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
Lead Platform Engineer - Network Engineer
Job Posting Title - Lead Platform Engineer
Overview
Network Engineering team is looking for dynamic & experienced network professional to work on implementation, security and support of large multi-site, robust multi-vendor network environments.
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Role
• Manage and implement network projects across domains.
• Partners with design team and platforms teams, ensuring implementing network designs up to their requirements for upgrading existing corporate and Datacenter networks, as well as re-architecting network segments to facilitate new requirements, technologies and growth.
• Resolves network communications and operations problems impacting customer or backbone access and performance globally.
• Research and develop innovative solutions around unified network solutions.
• Supports assigned regional projects, which include responsibility for planning; time and cost control; resource utilization and implementation.
• Lead a major work stream or multiple smaller work streams for a large network domain initiative, often providing technical guidance and advice to project team members
*Engaging with the broader technical community to anticipate developments in innovation, often evaluating new solutions and recommending future business network requirements
All About You
Education
• Accredited recognized education in computer science, math, or engineering or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Knowledge / Experience:
10+ Years IT experience in the following areas
• Networking, including LAN/WAN - Firewalls - Security and encryption technologies
• Broad/Hands on knowledge across Leading Network Vendors such as Cisco, Palo Alto, Aruba, Arista & Checkpoint.
• Experience with Design - HLD/LLD is desirable
• Broad knowledge of Project Management methodology and best practices.
• Strong Knowledge & hands on Network technologies, BGP, DMVPN, VPN, Segment routing, ISIS, MP BGP, MPLS, SD-WAN, Spine/Leaf, ACI technologies.
• Experience on other Datacenter Network technologies desirable.
• Skills and knowledge on network automation/scripting desirable - Ansible/Pyhton.
Skills/ Abilities:
• Strong verbal and written communications skills.
• Self-starter with demonstrated listening skills.
• Serves as a mentor to lower-level employees and lead others and use good judgment.
• Limited supervision; work may be reviewed for direction and strategy.
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.