Senior Reliability Engineer

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 Reliability Engineer

Overview

The Service Management Reliability Engineering (SMRE) team plays a critical role in ensuring the reliability, compliance, and operational excellence of Mastercard’s Real Time Payments (RTP) platforms. The team operates at the intersection of product, engineering, operations, risk, and audit, acting as a trusted operational partner across highly regulated environments.

This role is essential to ensuring that RTP services transition safely from delivery into run, operate within defined service levels, and maintain a strong, audit‑defensible posture throughout their lifecycle. SMREs help ensure platforms meet Mastercard standards for reliability, availability, safety, and soundness while supporting continued growth and innovation across RTP markets.

Role

SMREs are custodians of the core operational processes that underpin service delivery and compliance for the RTP International programme. The role ensures that platforms are operated safely, changes are deployed with discipline, risks are actively managed, and operational artefacts remain accurate, current, and audit‑ready.

Key Responsibilities

Operational Reliability

Support the day‑to‑day operational reliability of RTP International platforms.

Ensure services are monitored effectively and operate within agreed SLOs and SLAs.

Partner with run and engineering teams to maintain service stability and resilience.

Change, Release & Operational Readiness

Support change and release governance, including Change Requests (CRQs).

Perform, evidence, and review production readiness and go‑live checks (PLL).

Ensure operational readiness is demonstrated prior to deployment.

Support clean handover from delivery into run.

Audit, Risk & Compliance

Own and maintain the RTP International audit posture across frameworks including:

BOMM

PCI‑DSS

ISO 27001

ISAE 3000 / SOC 2

Lead evidence gathering, validation, and auditor engagement.

Track remediation actions and ensure timely and effective closure.

Maintain accurate risk, issue, and control artefacts in systems such as Archer, TIMS, and Remedy.

Documentation & Operational Artefacts

Govern and review operational artefacts, including runbooks, procedures, and control documentation.

Ensure documentation is practical, current, and audit‑defensible.

Automation, Toil & Efficiency

Identify repetitive or manual operational activities (“toil”).

Support initiatives to reduce toil through automation or process improvement.

Contribute to improving operational efficiency and service maturity over time.

Stakeholder Collaboration

Work closely with Engineering, SRE / Run teams, Product, Programme, Risk, Security, and TRM partners.

Communicate clearly and professionally with stakeholders across regions.

Act as a reliable operational interface between delivery and run functions.

All About You

Technical & Operational Experience

Strong understanding of ITSM processes (incident, change, problem).

Experience supporting production operations and service reliability.

Comfortable working with operational tooling, dashboards, and ticketing systems.

Experience operating services in regulated and audited environments.

Professional Skills

High attention to detail, particularly for evidence and documentation.

Clear, concise written and verbal communication.

Confidence to ask questions, challenge unclear processes, and drive improvements.

Ability to work effectively across distributed, multi‑regional teams.

Mindset & Attributes

Proactive, evidence‑driven, and outcome‑focused.

Calm under pressure, particularly during incidents or audit activity.

Willingness to learn complex systems, platforms, and regulatory requirements.

Strong appreciation that operational excellence is as critical as feature delivery.

Education & Experience

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

Experience working in large‑scale, highly available, or regulated production environments.

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, and
• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.