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 realise 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.

Job Title:

As part of the Lead Network Engineer journey, you will be involved to engineer and deploy the latest network infrastructure including overseeing and carrying out installation, monitoring, maintenance, support, optimisation and documentation of all network hardware, software and connectivity.

Major Accountabilities:

• Manage and implement network projects across domains.
• Partners with the design team and platforms teams, ensuring implementing network designs up to their requirements for upgrading existing corporate and Datacenter networks, as well as re-architecting network segments to facilitate new requirements, technologies and growth.
• Resolves network communications and operations problems impacting customer or backbone access and performance globally.
• Research and develop innovative solutions around unified network solutions.
• Supports assigned regional projects, which include responsibility for planning; time and cost control; resource utilisation and implementation.
• Supports Vendor management. Lead a major work stream or multiple smaller work streams for a large network domain initiative, often providing technical guidance and advice to project team members
• Engaging with the broader technical community to anticipate developments in innovation, often evaluating new solutions and recommending future business network requirements

Education:

•Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Math, or Engineering or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Knowledge / Experience:

• 5+ Years IT experience in the following areas:
• Networking, including LAN/WAN - Firewalls - wireless - Security and encryption technologies
• Experience with TCP/IP protocol communications.
• Broad/Hands-on knowledge across Leading Network Vendors such as Cisco, Palo Alto, Aruba, Arista & Checkpoint.
• Broad knowledge of Project Management methodology and best practices.
• Knowledge of Network diagnostics, BGP, SNMP, VPN, SSH, MPLS, SD-WAN, ACI technologies.
• Strong command on Datacenter Network technologies
• Skills and knowledge on network automation/scripting desirable.

All About You:

As a Lead Network Engineer. Would you like to make an impact and advance your career working on complex deployments/systems as part of a global team specialising in new technologies?

• Excellent communication skills; ability to perform under pressure and detail-oriented
• You will be a self-motivated achiever who gains satisfaction from providing customer excellence
• Respond quickly to all queries/incidents, manage delivery/incidents
• Identify areas where resources fall short of needs and provide thoughtful and sustainable solutions to benefit the team
• Be skilled at explaining technical problems succinctly and clearly
• Confidence to escalate projects delivery / Incidents to senior management.

COVID-19 Considerations

We value the safety of each member of our community because we know we’re all in this together. In many locations, which may change over time, we’ve implemented a virtual hiring process and continue to interview candidates by video or phone. In addition, in some locations, only individuals who have been fully vaccinated will be permitted inside Mastercard offices until further notice.

In the US, Mastercard is a government contractor, which may legally require most Mastercard employees to be vaccinated unless a verified approved medical or religious exemption is granted. Further, we are currently making every effort towards having employees return to work in the office 2 days per week, if that makes sense for their team. Everyone must be vaccinated to enter Mastercard offices at this time. Therefore, we expect all candidates to be vaccinated or to be approved for a medical or religious accommodation prior to commencing work at Mastercard.

Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organisation 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.

Employee benefits

At Mastercard, we are committed to supporting our diverse and inclusive workforce across the globe. As part of that commitment, we offer generous benefit programs that are designed using global standards to ensure the financial, emotional, and medical safety of all our employees and their loved ones.

Live well and thrive

Well-being at Mastercard: Work and life should fit together. When you feel well, you live well – both professionally and personally. Get access to best-in-class well-being resources (mental, physical, financial, and social) to help you be your best, regardless of where you are in your journey.

Put family first

New Parent Leave: Our global New Parent Leave benefit supports adoption and childbirth for all employees who become parents by adoption or childbirth in all geographies – regardless of gender, sexual orientation, or caregiver status. It provides a global standard of 16 weeks of 100% paid leave and maintains 100% of bonus eligibility during this time.

Connect and celebrate

Business Resource Groups: Connect and build meaningful relationships through our employee-driven program that enhances cultural awareness, develops leadership skills, and gives you the opportunity to network with colleagues across business units at all levels.

Employee Recognition: Cheer each other via Recognising You, our peer-to-peer recognition and celebration program that aligns with the Mastercard Way – Focus on our Customer, Own It, Sense of Urgency, Simplify, Thoughtful Risk Taking and Being Inclusive.

Secure your future

Investing in You: To accelerate retirement readiness, our employees can take advantage of our generous matching contribution of 10% of base pay each year by participating in their local retirement program. The company matching contributions are 100% vested from day one!

Dependent Scholarship: Help build the future with an academic scholarship for your child. We grant up to twenty $5,000 scholarships per year to dependent children age 25 and younger.

Employee Assistance Fund: Get help and support when you need it. We provide assistance for employees, or eligible dependents of deceased employees, who are facing financial hardship due to a catastrophic event, and for retirees or former employees dealing with a serious illness or injury.

Additional Requirements

• 5+ Years IT experience
• Network diagnostics
• Firewalls
• TCP/IP protocol communications