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At Mastercard, we're powering economies and empowering people, building ​ a sustainable economy where everyone prospers.

Size: 10000+ employees
Industry: Consulting, Financial Services, Technology, Fintech

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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, Network Operations

The Load Balancer Operations Team is responsible for multiple aspects of the overall health of the load balancing platform, including the Analysis, Patching, and Operational Support of all configurations at Master Card. As part of the Load Balancer Operations Team, Analysts are engaged to help troubleshoot and diagnose complex problems in multiple aspects of the Master Card Global Enterprise network. The primary responsibility of a Load Balancer Operations Analyst ensures infrastructure monitoring strategies adhere to Master Card standards, processes, availability requirements, and best practices. Requires a deep understanding of load balancer hardware, networking, security and tools used to monitor, test and evaluate those technologies. This is a "hands on" role that is responsible for leading troubleshooting sessions and driving these sessions to resolution. Collaborate with Business Operations and Service Delivery teams to ensure complex network designs adhere to monitoring and configuration best practices.

Position requires a Master's degree, or equivalent, in Electrical Engineering, Information Technology or related discipline, and good experience in the job offered, or as Platform Analyst or related position. Alternatively, we will accept a Bachelor's degree or equivalent and evidence of progressively responsible experience.

What you will need:

• Experience with TCP/IP protocol communication.
• Linux Kernel command for troubleshooting purposes and network trouble diagnostics
• Interact with the development and project teams to transform business and technical requirements into load balancer architecture design.
• Develop monitoring solutions with high level of innovation and cost effectiveness.
• Contribute to the overall strategy and manage complex issues within functional area of expertise.
• Develop and maintain automation around build and deployment of load balancer instances and configurations.
• Experience in multi-cloud environments that include public, private and hybrid clouds.
• Expert at Internet architecture and project delivery
• Expert at load balancers and web application firewalls
• Experience with AGILE/SCRUM project management methodologies
• Network Connectivity
• IPv4, IPv6, port assignment
• Familiar with version control systems like GIT or SVN
• Experience delivering agile projects utilizing end to end CI/CD pipelines
• Expert at SSL and digital certificates
• Expert with load balancing HTTP/HTTPS
• Implement enterprise Internet connectivity
• Expert at SSL, digital certificates and PKI encryption standards
• Network diagnostics, BGP, SNMP, SSH technologies
• Project management methodology
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Self Starter with demonstrated listening skills

Skills:

• Business Acumen (Advanced)
• Commercial Focus (Advanced)
• Computer and Platform (Advanced)
• Future Focus (Advanced)
• Global Perspective (Advanced)
• Infrastructure (Advanced)
• Innovation and Thought Leadership (Advanced)
• IT Business Process (Advanced)
• IT Security (Advanced)
• People Leadership (Advanced)
• Personal Influence (Advanced)
• Project Management (Advanced)
• Technical Documentation (Advanced)

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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Client-provided location(s): Dublin, Ireland

Job ID: Mastercard-22331_R-248563

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2025-08-13T01:42:41
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Perks and Benefits

Health and Wellness

• Health Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Short-Term Disability
• Long-Term Disability
• FSA
• FSA With Employer Contribution
• HSA
• HSA With Employer Contribution
• Fitness Subsidies
• On-Site Gym
• Pet Insurance
• Mental Health Benefits
• Virtual Fitness Classes
• Health Reimbursement Account

Parental Benefits

• Birth Parent or Maternity Leave
• Non-Birth Parent or Paternity Leave
• Fertility Benefits
• Adoption Assistance Program
• Family Support Resources
• On-site/Nearby Childcare
• Adoption Leave

Work Flexibility

• Flexible Work Hours
• Remote Work Opportunities
• Hybrid Work Opportunities

Office Life and Perks

• Commuter Benefits Program
• Casual Dress
• Happy Hours
• Snacks
• Company Outings
• On-Site Cafeteria
• Holiday Events
• Some Meals Provided

Vacation and Time Off

• Paid Vacation
• Paid Holidays
• Personal/Sick Days
• Leave of Absence
• Volunteer Time Off

Financial and Retirement

• 401(K) With Company Matching
• Performance Bonus
• Relocation Assistance
• Financial Counseling
• Stock Purchase Program
• 401(K)
• Company Equity

Professional Development

• Tuition Reimbursement
• Promote From Within
• Mentor Program
• Access to Online Courses
• Lunch and Learns
• Internship Program
• Work Visa Sponsorship
• Leadership Training Program
• Associate or Rotational Training Program
• Shadowing Opportunities

Diversity and Inclusion

Employee Resource Groups (ERG)

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