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Senior Systems Platform Engineer
MastercardO'Fallon, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 9 Jun 2025
💰 $94,000/yr
About the role
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
Senior Systems Platform EngineerThe Senior Systems Platform Engineer is responsible for the automation, build and configuration of mission critical middleware infrastructure for all web based applications and services at MasterCard. Our team of Engineers are engaged early in the project lifecycle to ensure, along with other vital teams, that the technical design, the final build and configuration of the web infrastructure meets MasterCard's requirements for speed to market, security, sizing, performance, and resiliency.• Do you enjoy building mission critical middleware infrastructure?
• Do you have a high degree of initiative and self-motivation and demonstrate the ability to drive results?
• Are you passionate about delivering quality?
Role
• Build and implementation of new middleware components such as JBoss, Tomcat, F5 (BIG-IP), Webseal/ISAM, Apache, etc.
• Collaborate with Development teams to discuss, analyze, or resolve application and usability issues and suggest to engage the Technology Engineer for any new requirements which are not defined in standard architecture design document (TAD).
• Document installation and configuration procedures to allow maintenance and repetition as well as maintaining this documentation.
• Implement complex security integration utilizing MSSL, mutual authentication, hardware certificates, software certificates, dynamic endpoints, and other security models.
• Participate in the project's environment shakedown testing and troubleshooting efforts as required.
• Responsible for creating operational support document
All About You
• Advanced knowledge of Internet architecture and project delivery
• Experience with J2EE application servers JBoss and Tomcat
• Experience with Web Server Apache
• Experience with ISAM/WebSeal is a plus
• Intermediate knowledge of load balancers and web application firewalls
• Knowledge of network and operating system principles
• Knowledge of automation using Chef and Jenkins is a plus
• Strong communication skills
• Detail oriented
• 24 x 7 on-call rotational support when needed
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Skills
People Leadership
Personal Influence
Commercial Focus
Business Acumen
Global Perspective
Future Focus
Innovation and Thought Leadership
Systems & Platform
Design Architecture
Consulting and Strategic Judgement
Enterprise Monitoring
Cloud Platforms
Application Automation
Responsibilities
• Develops, builds, and maintains platform technologies and associated software products
• Performs hardware and software implementations to optimize system/platform performance, efficiency, and capacity; may guide others on implementation and troubleshooting activities
• Supports holistic platform security posture which includes identifying risks, escalating potential concerns, and implementing both risk mitigation plans and control functions
• Drafts and reviews status reports and troubleshooting guides, carrying out project plans to ensure project milestones are met and progress is successfully communicated
• Develops configuration, process, and procedure standards to support moderate to complex operational and engineering activities
• Recommends and implements business and process improvements to facilitate optimal performance within area of expertiseMastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.com and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.<
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