Lead the development of AWS DevOps capabilities, enabling CI/CD for database products, managing infrastructure, and mentoring engineers.
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
Lead Platform Engineer - AWS Cloud DevOps Engineer
Overview
Mastercard's Database Platform Engineering Team is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Lead Software Engineer to spearhead the development of a robust AWS DevOps capability. This role is pivotal in enabling full lifecycle CI/CD for the database products in AWS Environment, and in launching self-service datastore offerings via the AWS Forge Marketplace.
You will work closely with platform engineers, database engineers, and architects to design, build, and maintain a scalable, secure, and highly available cloud platform. Your contributions will directly impact Mastercard's ability to deliver database products efficiently and securely across AWS and Azure environments.
Key Responsibilities• Knowledge of a multi-account AWS platform using services such as EKS, EC2, RDS, Glue, EMR, MSK, S3, IAM, VPC, Transit Gateway, and Control Tower.• Build and manage infrastructure using CloudFormation/CDK(TypeScript), with fluency in Python.• Develop CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, BitBucket/GitHub, Artifactory, and Sonarqube.• Drive platform reliability and scalability through automation, observability (Splunk, Dynatrace), and incident response.• Collaborate across teams to support deployment pipelines and troubleshoot integration issues.• Mentor junior engineers and lead architecture discussions and code reviews.• Stay current with emerging technologies and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.
Required Qualifications• 7+ years of experience in DevOps with a strong focus on AWS.• Proven expertise in infrastructure automation and cloud-native development.• Deep understanding of CI/CD practices and cloud security frameworks.• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to debug and optimize complex systems.• Strong understanding of major SQL and NoSQL databases, including Oracle, PostgreSQL,DocumentDB and related AWS RDS services.• Experience with Azure and hybrid cloud environments is a plus.
Nice to Have• AWS certifications such as AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, SysOps, Database Engineer.• Experience with PCI auditing and CIS benchmarking in cloud environments.
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
Lead Platform Engineer - AWS Cloud DevOps Engineer
Overview
Mastercard's Database Platform Engineering Team is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Lead Software Engineer to spearhead the development of a robust AWS DevOps capability. This role is pivotal in enabling full lifecycle CI/CD for the database products in AWS Environment, and in launching self-service datastore offerings via the AWS Forge Marketplace.
You will work closely with platform engineers, database engineers, and architects to design, build, and maintain a scalable, secure, and highly available cloud platform. Your contributions will directly impact Mastercard's ability to deliver database products efficiently and securely across AWS and Azure environments.
Key Responsibilities• Knowledge of a multi-account AWS platform using services such as EKS, EC2, RDS, Glue, EMR, MSK, S3, IAM, VPC, Transit Gateway, and Control Tower.• Build and manage infrastructure using CloudFormation/CDK(TypeScript), with fluency in Python.• Develop CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, BitBucket/GitHub, Artifactory, and Sonarqube.• Drive platform reliability and scalability through automation, observability (Splunk, Dynatrace), and incident response.• Collaborate across teams to support deployment pipelines and troubleshoot integration issues.• Mentor junior engineers and lead architecture discussions and code reviews.• Stay current with emerging technologies and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.
Required Qualifications• 7+ years of experience in DevOps with a strong focus on AWS.• Proven expertise in infrastructure automation and cloud-native development.• Deep understanding of CI/CD practices and cloud security frameworks.• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to debug and optimize complex systems.• Strong understanding of major SQL and NoSQL databases, including Oracle, PostgreSQL,DocumentDB and related AWS RDS services.• Experience with Azure and hybrid cloud environments is a plus.
Nice to Have• AWS certifications such as AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, SysOps, Database Engineer.• Experience with PCI auditing and CIS benchmarking in cloud environments.
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.
Top Skills
Artifactory
AWS
Azure
Bitbucket
Cdk
CloudFormation
Dynatrace
Ec2
Eks
Emr
Git
Glue
Iam
Jenkins
Msk
Python
Rds
S3
Sonarqube
Splunk
Typescript
Vpc
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