Senior Network/Data Center Engineer

Mastercard - O'Fallon, MO

Part-time - Senior

O'Fallon, MO

Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

About the position

The Senior Network/Data Center Engineer role focuses on hands-on technical work related to the installation of new systems and the decommissioning of legacy systems, while integrating Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives. This position plays a critical role in achieving sustainability goals, particularly in supporting efforts to consolidate and improve infrastructure to meet Net Zero by 2040 objectives.

Responsibilities

• Manage Data Center development, builds, and maintain Mastercard technologies.
• Develop detailed requirements for upgrading existing corporate and MasterCard Data Centers, as well as re-architecting Data Centers to facilitate new requirements, technologies, and growth.
• Support holistic sustainability initiatives, including identifying risks, escalating potential concerns, and implementing risk mitigation plans and control functions.
• Support vendor management.
• Provide strategic technical direction on highly complex Data Center projects and activities involving the selection and recommendation of design approach.
• Serve as a point of escalation, resolving problems of diverse scopes requiring in-depth technical evaluation and judgement.
• Support process improvement efforts to identify and test opportunities for automation and/or reduction in time to deployment.
• Perform security posture assessments, proactively identifying security risks and implementing risk mitigation plans and control functions.
• Manage small-sized global sustainability initiatives and contribute to system-level programs, driving process improvement and delivering results.
• Coordinate activities across dependent teams and with the Sustainable Technology program to prioritize the execution of efficiency and emissions reduction opportunities.
• Investigate multiple systems of record to identify and execute against opportunities to increase energy and carbon efficiency of infrastructure.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Math, or Engineering or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Five to eight years of overall IT experience in networking, including LAN/WAN, Firewalls, wireless, Security and encryption technologies, and Data Center technologies.
• Experience with TCP/IP protocol communications.
• Knowledge of Telecommunication circuits.
• Advanced knowledge of Project Management methodology and best practices.
• Knowledge of Network diagnostics, BGP, SNMP, VPN, SSH, MPLS technologies.
• Experience leveraging ITSM processes and best practices.
• Experience in assessing and actioning against opportunities to increase infrastructure efficiency.
• Experience in implementing sustainability best practices in infrastructure.
• Experience in implementing and improving the end-to-end decommissioning processes of physical servers.
• Experience in assessing and implementing the consolidation of infrastructure for efficiency through technology refresh cycles.

Nice-to-haves

• Formal business or management training including Project Management, Strategic Planning, and some finance experience.

Benefits

• 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