Senior Application Engineer

JOB DESCRIPTION

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Senior Application EngineerJob Description Summary

Mastercard Processing is an issuing processor headquartered in Warsaw, Poland and operating in 32 European markets. We offer comprehensive payment solutions that empower customers to launch payment products with efficiency, scalability, and speed to market. Our flexible solution leverages powerful APIs for platform integration, focusing on digital use cases to enable instant issuance of virtual cards and more. Our services leverage state-of-the art security at the forefront and allow access to the latest technologies.

Overview

Currently we are looking for a Senior Application Administrator (Senior BizOps Engineer) to join our Protect platform team. The role of business operations is to be the production readiness steward for the platform, by managing, mitigating, or elevating awareness of the business risk of all customer interactions with Mastercard’s technology platforms. We accomplish this by linking every technology recommendation with a business value, continuously monitoring platform health indicators, and elevating awareness when one of our main objectives is at risk.

As a Protect team member you will Lead in Business Operations efforts speed to resolution, bridging the gap between business partners, developers, SLA management, and key support teams. Lead activities for Continuous Delivery / Continuous Improvement, automate existing technical processes, enhanced monitoring, and identify efficiencies for Core Services.

Implement, enhance, and enforce consistent company and department Business Ops practices

Apply technical and business knowledge to effectively support MasterCard Core applications

Share application knowledge and mentor team members.

Responsibilities

• Assist the local team to ensure a particular project is completed to enhance the platform quality.
• Ensures platform procedures are well documented.
• Learn new methodologies to improve Business Operations.
• Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services—from inception and design, through deployment, operation, and refinement.
• Analyze ITSM activities of the platform and provide feedback loop to development teams on operational gaps or resiliency concerns
• Support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, capacity planning and launch reviews.
• Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health.
• Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.
• Assurance of high availability for administered systems on the defined level
• Creation and maintenance of production procedures
• Work with a global team spread across tech hubs in multiple geographies and time zones
• We support many different stakeholders. Experience in dealing with difficult situations and making decisions with a sense of urgency is needed.
• Interest in designing, analyzing and troubleshooting, high available and large-scale distributed systems.
• We need team members with an appetite for change and pushing the boundaries of what can be done with automation. Experience in working across development, operations, and product teams to prioritize needs and to build relationships.
• Support daily operations with a hyper focus on triage and then root cause by understanding the business implications of our products.
• Shift left to be more proactive and upfront in the development process
• Proactively manage production and change activities to maximize customer experience, and increase the overall value of supported applications
• Streamlining and standardizing traditional application specific support activities

Centralizing points of interaction for both internal and external partners by communicating effectively with all key stakeholders

All About You

Nice to have :

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.