Service Management Reliability Engineer Job Listing at Mastercard in O'Fallon, MO (Job ID R-269901)

Description

Our Purpose

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we're helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.

Title and Summary

Service Management Reliability Engineer Who is Mastercard?
At Mastercard Technology, 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.

Technology at Mastercard
What we create today will define tomorrow. Revolutionary technologies that reshape the digital economy to be more connected and inclusive than ever before. Safer, faster, more sustainable.
And we need the best people to do it. Technologists who are energized by the challenges of a truly global network. With the talent and vision to create the critical systems and products that power global
commerce and connect people everywhere to the vital goods and services they need every day.
Working at Mastercard means being part of a unique culture. Inclusive and diverse, a rich collaboration
of ideas and perspectives. A place that celebrates your strengths, values your experiences and offers you the flexibility to shape a career across disciplines and continents. And the opportunity to work alongside experts and leaders at every level of the business, improving what exists, and inventing what's next.

About the Role
The Business Operations (Biz Ops) team is seeking a Service Management Reliability Engineer (SMRE).
The role of the Business Operations Organization is to be the production readiness steward for
Mastercard products. As a Biz Ops SMRE, we are responsible for assuring highly reliable service
functionality by creating and maintaining service management strategies, tools, and service-level
objectives to deliver reliable, zero-touch solutions for application and infrastructure products and
services. We see the big picture and help create and enforce operations standards while facilitating an
agile and learning culture.

SMREs primarily support the development of documentation, analysis, and improvement of processes
and strategies, enabling program teams to realize goals of proactive engagement in the development
lifecycle, thought leadership within service management strategies, reliability of tools and service level
objectives, and automated solutions. We help program teams adhere to regulatory, and risk compliance
to policy and are often involved in federated roles such as change, incident, problem, or service request
managers, communication leads, process leads, program managers, and/or others.

Ultimately, the role of Business Operations is to align Product and Customer-focused priorities with
Operational needs by providing continuous feedback throughout the lifecycle.

Role Qualifications
The ideal candidate will have experience in many of these areas:
• Bachelor's degree in information systems, Information Technology, Computer Science,
Engineering, or equivalent work experience.
• Have a curiosity to ask the right questions to identify the root cause, solve upstream challenges,
and act with a bias toward action with pervasive ownership over your domain, the problem
space, and the mission before you.
• SMREs daily employ critical thinking across problems they solve, the relationships they manage,
and the space in which they support.
• Risk awareness, of the risk(s) associated with the program(s) you support, across Biz Ops
processes and practices, seeking to “do no harm” yet further, taking proactive, thoughtful risks
in innovation while always ensuring alignment to Mastercard's regulatory, risk-based
requirements.
• Requires capability to integrate theory and principles with organizational practices and
precedents.
• Demonstrates an intermediate knowledge of a program or set of services, including an
understanding of the customer journey and primary business drivers for the program.
• Provides guidance to less experienced team members on defined procedures and may
supervise/coordinate work across individual contributors.
• Appetite for change and pushing the boundaries of what can be done with automation. Be
curious about new technology, infrastructure, and practices to scale our architecture and
prepare for future growth.
• Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with strong communication skills and a sense of
ownership and drive.
• Interest in working with, assessing data of, and understanding common challenges associated
with large-scale distributed systems.
• Willingness and ability to learn and take on challenging opportunities and to work as a member
of matrix matrix-based diverse and geographically distributed project team.
• Ability to balance doing the right thing whiles right with fixing things quickly. Flexible and
pragmatic, while working towards improving the long-term health of the system.
• Comfortable collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure Biz Ops processes, procedures,
and levels of maturity, in support of production resilience.

Great to Have / Preferred Knowledge and Experience
• Experience in a SRE role or related field.
• Experience in Monitoring tools such as Splunk, and Dynatrace.
• Possess a basic understanding of the five ITIL practices: Service Strategy, Service Design,
Continual Service Improvement, Service Operations, and Service Transition, and apply these
practices to enhance service quality, efficiency, and alignment with business needs.
• Understand and ensure the availability, security, capacity, and continuity requirements of an IT
team.
• Demonstrate the ability to enable cross-department collaboration to bring IT Teams and
Development Teams together through streamlined product management approaches.
• Plan and implement solutions to seamlessly deliver IT services while minimizing disruptions.
• Demonstrate working knowledge of key ITSM practices which include Incident Management,
Change Management, Problem Management, and Service Request Management.
• Work to enforce change management processes and standards while simultaneously working to
improve the process.
• Knowledge of Service Request Management processes which are facilitated through work order
tickets and are subject to accepted and documented request fulfillment process guidelines as
defined by ITIL as well as potential unique handling procedures applied by various support
groups. Further, create, implement, and govern the accepted Service Request Management
processes.
• Manage ITSM practices, IT Asset Management (ITAM), and Knowledge Management effectively
using the ticketing system.
• Streamline product management approaches to enhance communication and alignment.
• Maintain the quality of incident and problem tickets by effectively reviewing, updating, and
managing data fidelity within the tickets, including essential KPI data that reflects service
resiliency and redundancy.
• Partner with the incident process engineers and establish an ongoing dialogue around incident
process requirements and incident data fidelity. Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal 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. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.com 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 and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. The base salary offered may vary depending on multiple factors, including but not limited to location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. 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 of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave); 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time, 25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days, pro-rated based on date of hire; 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; and many more. Mastercard benefits for interns generally include: 56 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time; jury duty leave; and on-site fitness facilities in some locations.

Pay Ranges

O'Fallon, Missouri: $122,000 - $207,000 USD

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