Onsite Lead Virtualisation Engineer, SRE

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About the role

  • Lead Virtualisation Engineer at Mastercard focused on service quality and performance of platform virtualisation technologies. Collaborate with teams to ensure availability, scalability, and resilience across the network in Singapore.

Responsibilities

  • Lead continuous assessments of our VMWare Hypervisors & Pivitol Cloud Foundry clusters supporting critical Mastercard applications, focusing on health, performance, and capacity analysis.
  • Collaborate with Product and Development teams to forecast growth requirements and ensure scalability.
  • Lead regular incident reviews with internal support teams to ensure root causes are identified.
  • Develop and implement strategies to remediate or mitigate risks when patterns of failure or compatibility issues between software and infrastructure emerge.
  • Champion observability as a core principle for infrastructure services by assessing environments and technologies to uncover gaps in monitoring and alerting.
  • Design and implement strategies to close these gaps, ensuring all infrastructure telemetry is integrated into a unified, single-pane-of-glass view.
  • Leverage automation and AI technologies to enhance proactive issue detection, enabling self-healing capabilities, reducing Mean Time to Detect (MTTD) and Mean Time to Mitigate (MTTM).
  • Develop testing and validation plans for new environment builds, disaster recovery exercises, and post-maintenance activities to certify environment readiness before customer traffic is routed to it.
  • Champion continuous learning, development, and knowledge sharing across networking and other infrastructure disciplines to strengthen multi-disciplinary SRE team capabilities.
  • Lead training initiatives for team members and Product and Development on networking aspects of the platforms.
  • Evaluate vendor hardware, firmware, and software upgrade roadmaps, and conduct proof-of-concept (POC) testing to identify potential risks and opportunities for improvement in upcoming releases.

Requirements

  • 5-10 years of experience as platform engineer responsible for virtualization and serverless technologies in a large e-commerce, financial services, or SaaS company.
  • Advanced knowledge of virtualization software such as VMWare or HyperV.
  • Strong Knowledge of containerized and serverless technologies and practices such as VMware, Kubernetes & Tanzu.
  • Advanced knowledge of core operating system dependencies and functions, LDAP/DNS/NTP/Selinux/IPTables.
  • Intermediate knowledge of TCP/IP Local Area Network configuration and troubleshooting practices for IPv4 and IPv6 networks.
  • Experience with automation technologies such as Chef, Ansible, and Terraform.
  • Experience with container orchestration technologies such as Docker.
  • Experience with platform telemetry tools such as vROps.
  • Experience with Application Performance Monitoring tools (Dynatrace/Datadog etc..) and familiarity with OpenTelemetry framework highly regarded.
  • Excellent communication skills with a proven ability to coordinate complex troubleshooting efforts and lead root cause analysis (RCA) activities.

Benefits

  • Corporate Security Responsibility
  • 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;
  • Complete all periodic mandatory security training in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.

Job title

Lead Virtualisation Engineer, SRE

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

OnsiteSingapore

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