Typical duties and responsibilities:
· Basic skills in designing, testing, and implementing automation for internal processes in Server Builds, Operating System management, Patch Management, and/or Configuration Management on physical and virtual infrastructure and operating systems.
· Basic to proficient knowledge and ability to create and/or modify scripts or code to provide automation, diagnostics, or logging for operational tasks that is standardized on behalf of the department.
· Proficient collaboration skills in partnering closely with Operations as third tier support in trouble-shooting networking, operating systems, and applications to identify and correct malfunctions and other operational problems.
· Basic skills in developing processes and documentation to help increase functionality and efficiency of available infrastructure in Distributed Platforms.
· Basic to proficient knowledge in engineering the Patch management lifecycle with ability to prepare, curate, stage, test and implement enterprise patching on operating systems.
· Basic to proficient knowledge in engineering the operating system management lifecycle in preparing, curating, testing and implementing new operating system images.
· Basic to proficient collaboration skills in partnering with program teams to define requirements.
· Proficient skills in creating and maintaining documentation for procedures, configurations, and programs for the internal team.
Basic to proficient skills in working in an Agile environment to deliver solutions for internal Mastercard customers.

Required skills and qualifications:
· Basic to intermediate system Administration experience with Linux servers in physical and virtualized environments including building systems with integration to enterprise tools and components.
· Basic to intermediate experience with automation technologies like Chef, Ansible, Puppet, and/or Shell scripting
· Basic coding skills in Ansible, Chef, Bash, Python or Ruby.
· Communication and documentation skills
· Problem-solving and analytical skills

Desired skills and qualifications:
· Basic understanding of compute theory from hardware through serverless abstraction.
· Basic understanding of containerization technologies (Kubernetes, Docker, etc.)
· Ability to adapt to new technologies and changing business needs
· RedHat certification (Administrator)