Director, Platform Engineering

Title

Director, Platform Engineering

Overview

The Distributed Platforms Program is looking for an highly skilled Kubernetes engineering director to drive the delivery of a new on premises Kubernetes capability (using Openshift). The Kubernetes platform will be rolled out at a significant scale across Mastercard and will be responsible for supporting tens of thousands of workloads globally.

The successful candidate should have a balance of engineering and management skills, and will be responsible for team/people management, engineering direction, and best practices. Previous experience managing on premise K8s platforms at scale, operations, security hardening, and platform automation is a must.

Role

• Working within a global team, the role will be responsible for implementing IT initiatives that support and continually improve our operational efficiency, driving automation, improving cost effectiveness, and creating operational excellence.
• Champion technology innovation and change, working with innovation stakeholders across the business, and creating a culture of collaboration.
• Requires previous experience implementing Kubernetes within a large organization, and proficiency with infrastructure/platform automation, with the ability to evangelize these across the organization.
• Primarily focused on services, ensuring we meet SLAs and efficiency targets, providing support for solutions based upon principles of high availability, agility, scale and efficiency.
• Requires working with:
  • Agile frameworks
  • Infrastructure As Code
  • Infrastructure and Network technologies
  • Orchestrating the build and deployment of containerized environments
  • Building and maintaining virtualization automation, monitoring, and reporting tools
  • Troubleshooting, resolving, and assisting in complex environmental issue resolution
  • Participation in automation initiatives driving change and efficiencies
  • Mentoring and sharing knowledge with other members of the team through retros, planning meetings and daily standups

All About You

• 4+ years of management experience.
• 4+ years experience building and running on premises Kubernetes (ideally OpenShift). CKA, CKAD, or CKS certifications are a plus.
• Solid infrastructure experience: networking, storage, and compute (GPU, VMWare & Baremetal).
• Demonstrated ability to organize, manage, plan and control several concurrent initiatives with conflicting needs.
• Track record of successful delivery in a large enterprise environment.
• Experience working with complex, low latency containerized workloads.
• Familiarity or working knowledge of public cloud patterns (AWS/EKS, Azure/AKS); container tools (Kubernetes, Docker); pipeline tools (Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform); ancillary (Artifactory, Hashicorp Vault); logging and monitoring (Loki, ELK, Prometheus, Kibana, Splunk, Dynatrace).

Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks come 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;
• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard's guidelines.