Job Title:
Senior Software Engineer
Overview:
We are seeking an experienced and motivated Senior Software Engineer to join Mastercard's AWS Platform Engineering Team. This role is critical in designing, building, and maintaining a scalable, secure, and highly available cloud platform on AWS. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure optimal platform performance, cost efficiency, and alignment with best practices.
The ideal candidate is expected to have a strong understanding of AWS services, DevOps practices, and infrastructure automation and to focus on enabling application teams to deliver value rapidly and securely.
The Role
• Design, implement, and maintain a scalable multi-account AWS platform, leveraging services like AWS Organizations, EKS, EC2, S3, RDS, MSK, VPC, IAM, etc.
• Develop and manage Cloud infrastructure through IaaC.
• Manage secure connectivity using technologies like AWS PrivateLink, Transit Gateway, and Direct Connect.
• Implement and maintain secure access controls and guardrails using AWS Control Tower, Service Control Policies (SCPs), and IAM.
• Engage and improve the lifecycle of the AWS platform and services -- from development to deployment, operation, and refinement.
• Develop Scalable and Reliable Systems through Automations.
• Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortem.
• Ability to lead architecture discussions, conduct code reviews, and foster a collaborative engineering culture
All About You
• 3+ years of experience in AWS cloud engineering or similar roles.
• Strong understanding of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) principles and experience applying them in languages like Python, TypeScript, and Java.
• Fluent in AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK)
• Experience with CI/CD tools like AWS CodePipeline, Jenkins, BitBucket/GitHub, Artifactory, Sonarqube, etc.
• Strong knowledge of the best practices around Logging, Monitoring, and Alerting solutions.
• Expertise in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale systems.
• Ability to debug, optimize code, and automate routine tasks.
• Systematic problem-solving approach, with effective communication skills and a sense of drive.
• Knowledge of security best practices and frameworks.
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