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　　We work 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. We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team - one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.

　　Title and Summary

　　Senior Systems Platform Engineer

　　Overview:

　　The Storage Services Team are responsible for all Storage, SAN and Backup deployments within Vocalink Mastercard's Production, Test, Core and Development environments, as well as ongoing maintenance, troubleshooting and administration of the same.

　　The Storage Services Team resource all phases of delivery, from Technical Architecture, through Build, Run and ongoing support.

　　The role of 'Senior Storage Platform Engineer" requires the individual to work on design and implementation of internal and external environments. Providing end to end product, architecture, and technical expertise to the VocaLink project teams.

　　The individual will also need to deliver an outstanding level of Storage & Backup Administration Support across all of Vocalink's systems, ensuring that Vocalink systems meet or exceed their SLA's.

　　Taking direction from the Storage Team Manager and Architect teams, the candidate must be able to work independently and be pro-active with their workload.

　　Role:

　　This role will require close interaction with all other technical areas such as Architecture and Design, Networks, Unix Platform Administration, Database Systems Administration, Wintel, Middleware Support Infrastructure, Development Teams, Acceptance Testing and Service/Operations Management.

　　Typically, the role will require the post holder to perform all of the following:-

　　Perform advanced Storage & Backup troubleshooting (and performance tuning) coordinated with other areas/parties if required.

　　Implement Storage & Backup Hardware and 3rd Party Software installs and upgrades.

　　Provide post implementation support of delivered products operating as the last internal escalation point (In Office / Out of Office).

　　Document and manage change to existing hardware/software.

　　Contribute to the development and continuous review of appropriate practices, standards and guidelines.

　　To stay abreast of relevant developments in technology, processes and markets.

　　Provide Strategy guidance for the Storage and Backup discipline

　　Understand stakeholder concerns in order to develop, define and document solutions which address those concerns.

　　Perform on-call duties as per the required rota.

　　To communicate solutions to Stakeholders ensuring that their concerns are fully addressed, especially with regards to security, performance and availability

　　To undertake project work.

　　To deliver to demanding timescales

　　To validate that proposed architecture is fit for purpose

　　To support Product Management in developing product roadmaps.

　　To advise Procurement and Commercial Finance regarding technical issues relating to contracts.

　　To provide technical expertise to all other Infrastructure and Network teams.

　　To Mentor and technically guide less experienced members of the team

　　To participate in team development activities.

　　The above list of responsibilities provides an indicative overview of the role. Actual responsibilities may vary over time depending on the business demands.

　　All about you:

　　Thorough knowledge and understanding of network, operating system principles, Storage architecture, principles, and best practise.

　　Must be high-energy, proactive, detail-oriented, and able to function under pressure in an team environment where collaboration is key.

　　Must have a high degree of initiative and self-motivation and demonstrate the ability to drive results.

　　Strong communication skills both verbal and written and strong relationship and organizational skills with the ability to work and mentor with BAU, Project and escalations.

　　Willingness and ability to learn and mentor others

　　The ideal candidate will have experience working in a global company with a passion for technology. This position will be a "jack of all trades" type position focused on hardware, Storage, Network, and backup infrastructure

　　A strong knowledge and experience with physical Datacenters such as power, racks, cabling, storage, and\or security.

　　Preferred experience in a Storage administrator type role.

　　EMC Symmetrix VMAX3

　　EMC Unity (all models)

　　EMC ECS

　　EMC Vplex

　　EMC Vplex

　　EMC Unity

　　EMC Powerscale

　　EMC Powerstore

　　EMC DataDomain

　　EMC Solutions Enabler, SRDF & Unisphere for VMAX

　　Knowledge of multipathing technologies: EMC, PowerPath, Veritas DMP, Windows/Solaris/AIX/LINUX Native multipathing

　　HP Nimble

　　Brocade Switches and Directors FOS 7+

　　Veritas Netbackup Java Console Version 9+

　　Experience with VMWare, Wintel, Solaris in a SAN environment

　　Pure Storage Arrays

　　Veritas Netbackup appliances Flex (5340,5350, 5360)

　　Experience with NPIV

　　Experience with AWS S3 in an ECS environment

　　Corporate Security Responsibility

　　All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes 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, andComplete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard's guidelines.