Lead Service Management Reliability Engineer (SMRE) Job Listing at Mastercard in Pune, MH (Job ID R-250550)

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

Lead Service Management Reliability Engineer (SMRE) Overview
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.
All About the Program You Support:
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• Experience with data analysis and reporting, including employing concepts of data strategy, specifically in business intelligence for supporting innovation, maturity of practice(s), and the assessment of regulatory and compliance-based risks.
• Ability to analyze Information Technology Service Management (ITSM) activities of the platform and provide a continuous feedback loop to development teams on operational gaps or resiliency concerns.
• Knowledge of incident, change, and knowledge management space, including incident communications, as well, as problem management and ITSM processes, data, and usage.
• Knowledge of Information Technology Asset Management (ITAM), practices, processes, and management.
• Knowledge of DevOps and observability techniques needed to deploy and monitor applications.
• The ability to translate operational maturity control activities into procedures and practices for the team.
• Support of Mastercard controls through a partnership with auditors, as well as Technology Risk Management (TRM), including Archer, as well as developing knowledge of payment card control frameworks such as PCI, PFMI, SOC, and SOX.
• Working knowledge or experience creating release-specific deployment criteria and applying those criteria during the software development lifecycle (SDLC) as a gate to deploying software into production.
• Supports quality engineering best practices to deliver services and solutions that meet stakeholder's needs (e.g., consumers, merchants, issuers, and governments).
• Monitor operational team objectives to ensure teams are achieving the set goals.
• Create and monitor team resources to ensure adequate documentation exists to support guild requirements.

Role Qualifications
• Overall 8-12 years of experience in Technology or a Similar Field
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.
• Experience in working across development, operations, and product teams to prioritize needs and build relationships is a must.
• Experience in production support environments and with ITIL processes.

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.
• • Retain ownership of problem tickets and coordinate remedial actions for incidents impacting applications or service.

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.

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