Director, Platform Engineering
About The Position
The Director, Platform Engineering is a critical technology and engineering leadership role within the Operations Automation Program, accountable for advancing our infrastructure and platform automation strategy through innovation and effective problem-solving. This role focuses on analyzing, coding, and delivering software and platform solutions. The Operations Automation program supports Mastercard’s global infrastructure footprint by building and maintaining automation platforms, automating infrastructure, services, and application delivery with efficient tools and processes. The Director, Platform Engineering is a hands-on technical expert responsible for designing, building, and maintaining automation frameworks, platform services, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) capabilities that power large scale, hybrid infrastructure environments. This role focuses on engineering reusable automation patterns, enabling self-service infrastructure delivery, and improving reliability, consistency, and velocity across cloud and on-prem platforms. The ideal candidate brings hands-on experience with infrastructure automation tools like Terraform, Ansible or Chef, strong DevOps engineering skills, and a passion for building scalable automation solutions.
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 (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 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 (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 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 scanning for IaC and platform components.
- Integrate automation with cloud platforms, virtualization systems, network/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.
Benefits
- insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance)
- flexible spending account and health savings account
- 16 weeks of new parent leave
- up to 20 days of bereavement leave
- 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time
- 25 days of vacation time
- 5 personal days
- 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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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Education Level
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