Kubernetes Platform Engineer / SRE

Mastercard; Shefford; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A global technology company in the payments sector seeks a Kubernetes Platform Engineer / SRE to manage day-to-day operations of its Kubernetes platform. The role involves enhancing operational efficiency and collaborating with different business units, requiring strong experience in Kubernetes, infrastructure automation, and agile methodologies. The ideal candidate will be skilled in monitoring tools and container technologies, with a passion for improving systems and processes.

Qualifications

• Experience with Kubernetes and container technologies.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex environmental issues.
• Experience with organizing and managing multiple initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for day 2 operations of the Kubernetes platform.
• Championing best practices and collaborating with stakeholders.
• Ensuring service SLAs and efficiency targets are met.

Skills

Kubernetes

Infrastructure as code

Monitoring and reporting tools

Troubleshooting

Agile working practices

Tools

Docker

Jenkins

Ansible

Terraform

Go programming language

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

Kubernetes Platform Engineer / SRE

Who is Mastercard?

Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments sector. We power payments and provide products and services for individuals and industries all around the world. Our people, technology, data, and brand provide the capabilities that drive our success. We believe in connecting people to priceless possibilities.

As a company, we know that our success is driven by the skills, experience, integrity, and mindset of the talent we hire. By building an inclusive, world‑class culture, our employees have once‑in‑a‑career opportunities to be a part of teams that have a greater impact on our community and our world. We invite you to join our team to find out how you too can start something priceless.

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.

All About You

• 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.