Senior Service Management Engineer

Mastercard Mastercard · Fintech · O Fallon, MO +1 · Engineering

Mastercard is seeking a Senior Reliability Engineer/Certificate Lifecycle Management Engineer to ensure platform stability and health. This role involves managing certificate renewals, supporting services before go-live, analyzing ITSM activities, and ensuring adherence to operational and security standards. The engineer will foster developer ownership, implement automation, and contribute to fault-tolerant and scalable products within a regulated fintech environment.

What you'd actually do

  1. Serve as the primary contact responsible for detection of certificate renewals across Mastercard working with all program teams to help ensure certs are properly renewed in a timely fashion before they expire.
  2. Support services before they go live through activities such as certificate renewal consulting, and providing best practices to all teams around certificate renewal.
  3. Partner with program teams to review and assess certificate renewal automation against a common Mastercard standard for automated certificates renewals and assist in the creation and tracking of plans to remediate gaps.
  4. Analyses ITSM activities of the platform and provide feedback loop to development teams on operational gaps or resiliency concerns.
  5. Performs analysis of existing tickets to identify trends and patterns

Skills

Required

  • BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding (e.g., physics or mathematics), or equivalent practical experience.
  • Systematic problem-solving approach
  • strong communication skills
  • sense of ownership and drive
  • Interest in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
  • Willingness and ability to learn and take on challenging opportunities
  • work as a member of matrix based diverse and geographically distributed project team.
  • Ability to balance doing things right with fixing things quickly.
  • Flexible and pragmatic
  • Comfortable collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure that expected system behavior is understood, and monitoring exists to detect anomalies.

Nice to have

  • cryptography and certificate lifecycle management
  • data structures
  • scripting
  • pipeline management
  • software design
  • Experience in working across development, operations, and product teams to prioritize needs and to build relationships is a must.
  • Experience in a SRE role or related field.
  • Experience using Excel, Access, Notepad++, and other desktop tools to manage and analyze large data sets.
  • Proven expertise in relational database management systems (RDBMS) such as PostgreSQL and Oracle.
  • Proficiency in SQL, PL/SQL, and PostgreSQL-specific features.
  • Strong understanding of database architecture, performance tuning, and query optimization.
  • Experience in Monitoring tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace.
  • Experience in production support environments and ITIL processes.
  • Experience with industry standard CI/CD tools like Git/Bitbucket, Jenkins, Maven, Artifactory, Groovy and Chef.
  • Experience designing and implementing an effective and efficient CI/CD flow that gets code from dev to prod with high quality and minimal manual effort is required.
  • Systematic problem-solving approach
  • strong communication skills
  • sense of ownership and drive
  • Interest in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
  • Willingness and ability to learn and take on challenging opportunities
  • work as a member of matrix based diverse and geographically distributed project team.
  • Ability to balance doing things right with f

What the JD emphasized

  • certificate lifecycle management
  • operational design
  • automation
  • capacity planning
  • monitoring
  • fault-tolerant
  • scalable products
  • triage
  • root cause analysis
  • compliance and risk mitigation
  • continuous feedback
  • Experience in working across development, operations, and product teams to prioritize needs and to build relationships is a must.
  • Experience designing and implementing an effective and efficient CI/CD flow that gets code from dev to prod with high quality and minimal manual effort is required.