Team Specific Skills:
It is not expected that any single candidate would have expertise across all these areas, but a Senior BizOps engineer will spend a bit of time throughout their career with all of these aspects of the role:
- Operational Readiness Architect:
1. Serve as the primary contact responsible for the overall application health, performance, and capacity
2. Support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, capacity planning and launch reviews.
3. Partner with the development and product team of a new application to establish the right monitoring and alerting strategy and create the framework to achieve zero downtime during deployment.
- Site Reliability Engineering:
1. Serve as the primary contact responsible for ensuring application scalability, performance, and resilience.
2. Practice sustainable incident response and blameless post-mortems while taking a holistic approach to problem solving and optimizing time to recover.
3. Automate data-driven alerts to proactively escalate issues. Work with development teams to establish SLOs and improve reliability.
- DevOps/Automation:
1. Tackle complex development, automation, and business process problems. Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services—from inception and design, through deployment, operation, and refinement.
2. Support the application CI/CD pipeline for promoting software into higher environments through validation and operational gating, and lead Mastercard in DevOps automation and best practices.
3. Increase automation and tooling to reduce toil and manual intervention
- ITSM Practices:
1. Analyses ITSM activities of the platform and provide feedback loop to development teams on operational gaps or resiliency concerns
Role Qualifications:
The ideal candidate will have experience in many of these areas (related buzzwords in bracket):
- Experienced individual with an exposure to global operations or equivalent team.
- Deliver time-saving process improvements that will be repeatable, maintainable, valuable, and fit into MasterCard’s Business Operations vision (Automation, Toil reduction, CI/CD, XLR).
- Understanding of event driven architectures (AXON, NGFT, Event Gateway).
- Have experience in Mainframe to Cloud migration projects (COBOL, JCL, SAR, Cloud)
- Should have good understanding of monitoring a logging best practices (Splunk, Dynatrace, App Logging standards).
- Well versed in ITSM terminologies (CRQs, PBIs, INCs, WOs, PLL, ICRB).
- Should have great communication skills.
- Should be a team player who would share application knowledge and mentor team members.