Lead, Platform Engineering

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, Platform Engineering

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.

The Lead Platform Engineer is a hands‑on technical leader responsible for designing, building, and maintaining automation frameworks and platform services that support large scale hybrid infrastructure environments. This role focuses on engineering reusable automation patterns using Chef, Infrastructure as Code, and Dev Ops tooling to deliver consistent, secure, and self‑service infrastructure capabilities. The ideal candidate brings strong Dev Ops engineering experience, deep knowledge of Chef (Infra, Habitat, or Automate), and a passion for building scalable automation systems, not performing manual operations.

• Design, develop, and maintain Chef cookbooks, recipes, roles, and policy files to automate configuration management across cloud and prem environments.
• Build and maintain Chef Automate or equivalent orchestration pipelines for compliance, reporting, and fleet management.
• Engineer reusable automation frameworks, including shared libraries, templates, and patterns for consistent infrastructure provisioning.
• Integrate Chef automation with CI/CD pipelines, secrets management, artifact repositories, and enterprise governance controls.
• Implement automated testing and validation for Chef code using tools such as Test Kitchen, InSpec, and Chef Spec.
• Collaborate with cloud, platform, and security teams to define and enforce configuration baselines, compliance policies, and hardened system standards.
• Support the design and implementation of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Cloud Formation, ARM/Bicep) for provisioning compute, network, and platform services.
• Troubleshoot complex automation, configuration, and infrastructure issues across hybrid environments.
• Contribute to platform engineering initiatives such as self‑service catalogs, Git Ops workflows, and automated remediation.
• Document automation patterns, architectural decisions, and operational runbooks.

• 5-8+ years of experience in Dev Ops, platform engineering, infrastructure automation, or configuration management roles.
• Strong hands‑on experience with Chef Infra, including cookbook development, policy files, Test Kitchen, and InSpec.
• Experience managing large scale configuration management environments (Chef Server, Chef Automate, or similar).
• Solid understanding of Linux systems administration, OS hardening, and configuration of lifecycle management.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and on Prem virtualization (VMware, HyperV).
• Strong scripting or programming skills (Ruby preferred for…