Director, Platform Engineering

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Director, Platform Engineering

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 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 that automate infrastructure, services, and application delivery with efficient tools and processes.

• Design, build, and maintain Infrastructure as Code solutions using platforms like Terraform, Ansible, and 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.

• 5–8+ years of experience in Dev Ops, 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 Git Hub Actions, Git Lab, Jenkins, or Azure Dev Ops.
• Strong scripting or programming skills (Python, Go, or similar).
• Experience with configuration management, secrets management, and artifact repositories.
• Familiarity with Git Ops workflows and declarative infrastructure patterns.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across infrastructure, automation, and platform layers.

• 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.

• Terraform (modules, work spaces, state management)
• Ansible (playbooks, roles, collections, automation controller)
• VMware, Linux, virtualization, hybrid networking
• Dev Ops & CI/CD
• Pipeline design and automation
• Python, Go, or Power Shell
• Self‑service automation
• Configuration management
• Observability and operational tooling

• Works within a platform engineering or Dev Ops organization to build automation capabilities used across the enterprise.
• Collaborates closely with:
  • Cloud engineering
  • Network and security teams
  • SRE and operations
  • Application development teams
  • Architecture and governance groups
• Acts as a subject matter expert for IaC, automation patterns, and Dev Ops tooling.
• Contributes to engineering standards, reusable patterns, and platform roadmaps.

Mastercard is a merit‑based, inclusive, equal‑opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disability or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role.

• Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices.
• Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed.
• Report any suspected…