Vice President, Platform Engineering
Mastercard
New York, United States of America
yesterday
Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
English Experience level
Senior Compensation
$ 240KJob location
Remote
New York, United States of America
Tech stack
API
Computing Platforms
Automation of Tests
Azure
Bash
Cloud Engineering
Configuration Management
Computer Security
Computer Programming
Continuous Integration
Linux
DevOps
Github
Python
Key Management
Networking Basics
Reliability Engineering
Site Reliability Engineering Practices
Ansible
Data Logging
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Gitlab
Infrastructure Automation Frameworks
Deployment Automation
Hardware Infrastructure
Terraform
Ansible Tower
Jenkins
Vulnerability Analysis
Go
VMware
Job description
- 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
- 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
- You'll 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
- 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
Requirements
- 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
- Experience in DevOps, platform engineering, cloud engineering, or infrastructure automation roles
- 12+ years senior engineering experience, including 5+ years in technical leadership roles guiding teams of 8-12 engineers and operating at enterprise scale
- Experience with configuration management, secrets management, and artifact repositories
- Experience leading team(s) of engineers in large scale engineering projects
- 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)
- Familiarity with GitOps workflows and declarative infrastructure patterns
- Solid understanding of on-prem infrastructure provisioning (VMware, Linux, F5, networking fundamentals)
- Strong hands on experience with Terraform, Chef or Ansible
- Strong troubleshooting skills across infrastructure, automation, and platform layers
- Experience developing or extending automation modules or templates
- Experience with policy as code tools (OPA, Conftest, Sentinel)
- Experience with monitoring, observability, and logging platforms
- Experience with Ansible Collections, dynamic inventories, or Ansible Tower/Ansible Automation Platform
- Exposure to SRE practices and reliability engineering
Benefits & conditions
- Gym membership
- Pension plan
- Share purchase options
- Extra holiday purchase optional
- 25 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance