Our Purpose

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 (https://www.mastercard.us/en-us/vision/who-we-are/diversity-inclusion.html) 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.

Title and Summary

Principal, Oracle DBA (Site Reliability Engineer)

Principal Site Reliability Engineer - Database Technologies

Our Purpose

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.

About the Role

The Mastercard Site Reliability Engineering team strives to ensure our customers have an experience that just works, every time by ensuring all aspects of our infrastructure and technology ecosystem are maintained to the highest standards and compliant with stringent security requirements.

In this role, a Principal Site Reliability Engineer for Database Technologies can expect to:

• Work with our customers to understand requirements and implement solutions to facilitate stability, scalability and visibility of highly available, mission critical database systems and applications.

• Liase with database architecture and standards owners to assess customer requirements against existing implementation patterns and assess compatible solutions against availability objectives.

• Work with capacity planning team and stakeholders to maintain detailed capacity and performance reporting and forecasts

• Formulate and drive action plans to prevent potential issues or mitigate active risks.

• Generate structured reports on health of the database ecosystem for an executive audience.

• As new technologies emerge and impact our environment, assess these technologies for the capabilities and implications to the ecosystem in order to proactively resolve any problems involved in their integration.

• Maintain business disaster recovery procedures for assigned areas of responsibility.

• Work with technical engineering teams to manage and improve processes, automating wherever possible.

All About You

• Subject matter expert level of understanding of Oracle Database 12c/19c/23c and replication products (Golden Gate, Dataguard)

• Strong understanding of NoSQL and PostgreSQL databases with hands on experience preferred.

• Experiencing assessing application and business requirements to inform infrastructure and/or deployment topology selection.

• Experience leading large cross-functional initiatives, often partnering with internal customers across technology verticals, expected to provide project direction and bring solutions to advanced technical challenges.

• Operational experience running highly available and mission critical platforms requiring 4x9s or better availability.

• Track record bringing automated solutions to bear on large scale environments with a wide range of technologies.

• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously under pressure without direct supervision

• Ability to manage multiple activities and work with a strong sense of urgency

• Ability and motivation to learn new technologies quickly and with minimal support and guidance.

• Strong people skills and the ability to understand business needs and translate them into technical solutions

• Excellent verbal and written skills, organization, project prioritization, and time management skills.

• Experience working in a global organization is desirable with occassional flexibility in working hours needed to enable collaboration with teams in other geographies.

Mastercard is an inclusive Equal Employment 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. If you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application 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.

Mastercard is an 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. 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 based on location, experience and other qualifications for the role and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. 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 new parent leave, up to 20 paid days bereavement leave), 10 annual paid sick days, 10 or more annual paid vacation days based on level, 5 personal days, 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, gender-inclusive benefits and many more.

Pay Ranges

O'Fallon, Missouri: $138,000 - $230,000 USD