Lead Platform Engineer in Waterloo, Belgium

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 (https://www.mastercard.us/en-us/vision/who-we-are/diversity-inclusion.html) 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 Platform Engineer

Job Posting Title – Lead Platform Engineer

Overview

Network Engineering team is looking for dynamic & experienced network professional to work on implementation, security and support of large multi-site, robust multi-vendor network environments.

Role

•Manage and implement network projects across domains.

•Partners with design team and platforms teams, ensuring implementing network designs up to their requirements for upgrading existing corporate and Datacenter networks, as well as re-architecting network segments to facilitate new requirements, technologies and growth.

•Resolves network communications and operations problems impacting customer or backbone access and performance globally.

•Research and develop innovative solutions around unified network solutions.

•Supports assigned regional projects, which include responsibility for planning; time and cost control; resource utilization and implementation.

•Lead a major work stream or multiple smaller work streams for a large network domain initiative, often providing technical guidance and advice to project team members

*Engaging with the broader technical community to anticipate developments in innovation, often evaluating new solutions and recommending future business network requirements

All About You

Education

•Accredited recognized education in computer science, math, or engineering or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Knowledge / Experience:

10+ Years IT experience in the following areas

• Networking, including LAN/WAN – Firewalls – Security and encryption technologies

• Broad/Hands on knowledge across Leading Network Vendors such as Cisco, Palo Alto, Aruba, Arista & Checkpoint.

• Experience with Design – HLD/LLD is desirable

• Broad knowledge of Project Management methodology and best practices.

• Strong Knowledge & hands on Network technologies, BGP, DMVPN, VPN, Segment routing, ISIS, MP BGP, MPLS, SD-WAN, Spine/Leaf, ACI technologies.

• Experience on other Datacenter Network technologies desirable.

• Skills and knowledge on network automation/scripting desirable – Ansible/Pyhton.

Skills/ Abilities:

•Strong verbal and written communications skills.

•Self-starter with demonstrated listening skills.

•Serves as a mentor to lower-level employees and lead others and use good judgment.

•Limited supervision; work may be reviewed for direction and strategy.

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.