Senior Arista Network Engineer

O'Fallon, MO, United States

Our Purpose

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 (https://www.mastercard.us/en-us/vision/who-we-are/diversity-inclusion.html) 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 Arista Network Engineer

Job Overview:

•Supports the design, architecture, implementation, security and maintenance of large multi-site, multi-vendor network communication environments.

•Collaborate with design engineering & operations to implement complex network design solutions encompassing end-to-end Data Center infrastructure, firewalls, switching, & routing that scale for strategic growth.

•Support application teams by maintaining a working knowledge of the intricate inter-workings of MasterCard core applications to ensure they operate smoothly within the existing network architecture, or provide a new architecture if required.

Role:

•Support assigned projects, which include responsibility for planning; time and cost control; resource utilization and implementation.

Provide 3rd level support 24x7x365 for critical & time-sensitive incident determination & resolution covering thousands of devices in the MasterCard Data Center locations inclusive of logical connectivity, routing, application issues, as well as physical hardware failures. This requires a high degree of MasterCard specific knowledge and on-site support to reduce downtime during these emergency situations.

•Engineer & implement a large number of simple & complex change requests on a daily basis. Moreover, validate the change request is in compliance with security standards and solidify the demarcation between test and production. Manage Change requests to maintain network availability of 99.999%.

•Resolve network communications and operations problems impacting customer or backbone access and performance globally.

•Design, allocate, & implement complex physical, logical, and load balanced IP addressing schemas

•Implement, configure, & troubleshoot highly complex network connectivity solutions for internal & external customers

All About You:

•Understanding of Networking concepts, including LAN/WAN, wireless and Security technologies.

•Experience with TCP/IP protocol communications.

•Working knowledge of Cisco’s product portfolio.

•Working knowledge of Arista products and spine and leaf architecture.

•Working knowledge of Checkpoint and Palo Alto firewalls

•Strong verbal and written communications skills.

•Self starter with demonstrated listening skills.

•Ability to work effectively as a team member.

Mastercard is an inclusive equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact [email protected] and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.

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.

In line with Mastercard’s total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary based on location, experience and other qualifications for the role and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance), flexible spending account and health savings account, paid leaves (including 16 weeks new parent leave, up to 20 paid days bereavement leave), 10 annual paid sick days, 10 or more annual paid vacation days based on level, 5 personal days, 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays, 401k with a best-in-class company match, deferred compensation for eligible roles, fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities, eligibility for tuition reimbursement, gender-inclusive benefits and many more.

Pay Ranges

O'Fallon, Missouri: $94,000 - $157,000 USD

New York City, New York: $113,000 - $188,000 USD