Senior Platform Engineer

Mastercard · Pune · Posted 2026-07-08

Tech stack: Linux, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis

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About the role

In managing Mastercard’s Commercial and New Payment Flow databases the Senior Platform Engineer must be highly experienced in database backup and recovery, performance tuning, and high availability configuration. Database technologies include (but are not limited to): Oracle, PostgreSQL, NoSQL [added advantage].
Responsibilities:
- The ideal candidate should have experience in more than one database technology.
- Be forward thinking infrastructure automation and scripting skills.
- Leads in managing client’s expectations and communicates proactively.
- Requires little supervision while identifying tasks associated with responsibilities
- Collaborates with other DBAs, participates in internal projects and leads some initiatives.
- Provide DBA suggestions and input on direction for database domain strategy.
- Guides and provides direction for use of best practices and application database solutions to Mastercard’s development teams.
Qualifications:
- The ideal candidate for this position should:
- Have strong experience in working with RDBMS and NoSQL database technologies as a DBA.
- Have strong experience in configuring, patching, upgrading, and optimizing database software and related products.
- Have strong experience in security, backup/recovery, architecture, networking, and administration for database disciplines.
- Participate and/or assist the team in the development, maintenance, testing, implementation, and support of assigned database technologies and associated software products.
- Proactively monitor and troubleshoot database issues escalated by the business team and internal monitoring in a timely manner with strong skills to drive to root cause and remediation of issues.
- Understand database security topics including database users, roles, and privileges.
- Have understanding of cloud concepts including database administration activities in cloud solutions a plus.
- Partner with technology teams and customers to understand business needs and can communicate solutions in business terms with mentoring.
- Have intermediate to strong performance and tuning skills with the ability to identify, respond and resolve database performance issues; communicates database performance resolution to technical teams.
- Successfully follow change management, problem management and incident management processes and procedures.
- Have strong written and verbal communication skills to promote Database Engineering in support of sound database structures, data governance, standards, and procedures to internal and external teams.
- Have strong documentation skills to contribute to Database Engineering processes and procedures.
- Recommend and implement business and process improvements to facilitate optimal performance and/or efficiencies.
- Have ability to proactively plan and coordinate larger technical efforts within the
- database team and with external technology teams.
- Have ability to contribute to Mastercard best practices in planning, coordinating, implementing, and maintaining database solutions.
- Have ability to train and mentor junior members of the team.
- Communicate, collaborate, and work effectively in a global environment.
- Have abiility to be on-call after hours and weekends.
- Education (preferred):
- Bachelor’s Degree in Information systems or equivalent experience.
- **Desirable Knowledge/Experience**
- Experience in database replication technologies e.g. Oracle Dataguard (with FSFO), Oracle GoldenGate, Postgres Distributed a plus.
- Experience working on cloud-hosted services a plus.
- Database Technologies Include (not limited to): Oracle, Postgres, MongoDB, Redis. The ideal candidate should have experience in both RDBMS and NoSQL database technologies
- Preferred Skills:
- Exposure to Oracle databases
- Exposure to Linux operating systems
- Exposure to Oracle plsql programming

Qualifications

- The ideal candidate for this position should:
- Have strong experience in working with RDBMS and NoSQL database technologies as a DBA.
- Have strong experience in configuring, patching, upgrading, and optimizing database software and related products.
- Have strong experience in security, backup/recovery, architecture, networking, and administration for database disciplines.
- Participate and/or assist the team in the development, maintenance, testing, implementation, and support of assigned database technologies and associated software products.
- Proactively monitor and troubleshoot database issues escalated by the business team and internal monitoring in a timely manner with strong skills to drive to root cause and remediation of issues.
- Understand database security topics including database users, roles, and privileges.
- Have understanding of cloud concepts including database administration activities in cloud solutions a plus.
- Partner with technology teams and customers to understand business needs and can communicate solutions in business terms with mentoring.
- Have intermediate to strong performance and tuning skills with the ability to identify, respond and resolve database performance issues; communicates database performance resolution to technical teams.
- Successfully follow change management, problem management and incident management processes and procedures.
- Have strong written and verbal communication skills to promote Database Engineering in support of sound database structures, data governance, standards, and procedures to internal and external teams.
- Have strong documentation skills to contribute to Database Engineering processes and procedures.
- Recommend and implement business and process improvements to facilitate optimal performance and/or efficiencies.
- Have ability to proactively plan and coordinate larger technical efforts within the database team and with external technology teams.
- Have ability to contribute to Mastercard best practices in planning, coordinating, implementing, and maintaining database solutions.
- Have ability to train and mentor junior members of the team.
- Communicate, collaborate, and work effectively in a global environment.
- Have abiility to be on-call after hours and weekends.
- Education (preferred): Bachelor’s Degree in Information systems or equivalent experience.
- Desirable Knowledge/Experience
- Experience in database replication technologies e.g. Oracle Dataguard (with FSFO), Oracle GoldenGate, Postgres Distributed a plus.
- Experience working on cloud-hosted services a plus.
- Database Technologies Include (not limited to): Oracle, Postgres, MongoDB, Redis.
- The ideal candidate should have experience in both RDBMS and NoSQL database technologies
- Exposure to Oracle databases
- Exposure to Linux operating systems
- Exposure to Oracle plsql programming

Responsibilities

- The ideal candidate should have experience in more than one database technology.
- Be forward thinking infrastructure automation and scripting skills.
- Leads in managing client’s expectations and communicates proactively.
- Requires little supervision while identifying tasks associated with responsibilities
- Collaborates with other DBAs, participates in internal projects and leads some initiatives.
- Provide DBA suggestions and input on direction for database domain strategy.
- Guides and provides direction for use of best practices and application database solutions to Mastercard’s development teams.

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