Our Purpose

We work to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments and businesses realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.

Title and Summary

Lead Software Delivery Engineer

Overview

SessionM, a Mastercard company, is looking for a Lead Software Delivery Engineer to provide technical leadership for our build pipeline creation and orchestration, source code repository service, security scanner tooling, and other aspects of CI/CD. The selected candidate will be actively involved in researching new technologies/tools that can be incorporated to improve the current system. The ideal candidate is highly motivated, intellectually curious, and possesses an analytical mindset and good communication skills.

Role

In this position, you will
• Be the technical lead of the US part of the team
• Architect and design new functionality
• Develop new and maintain existing CI/CD processes
• Promote code-reviews, code scanning, and other standard development practices
• Identify opportunities and build roadmaps to enhance our team’s services
• Automate and simplify all aspects of software delivery, actively evangelizing the need to automate and simplify where needed
• Provide guidance on new technologies to influence the direction of automation
• Be a contact point for CI/CD incidents happening during US office hours
• Communicate and work together with the European part of the team

All About You

Essential skills:
• Linux and scripting (Python or Shell)
• GitLab administration (or GitHub, Bitbucket)
• CI/CD process understanding and automation experience
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code - such as Terraform, Cloud Formation, or AWS CDK
• AWS experience - we are heavily into EC2, ECS, S3, Lambdas, etc.
• Docker/containers
• Excellent written and oral communication skills

Desirable/additional knowledge:
• Black Duck
• Checkmarx
• Container security scanning
• Kubernetes (preferably AWS EKS)

In the US, Mastercard is an inclusive Equal Employment 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. If you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process, please contact [email protected] 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.

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.

In line with Mastercard’s total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary based on location, experience and other qualifications for the role and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance), flexible spending account and health savings account, paid leaves (including 16 weeks new parent leave, up to 20 paid days bereavement leave), 10 annual paid sick days, 10 or more annual paid vacation days based on level, 5 personal days, 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays, 401k with a best-in-class company match, deferred compensation for eligible roles, fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities, eligibility for tuition reimbursement, gender-inclusive benefits and many more.