Senior Database Engineer (Postgres and AWS)

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 Senior Database Engineer (Postgres and AWS) Who is Mastercard? Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is 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. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all. Overview The Database Engineering team is looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to drive our customer experience strategy forward by consistently innovating and problem-solving. The ideal candidate is passionate about the customer experience journey, highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical, and possesses an entrepreneurial mindset. About the job Title And Summary The Senior Database Engineer is responsible for both database build and support functions. This individual will lead large initiatives, be responsible for gathering requirements through feature requests from our development partners, perform analysis and implementation of database designs, provide consulting, and drive the best practice, governance, and standards of Database Engineering in Mastercard. This role involves fostering strong partnerships with internal and external stakeholders and managing both the operational and strategic initiatives of the team. The Senior Database Engineer champions the Mastercard Way. All About You • 5 - 9 Years of Overall Career experience handling Postgres Database (On-Prem and Cloud) • Knowledge of Cassandra, Redis and Oracle is added advantage. • Ability to work on database setup of public cloud (like AWS and Azure). • Responsible for installation, configuration, applying patching, DB upgrades, object creations and administration of Postgres databases. • Implement proactive monitoring and observability dashboards of all databases to predict and diagnose the majority of problems before they impact application performance or user experience. Create dashboard and configure alerts on Splunk, Dynatrace, and PEM. • Configure and manage Postgres Installation, replication, upgrades, applying minor patching activities. • Good problem solving and troubleshooting skills. • Manage user access and security: Set up user accounts and ensure database security protocols are followed. • Backup and recovery: Implement backup and recovery plans to protect data against loss. • Undertake periodic upgrades of database schema and perform testing and verification of released database schema upgrades. • Support the installation and configuration of Databases for high availability. • Work on maintaining database security (roles, privileges, authentication) • Work with auditors (ISA and QSA) to support internal and external audits (like PCI). • Create and maintain documentation, procedures and best practice guides for database deployment and maintenance • Uses strong writing and verbal communication skills to build awareness and to proactively promote DBA’s position in support of sound database structures, data governance and other Corporate strategies. • Displays excellent collaborative skills with cross-fu ... (truncated, view full listing at source)