Director, Platform Engineering
About The Position
The Director, Platform Engineering is a technical and engineering leadership role within Mastercard’s Operations Automation Program. The role advances infrastructure and platform automation strategy by designing, building, and maintaining automation frameworks, platform services, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) capabilities for large-scale hybrid infrastructure environments. It focuses on reusable automation patterns, self-service infrastructure delivery, and improving reliability, consistency, and velocity across cloud and on-premises platforms. The role works within a platform engineering or DevOps organization to build enterprise-wide automation capabilities. It serves as a subject matter expert in IaC, automation patterns, and DevOps tooling, and contributes to engineering standards, reusable patterns, and platform roadmaps. The position collaborates with cloud engineering, network and security teams, SRE and operations, application development teams, and architecture and governance groups.
Requirements
- 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 such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, and on-premises infrastructure, including VMware, Linux, and networking fundamentals.
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins, or Azure DevOps.
- Strong scripting or programming skills in Python, Go, or a similar language.
- 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.
Nice To Haves
- 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 such as OPA and Sentinel.
- Experience with monitoring, observability, and logging platforms.
- Exposure to SRE practices and reliability engineering.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform, Ansible, Chef, or similar platforms to automate provisioning across cloud and on-premises 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 and 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.
- Contribute to engineering standards, reusable patterns, and platform roadmaps.
Benefits
- Medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, and 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, prorated based on date of hire
- 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays
- 401(k) with a company match
- Deferred compensation for eligible roles
- Fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities
- Tuition reimbursement eligibility
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Education Level
No Education Listed
