Director, Platform Engineering

Our Purpose Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential. Title and Summary Director, Platform Engineering Who is Mastercard? Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is 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. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all. Role Summary Director, Platform Engineering At Mastercard, the pace of change across technology, AI, and the nature of work requires that we co [... source excerpt omitted ...] n experience with infrastructure automation tools like Terraform, Ansible or Chef, strong DevOps engineering skills, and a passion for building scalable automation solutions. Key Responsibilities •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 sca [... source excerpt omitted ...] ot complex infrastructure, automation, and CI/CD issues across hybrid environments. •Contribute to documentation, architectural diagrams, and engineering design reviews. Required Qualifications •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 con