Our PurposeMastercard 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 SummaryLead, Platform Engineering OverviewPlatform Services manage our systems, networks, and data centers, aiming to deliver secure, scalable, and resilient infrastructure and software deployment capabilities for our global solutions.Provide administration of production, pre-production, UAT, and development database systems, assisting in designing the database tier for our global payments solution.Maintain a robust, scalable, and high-performance production database environment, collaborating with system engineers, database developers, and senior database administrators.RoleResponsible for installing, configuring, creating, patching, and administering PostgreSQL and Oracle databases.Implement proactive monitoring of all databases to predict and diagnose most problems before they impact application performance or user experience.Configure and manage Oracle installations, including RAC, upgrades, patches, and GoldenGate replication.Configure and manage PostgreSQL installations, replication, upgrades, minor patching activities, and both physical and logical PostgreSQL replication.Undertake periodic upgrades of database schemas, performing testing and verification of released database schema upgrades.Create and maintain documentation, procedures, and best practice guides for database deployment and maintenance.Collaborate with development and other support teams to participate in release and change management processes, implementing new features/functions and applying mandatory patches or upgrades.Due to the nature of the organization and environment at MPGS, the role may require non-standard work hours to minimize downtime. On-call support is a part of job responsibilities.All About YouSolid experience in troubleshooting and tuning Oracle and PostgreSQL databases with extensive experience as a Database Administrator in large organizations.Thorough understanding and significant experience of database backup and recovery, performance monitoring and tuning, data manipulation, and migration.Strong technical knowledge of database architecture, data storage, and management principles, with experience using related technologies.Experience with highly available database architectures.Significant experience in Oracle and PostgreSQL databases including replication technologies.Experience with Unix shell scripting and knowledge of automation technologies like Chef or Ansible.Bachelor's Degree or the equivalent qualification/industry experience within IT/eCommerce.Any Enterprise Database certification in Oracle or PostgreSQL technologies is a desirable qualification.Hands-on approach to crisis management, problem resolution, and root cause analysis.Strong communication skills both written and verbal coupled with strong problem-solving skills.Positive attitude with the ability to adapt and be flexible within a fast-paced environment.Corporate Security ResponsibilityAll activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks come 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;Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard's guidelines.
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