Director of Platform Engineering, Mastercard
Global payments technology company
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Global payments technology company
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
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
- The successful candidate should have a balance of engineering and management skills, they will be responsible for team/people management, and engineering direction / best practices. Previous experience managing on premise K8s platforms at scale, operations, security hardening, and platform automation is a must
- 4+ years of management experience
- 4+ years experience with building and running on-premises Kubernetes (ideally OpenShift). CKA, CKAD, or CKS certifications a plus
- Solid infrastructure experience. Networking, storage, and compute (GPU, VMWare & Baremetal)
- Demonstrated ability to organize, manage, plan and control several concurrent initiatives with conflicting needs
- Track record of successful delivery in a large enterprise environment
- Experience working with complex, low latency containerized workloads
- Familiarity or working knowledge of public cloud patterns (AWS/EKS, Azure/AKS); container tools (Kubernetes, Docker); pipeline tools (Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform); ancillary (Artifactory, Hashicorp Vault); logging and monitoring (Loki, ELK, Prometheus, Kibana, Splunk, Dynatrace)
What the job involves
- The Distributed Platforms Program is looking for an highly skilled Kubernetes engineering director to drive the delivery of a new on-premises Kubernetes capability (using Openshift). The Kubernetes platform will be rolled out at a significant scale across Mastercard and will be responsible for supporting tens of thousands of workloads globally
- Working within a global team, the role will be responsible for implementing IT initiatives that supports and continually improves our operational efficiency, driving automation, improving cost effectiveness, and creating operational excellence
- Will include championing technology innovation and change, working with innovation stakeholders across the business, creating a culture of collaboration
- Requires previous experience of implementing Kubernetes within a large organization, and to be proficient with infrastructure / platform automation, with the ability to evangelize these across the organization
- Is primarily focused on services, ensuring we meet SLAs and efficiency targets, providing support for solutions based upon principles of high-availability, agility, scale and efficiency
- Requires working with:
- Agile frameworks
- Infrastructure As Code
- Infrastructure and Network technologies
- Orchestrate the build and deployment of containerized environments
- Building and maintaining virtualization automation, monitoring, and reporting tools
- Troubleshooting, resolving, and assisting in complex environmental issue resolution
- Participation in automation initiatives driving change and efficiencies
- Mentoring and sharing knowledge with other members of the team through retros, planning meetings and daily standups
Application process
- Time left to apply
- End Date: July 20, 2026
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 digitized, 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 digitized payments world.
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Insights
21% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
Purchase, Harrison, NY
Leadership
Michael Miebach
(CEO)Michael has served in a variety of roles at the company, including President and CPO. They are currently a 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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