Director - Cloud Engineering

Mastercard•O'fallon, MO

About The Position

We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated Director of Cloud Engineer to join Mastercard’s Cloud Platform Engineering organization. In this role, you will design, build, and evolve Mastercard’s cloud platforms—on either AWS, Azure, or both, depending on your background. You will deliver secure, scalable, automated cloud capabilities that accelerate development across Mastercard. This role requires deep cloud platform expertise, strong engineering fundamentals, and excellent leadership skills. f AWS‑Focused Design and maintain a multi‑account AWS platform using services such as Organizations, VPC, IAM, EKS, EC2, S3, RDS, MSK, Glue, EMR, Lambda, and Route 53. Build AWS infrastructure using AWS CDK and CloudFormation. Implement secure connectivity patterns (Transit Gateway, PrivateLink, Direct Connect). Configure platform governance using AWS Control Tower, SCPs, IAM, and Landing Zones. Improve AWS platform lifecycle, operational maturity, and automation. If Azure‑Focused Implement automated provisioning of Mastercard's Azure environment using Terraform and Bicep (Azure’s native IaC language). Design, develop, and deploy software systems using Azure services (VNet, AKS, Azure Storage, Azure SQL, Event Hub, Data Factory, etc.). Lead architectural decisions and platform design patterns for Azure cloud solutions. Implement Azure governance, policies, and security best practices. Troubleshoot complex Azure infrastructure, networking, and deployment issues. Support application teams with Azure scaling, performance tuning, automation, and self‑service enablement. Shared (AWS or Azure) Lead architecture discussions, code reviews, design reviews, and cross‑team technical decisions. Champion reliability, automation, and DevOps/SRE best practices. Drive incident response, root‑cause analysis, and continuous improvement. Mentor engineers and elevate technical excellence across cloud teams. Ensure cloud best practices for logging, monitoring, and alerting. Build reusable patterns, guardrails, and self‑service capabilities to accelerate development.

Requirements

7+ years of experience in cloud engineering, platform engineering, or large‑scale distributed systems.
Deep hands‑on experience with AWS OR Azure (either expertise is acceptable).
Strong proficiency with Infrastructure‑as‑Code: AWS: CDK / CloudFormation Azure: Terraform AND/OR Bicep
Strong understanding of cloud networking (VPC/VNet, private endpoints, hybrid connectivity).
Experience with CI/CD and build/deployment tooling (Jenkins, CodePipeline, GitHub/BitBucket, Artifactory, SonarQube).
Strong programming background (Python, Java, Go) and scripting skills (Python, Bash, PowerShell).
Experience designing and troubleshooting highly available, distributed systems.
Ability to debug, optimize, automate, and drive engineering excellence.
Strong communication and leadership skills.

Nice To Haves

AWS or Azure cloud certifications (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, SysOps, etc.).
Experience with container orchestration (EKS or AKS).
Experience implementing AWS Control Tower or Azure Landing Zone equivalents.
Experience with data engineering workloads (Glue/EMR or Data Factory/Synapse).
Familiarity with Windows and Linux internals.
Advanced degree in Computer Science or related field.

Responsibilities

Design and maintain a multi‑account AWS platform using services such as Organizations, VPC, IAM, EKS, EC2, S3, RDS, MSK, Glue, EMR, Lambda, and Route 53.
Build AWS infrastructure using AWS CDK and CloudFormation.
Implement secure connectivity patterns (Transit Gateway, PrivateLink, Direct Connect).
Configure platform governance using AWS Control Tower, SCPs, IAM, and Landing Zones.
Improve AWS platform lifecycle, operational maturity, and automation.
Implement automated provisioning of Mastercard's Azure environment using Terraform and Bicep (Azure’s native IaC language).
Design, develop, and deploy software systems using Azure services (VNet, AKS, Azure Storage, Azure SQL, Event Hub, Data Factory, etc.).
Lead architectural decisions and platform design patterns for Azure cloud solutions.
Implement Azure governance, policies, and security best practices.
Troubleshoot complex Azure infrastructure, networking, and deployment issues.
Support application teams with Azure scaling, performance tuning, automation, and self‑service enablement.
Lead architecture discussions, code reviews, design reviews, and cross‑team technical decisions.
Champion reliability, automation, and DevOps/SRE best practices.
Drive incident response, root‑cause analysis, and continuous improvement.
Mentor engineers and elevate technical excellence across cloud teams.
Ensure cloud best practices for logging, monitoring, and alerting.
Build reusable patterns, guardrails, and self‑service capabilities to accelerate development.

Benefits

insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance)
flexible spending account and health savings account
paid leaves (including 16 weeks of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave)
80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time, 25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days, pro-rated based on date of hire
10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays
401k with a best-in-class company match
deferred compensation for eligible roles
fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities
eligibility for tuition reimbursement

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