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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Sara Willett, a Calvin CS grad from a while ago has a job possibility. See her email and the full job description below.
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, November 06, 2019 4:29 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Joel Adams <adams@calvin.edu>; Keith Vander Linden <kvlinden@calvin.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Opening on my team at Mastercard<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Hi Keith and Joel,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I have a new college hire Software Engineering position open. I had a candidate from Grace Hopper who had accepted and she just withdrew so the req is open again. Looking for someone with a CS degree and
interested in DevOps type work. A lot of Chef development plus any skills in Jenkins/Groovy, Ruby, Python, and SQL would be great. (general java dev is fine too with an appetite to learn new languages).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The position would be a May/June 2020 start date and based in St Louis, MO.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">You can have anyone interested send me their resume directly and I’ll get them the online application link.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The job description would be similar to the one attached although responsibilities simplified for a new college hire level.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#333333">Sara (Kamper) Willett</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#333333"><br>
Director, BizOps<br>
Risk DevOps - Enable<br>
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Mastercard<br>
Remote - Colorado<br>
tel 1-636-722-7083 </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#EB001B">|</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#333333"> mobile 1-636-439-7334</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;color:#333333"> <br>
</span><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.mastercard.com_&d=DwMGaQ&c=4rZ6NPIETe-LE5i2KBR4rw&r=JhDWCBnuRQzO1O3Wnrh_-5Tq_lbjhPfN9dvv-oAoHUw&m=ta6b24kKA9gcNjmF8LCTxDGK393TGZH43TTLi5FXexY&s=SZL0osuCs_0Ks77_5qyKc8s3EQfM47KORagVhSybets&e="><span style="font-size:7.0pt;color:#EB001B;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="176" height="53" style="width:1.8333in;height:.552in" id="_x0000_i1030" src="cid:image002.png@01D594D1.278F8310" alt="/var/folders/00/t_vncqt16xj_91s_5802qttw039bfn/T/com.microsoft.Outlook/WebArchiveCopyPasteTempFiles/logo_Mastercard.png"></span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Job Description<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">The Shared Components and Security Solutions (SCSS) BizOps Enable team is looking for a DevOps Engineer who can help us solve problems, build our CI/CD pipeline and lead Mastercard in DevOps
automation and best practices. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">-- Are you a born problem solver who loves to figure out how something works?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">-- Are you a CI/CD geek who loves all things automation?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">-- Do you have a low tolerance for manual work and look to automate everything you can?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">Mastercard is seeking an engineer with experience in industry standard CI/CD tools like Git/BitBucket, Jenkins, Maven, Artifactory, and Chef. Experience designing and implementing an effective
and efficient CI/CD flow that gets code from dev to prod with high quality and minimal manual effort is required. Candidates with deeper experience in Chef are desired.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">Business Operations is leading the DevOps transformation at Mastercard through our tooling and by being an advocate for change & standards throughout the development, quality, release,
and product organizations. We need team members with an appetite for change and pushing the boundaries of what can be done with automation. Experience in working across development, operations, and product teams to prioritize needs and to build relationships
is a must.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">Responsibilities</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">- Design, implement, and enhance our deployment automation based on Chef. We need proven experience writing chef recipes/cookbooks as well as designing and implementing an overall Chef
based release and deployment process. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">- Use Jenkins to orchestrate builds as well as link to Sonar, Chef, Maven, Artifactory, etc. to build out the CI/CD pipeline.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">- Support deployments of code into multiple lower environments. Supporting current processes needed with an emphasis on automating everything as soon as possible.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">- Design and implement a Git based code management strategy that will support multiple environment deployments in parallel. Experience with automation for branch management, code promotions,
and version management is a plus.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">- Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services—from inception and design, through deployment, operation and refinement.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">- Analyze ITSM activities of the platform and provide feedback loop to development teams on operational gaps or resiliency concerns</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">- Support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, capacity planning and launch reviews.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">- Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">- Support the application CI/CD pipeline for promoting software into higher environments through validation and operational gating, and lead Mastercard in DevOps automation and best practices. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">- Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">- Take a holistic approach to problem solving, by connecting the dots during a production event thru the various technology stack that makes up the platform, to optimize mean time to recover</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">- Work with a global team spread across tech hubs in multiple geographies and time zones</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">Qualifications</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">- BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding (e.g., physics or mathematics), or equivalent practical experience.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">- We need team members with an appetite for change and pushing the boundaries of what can be done with automation. Experience in working across development, operations, and product teams
to prioritize needs and to build relationships is a must.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">- For work on our dev ops team, engineer with experience in industry standard CI/CD tools like Git/BitBucket, Jenkins, Maven, Artifactory, and Chef. Experience designing and implementing
an effective and efficient CI/CD flow that gets code from dev to prod with high quality and minimal manual effort is required. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">- Experience in one or more of the following is preferred: C, C++, Java, Python, Go, Perl or Ruby.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">- Experience with algorithms, data structures, scripting, pipeline management, and software design.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">- Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with strong communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">- Ability to help debug and optimize code and automate routine tasks.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">- We support many different stakeholders. Experience in dealing with difficult situations and making decisions with a sense of urgency is needed.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">- Interest in designing, analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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