Lead a team of automation engineers to execute Mastercard's infrastructure automation strategy, focusing on design, build, and maintenance of automation frameworks and IaC capabilities across large scale environments.
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
Vice President, 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.
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.
Key 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
Required Qualifications
• 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.
Preferred Qualifications
• 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.
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:
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
Vice President, 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.
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.
Key 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
Required Qualifications
• 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.
Preferred Qualifications
• 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.
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.
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