpenShift). CKA, CKAD, or CKS certifications a plus.
• Infrastructure experience. Networking, storage, and compute (ideally VMWare).
• Demonstrated ability to organize, manage, plan and control several concurrent initiatives with conflicting needs.
• Track record of successful delivery in a large enterprise environment.
• Familiarity or working knowledge of public cloud patterns (AWS/EKS, Azure/AKS); container tools (Kubernetes, Docker); pipeline tools (Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform); ancillary (Gatekeeper, SonarQube, Hashicorp Vault); logging and monitoring (Loki, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Dynatrace); scripting (Python, Bash), Go programming language.

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.