Vice President, Platform Engineering

Mastercard•New York, NY

About The Position

Vice President, 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 At Mastercard, the pace of change across technology, AI, and the nature of work requires that we constantly push the boundaries for the technologies in building and operating infrastructure and applications globally. The Vice President, Platform Engineering is a critical technology and engineering leadership role within Operations Automation Program responsible for advancing our infrastructure and platform automation strategy through innovation and effective problem-solving. This role focuses designing, building, and maintaining automation frameworks, platform services, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) capabilities that power large scale, hybrid infrastructure environments. The ideal candidate brings deep experience with Terraform, Chef or Ansible, strong DevOps engineering skills, and a passion for leading innovative teams and building scalable systems. Operations Automation program supports Mastercard’s global infrastructure footprint by building and maintain automation platforms, automating infrastructure, services, and application delivery with efficient tools and processes.

Requirements

12+ years senior engineering experience, including 5+ years in technical leadership roles guiding teams of 8–12 engineers and operating at enterprise scale.
Experience leading team(s) of engineers in large scale engineering projects
Experience in DevOps, platform engineering, cloud engineering, or infrastructure automation roles.
Strong hands on experience with Terraform, Chef or Ansible.
Solid understanding of on-prem infrastructure provisioning (VMware, Linux, F5, networking fundamentals).
Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins, or Azure DevOps.
Strong scripting or programming skills (Python, Bash, 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 automation modules or templates.
Experience with Ansible Collections, dynamic inventories, or Ansible Tower/Ansible Automation Platform.
Experience with policy as code tools (OPA, Conftest, Sentinel).
Experience with monitoring, observability, and logging platforms.
Exposure to SRE practices and reliability engineering.

Responsibilities

Lead team of automation engineers driving the execution of Mastercard’s infrastructure automation strategy across cloud & on premises and provide technical leadership over multiple operating areas that impact data, network, communication and computing platform technologies to ensure optimal performance
Translate organizational vision and champions new and innovative strategic changes across Mastercard technology environments
Identifies process gaps and inefficiencies within Technology Operations, innovate and develops roadmaps solutions to address complex technical issues and improve efficiencies in existing platforms and drives that change in infrastructure
Lead and guides design teams through complex builds to solidify platform capabilities and introduce innovative concepts
Design, build, and maintain Infrastructure as as Code solutions using Terraform or Ansible 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, automated orchestration and configuration management systems.
Implement automated testing, validation, and security scanning for IaC and platform components.
Build and maintain self-service automation workflows, enabling application and infrastructure teams to consume services through APIs, catalogs, or pipelines.
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 architectural and engineering design reviews.

Benefits

Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: 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; and many more.
Mastercard benefits for interns generally include: 56 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time; jury duty leave; and on-site fitness facilities in some locations.

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