Director of Platform Engineering, Mastercard
$152-258k
Global payments technology company
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Global payments technology company
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$152-258k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible.
Role
Who you are
- 5–8+ years of experience in DevOps, platform engineering, cloud engineering, or infrastructure automation roles
- Strong hands-on experience with Terraform, Ansible or Chef
- Solid understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and on prem infrastructure (VMware, Linux, networking fundamentals)
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins, or Azure DevOps
- Strong scripting or programming skills (Python, Go, or similar). Experience with configuration management, secrets management, and artifact repositories
- Familiarity with GitOps workflows and declarative infrastructure patterns
- Strong troubleshooting skills across infrastructure, automation, and platform layers
Desirable
- Experience developing or extending Terraform modules or custom providers
- Experience with Ansible Collections, dynamic inventories, or Ansible Tower/Ansible Automation Platform
- Experience with policy as code tools (OPA and Sentinel)
- Experience with monitoring, observability, and logging platforms
- Exposure to SRE practices and reliability engineering
What the job involves
- At Mastercard, the pace of change across technology, AI, and the nature of work requires that we constantly push the boundaries for the technologies in building and operating infrastructure and applications globally
- The Director, Platform Engineering is a critical technology and engineering leadership role within Operations Automation Program accountable for advancing our infrastructure and platform automation strategy through innovation and effective problem-solving
- This role focuses on analyzing, coding, and delivering software and platform solutions
- Operations Automation program supports Mastercard’s global infrastructure footprint by building and maintain automation platforms, automating infrastructure, services, and application delivery with efficient tools and processes
- The Director, Platform Engineering is a hands-on technical expert responsible for designing, building, and maintaining automation frameworks, platform services, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) capabilities that power large scale, hybrid infrastructure environments
- Focuses on engineering reusable automation patterns, enabling self-service infrastructure delivery, and improving reliability, consistency, and velocity across cloud and on prem platforms
- The ideal candidate brings hands on experience with infrastructure automation tools like Terraform, Ansible or Chef, strong DevOps engineering skills, and a passion for building scalable automation solutions
- Design, build, and maintain Infrastructure as Code solutions using platforms like Terraform, Ansible, Chef to automate provisioning across cloud and on prem environments
- Develop reusable modules, playbooks, and automation libraries that standardize infrastructure deployment patterns
- Engineer and enhance platform services, including CI/CD pipelines, secrets management, artifact repositories, and configuration management systems
- Implement automated testing, validation, and security scanning for IaC and platform components
- Integrate automation with cloud platforms, virtualization systems, network/security appliances, and enterprise tooling
- Implement drift detection, compliance checks, and automated remediation workflows
- Collaborate with cloud, network, security, and SRE teams to define automation standards and best practices
- Troubleshoot complex infrastructure, automation, and CI/CD issues across hybrid environments
- Contribute to documentation, architectural diagrams, and engineering design reviews
- Works within a platform engineering or DevOps organization to build automation capabilities used across the enterprise
- Collaborates closely with:
- O Cloud engineering
- O Network and security teams
- O SRE and operations
- O Application development teams
- O Architecture and governance groups
- Acts as a subject matter expert for IaC, automation patterns, and DevOps tooling
- Contributes to engineering standards, reusable patterns, and platform roadmaps
Our take
Mastercard is in the global payments business, and operates the world's fastest payments processing network. Its products and solutions have become central to everyday commerce across the world, in activities ranging from shopping and travelling to running businesses.
As the economy has become more and more digitised, Mastercard has been a leading player in helping businesses and individuals across the globe embrace card payments and digital banking. One of the world's largest companies, its revenue has seen consistent gain in the last 20 years.
The challenge for modern payments companies is that payments are always changing, as seen in the astronomical rise of contactless payments over the last decade. Mastercard's acquisition of blockchain systems, and an overall focus on leveraging its technology towards a digital economy, has placed the company in good stead to keep up to date with current trends, like cryptocurrency, in the digitised payments world.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
21% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Gym membership
- Share purchase options
- Extra holiday purchase optional
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company HQ
Purchase, Harrison, NY
Leadership
Michael Miebach
(CEO)Has served in a variety of roles at the company, including President and CPO. Currently Board Member at IBM, Accion, the World Resources Institute, the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum, and the Metropolitan Opera. They are also a Trustee of USCIB.
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