Lead Platform Engineer

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

Who is Mastercard?
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.

Overview
The EU Open Banking platform engineering team is looking for a lead platform engineer to help deploy and support our cloud strategy and platform. The ideal candidate is passionate about cloud native technologies, highly motivated, technically curious, an eloquent speaker, and possesses the ability to lead large technical projects.
In this technical leadership position, you will:

• Be responsible for implementing cloud native solutions with security, sustainability, scalability and high availability in-mind.
• Partner with SRE and Cloud Engineering teams to support, and execute on our Cloud Platform based in Kubernetes.
• Support and manage AWS networking, VPC, direct connects and transit gateways in AWS.
• Administrate kubernetes clusters and the components within.
• Help define our cloud strategy and roadmap for our platform.

 
All About You
The ideal candidate for this position should:

• Expertise in AWS, with ideally advanced knowledge in AWS networking.
• Experience managing large Kubernetes clusters using kOPS, EKS or Rancher. Ideally also have expertise in CNI solutions such as Calico.
• Advanced experience with programming in languages such as Golang, Nodejs or Python.
• Advanced experience in related field, including advanced experience in delivering secure solutions in Cloud Native environments is preferred.
• Intermediate experience with Terraform or other Infrastructure as Code tools.
• Expertise and experience working within Git flows and standard development practices and CI/CD systems.

Corporate Security Responsibility
Every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security. All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and therefore, it is expected that the successful candidate for this position 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.

NOTE: Candidates go through a thorough screening and interview process. There is no need to include all preferred skills in the job description.

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.