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
Systems Platform Architect II
Overview
The Infrastructure Design team is responsible for helping design and support the infrastructure needed for Mastercard's applications, platforms, and systems. As a Systems Platform Architect, you'll work alongside experienced architects and engineers to ensure that infrastructure designs meet Mastercard's standards for security, scalability, and availability.
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You'll be involved early in the project lifecycle, assisting with documentation and collaborating with application teams and other stakeholders. Your main focus will be learning the infrastructure design process and contributing to the creation of Technical Architecture Documents (TADs).
This role is ideal for someone with a foundational understanding of internet technologies, web servers, and security principles, who is eager to grow their skills in infrastructure design.
Role Responsibilities
Assist in gathering and documenting infrastructure requirements from application teams and stakeholders.
Support the creation and maintenance of technical documents, diagrams, and architecture models.
Help ensure infrastructure designs are up to date and aligned with Mastercard's standards.
Participate in troubleshooting and resolving basic infrastructure issues under guidance.
Learn to evaluate new technologies and contribute to discussions on their potential use.
Collaborate with team members to support infrastructure components and deployments.
Contribute to performance tuning, capacity planning, and configuration tasks as assigned.
About You
Basic understanding of networking, operating systems, and web middleware.
Knowledge of internet infrastructure concepts such as load balancers, firewalls, and cloud technologies.
Knowledge of Database technologies.
Interest in learning about Zero Trust Architecture and micro-segmentation.
Exposure to tools like Microsoft Visio.
Eager to learn, detail-oriented, and able to follow through on assigned tasks.
Strong communication and collaboration skills.
Comfortable working in a team environment and open to feedback and mentorship.
Skills & Abilities
Willingness to learn and take initiative.
Good organizational and time management skills.
Ability to communicate clearly and work with cross-functional teams.
Enthusiastic about technology and continuous improvement.
Customer-focused mindset with a desire to support internal teams.
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.