Lead, Site Reliability Engineer (Infrastructure Operations)

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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, Site Reliability Engineer (Infrastructure Operations) Lead SRE Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering Our Purpose: Mastercard powers economies and empowers people across more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. We are committed to building an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere—by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Through secure data, trusted networks, strong partnerships, and relentless innovation, we help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses unlock their greatest potential. About the Role: Mastercard’s Program aligned Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams are dedicated to delivering a seamless experience for our customers. We achieve this by maintaining every aspect of our Programs infrastructure and technology ecosystem to the highest standards, ensuring compliance with rigorous security requirements. Within Mastercard, SRE focuses on the reliability and performance of core infrastructure, networks, and foundational services that power our applications. Our mission is to ensure these components operate with excellence, enabling applications to deliver an outstanding customer experience. In this role, you will join our Payments Network SRE team and take ownership of continuously assessing and elevating the end to end service quality of our platform. You will leverage data to drive root cause analysis and deliver strategic insights to key stakeholders on resource utilization, capacity forecasting, and performance trends—ensuring the availability, scalability, and resilience of our network. Key Responsibilities: Lead continuous assessments of the application infrastructure supporting critical Mastercard applications, focusing on health, performance, monitoring and alerting, and capacity analysis. Collaborate with Product and Development teams to forecast growth requirements and ensure scalability and resiliency. Champion observability as a core principle for infrastructure services by assessing environments and technologies to uncover gaps in monitoring and alerting. Design and implement strategies to close these gaps, ensuring all infrastructure telemetry is integrated into a unified, single-pane-of-glass view. Build custom dashboards to investigate and perform root cause analysis on complex issues. Lead regular incident reviews with internal support teams to ensure root causes are identified. When patterns of failure or compatibility i

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