Director - Cloud Engineering

Mastercard • O’Fallon, MO

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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.

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

• 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees