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Platform Engineer II ? Overview The Database Engineering team is looking for a Lead Database Engineer to drive our customer experience strategy forward by consistently innovating and problem-solving. The ideal candidate is passionate about the customer experience journey, highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical, and possesses an entrepreneurial mindset. Provide Redis Database support for MasterCard Application databases in On-Prem and Cloud databases such as AWS elasticache. As a Database Engineer, will play a critical role in designing, implementing, and maintaining Mastercard s database systems. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand data requirements, optimize database performance, and ensure data integrity and security along with maintaining best practices. Role Experience in configuring, patching, upgrading and/or optimizing database software and related products. Understand database security topics including database users, roles, and privileges. Intermediate skills in testing, diagnosing, and resolving database issues. Participates in the development, maintenance, testing, implementation and support of assigned database technologies and associated software products. Solid understanding with the creation and implementation of data definition language (DDL) to support development efforts. Partners with technology teams and customers to understand business needs and can communicate solutions in business terms with mentoring. Basic to intermediate performance and tuning skills with the ability to identify, respond and resolve database performance issues; communicates database performance resolution to technical teams. Successfully follow change management, problem management and incident management processes and procedures. May manage smaller project/initiatives with specialized knowledge within assigned discipline. Good written and verbal communication skills to promote Database Engineering in support of sound database structures, data governance, standards, and procedures to internal and external teams. Good documentation skills to contribute to Database Engineering processes and procedures. Ability to learn Mastercard best practices in planning, coordinating, implementing, and maintaining database solutions. Communicate, collaborate, and work effectively in a global environment. Ability to be on-call after hours and weekends. All About You The ideal candidate for this position should: 1. Have Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field. 2. Proven work experience as a Database Engineer or similar role with expertise in managing Oracle or PostgreSQL databases. 3. Strong understanding of database management systems (DBMS), especially Oracle or PostgreSQL. 4. Proficiency in working with Windows and Linux based operating system. 5. Proficiency in automation tools such as Chef and Ansible with scripting knowledge on Python and Shell. 6. Experience with database design, normalization, and optimization techniques. 7. Advanced skills in monitoring and reporting tools such as OEM, PEM, Dynatrace and Splunk. 8. Familiarity with database security best practices such as implementation of SSL/TLS, TDE (Transparent data encryption), Access management principles along with authentication mechanisms such as LDAP/AD. 9. Managing database recovery and availability principles by defining and implementing database backup and recovery principles to guarantee point in time recovery for different database technologies. 10. Defining and implementing database resiliency strategy to test and account for different failure scenarios such as network, disaster, power, etc. Corporate Security Responsibility Every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security. All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and therefore, it is expected that the successful candidate for this position 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.
