Director Platform Engineering at Mastercard

Our Purpose

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.

Title and Summary

Director Platform Engineering:

ABOUT 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. At Mastercard, our industry expertise is enhanced by our commitment to being a force for good in the world. We do well by doing good. Our core values of trust, partnership, agility, and thoughtful risk taking are displayed in everything we do. Our culture of collaboration and inclusion makes our company the place where the best people choose to be.

OVERVIEW:

On the Cloud Platform team, you will be working with Mastercard’s Azure Platform Engineering team. The team is responsible for developing the best of breed Azure Platform capabilities to application development teams such that automated cloud infrastructure can be provided to software engineering and operation teams.

• The Role

• Implement solutions to manage Mastercard’s Azure infrastructure via code.

• Engage and improve the lifecycle of the Azure platform and services -- from development to deployment, operation, and refinement.

• Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.

• Design and Develop scalable platform solutions

• Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortem.

• All About You

• Experience in the fields of Computer Science or Software Engineering.

• Experience in Azure infrastructure provisioning through automation tools Terraform.

• Experience programming in at least one of the following languages: Python, Java, Go, Bash, etc.

• Experience using DevOps tools such as ADO, Jenkins, Bit Bucket, Artifactory, Sonar Qube, etc.

• Having an understanding of best practices for Logging, Monitoring, and Alerting solutions.

• Experience with software deployment and configuration automation

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or a related technical field involving programming

• Expertise in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale systems.

• Ability to debug, optimize code, and automate routine tasks.

• Systematic problem-solving approach, with effective communication skills and a sense of drive.

• Understanding of Windows/Linux operating systems.

• Implement solutions to manage Mastercard’s Azure infrastructure via code.

• Engage and improve the lifecycle of the Azure platform and services - from development to deployment, operation, and refinement.

• Design, develop, and implement software systems and applications on Azure platform.

• Establish and ensure adherence to Azure cloud best practices and standards.

• Troubleshoot issues and provide solutions to complex problems.

• Stay updated with the latest Azure updates, features, and capabilities.

• Contribute to design, architecture, process, and development discussions.

• Assist in the deployment, scaling, and performance tuning of applications on Azure.

Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:

• Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;

• Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;

• Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and

• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.