Lead, Kubernetes Platform Engineer

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.

Lead, Kubernetes Platform Engineer - Mastercard's Kubernetes Platform Engineering team is seeking a highly skilled Lead Kubernetes Platform Engineer to drive the strategy, architecture, and evolution of our enterprise container platform. This role is responsible for designing, building, and operating cloud-native platform capabilities across Amazon EKS and Azure AKS while enabling secure, scalable, and resilient application delivery at global scale. As a technical leader, you will serve as a trusted advisor and subject matter expert for Kubernetes, Git Ops, platform automation, service mesh, and cloud-native engineering practices.

You will lead complex initiatives, guide architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and partner with Architecture, Security, SRE, and Product teams to accelerate adoption of modern platform capabilities across Mastercard.

• Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of enterprise Kubernetes platform capabilities across AWS and Azure.
• Define and evolve platform standards for cluster lifecycle management, networking, workload identity, security, observability, and resiliency.
• Drive the long-term technical vision and roadmap for Mastercard's multi-cloud Kubernetes ecosystem.
• Champion cloud-native design patterns and engineering best practices across the organization.

• Own the enterprise Git Ops strategy leveraging Argo CD, Application Sets, and multi-cluster fleet management.
• Design and implement reusable platform services, automation frameworks, and Infrastructure-as-Code solutions using CDK and Bicep.
• Improve developer experience through self-service platform capabilities and standardized deployment workflows.
• Lead adoption of progressive delivery practices including canary, blue/green, and traffic-managed deployments.

• Serve as a lead technical authority for Kubernetes and platform engineering initiatives.
• Lead architecture reviews, design discussions, and engineering best-practice adoption.
• Mentor engineers and provide technical guidance to help develop next-generation platform talent.
• Influence technical direction across multiple teams and partner organizations.

• Drive operational excellence through automation, monitoring, observability, and continuous improvement.
• Lead troubleshooting and resolution of complex distributed systems issues across multi-cloud environments.
• Ensure platform solutions meet reliability, compliance, security, and scalability requirements.
• Establish operational standards, runbooks, and engineering practices that improve platform health and sustainability.

• Partner with Architecture, Security, Infrastructure, and application teams to align platform capabilities with business objectives.
• Communicate technical strategy and recommendations to engineering leadership and stakeholders.
• Build consensus across teams to accelerate enterprise cloud-native transformation initiatives.

• Proven experience designing, building, and operating large-scale Kubernetes platforms in enterprise environments.
• Deep expertise with Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, Azure AKS, container orchestration, networking, and cloud-native architectures.
• Strong hands‑on experience with Argo CD, Git Ops methodologies, Application Sets, and multi-cluster management.
• Advanced knowledge of Kubernetes networking, ingress architectures, Gateway API, and traffic management.
• Expertise with Infrastructure-as-Code and automation technologies including CDK, Bicecp, Helm, and CI/CD tooling.
• Experience…