Senior Platform Engineer

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in more than 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, 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

Senior Platform Engineer

Overview

The Compute, Storage, Mainframe & HP team is looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to drive our automation and federated asset management strategy forward by consistently innovating and problem solving. The ideal candidate is passionate about automation, eliminating manual work, delivering high quality reporting visualizations, highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical, and possesses an entrepreneurial mindset.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership over multiple operating areas that impact data, network, communication and computing platform technologies to ensure optimal performance.
• Translate organizational vision and champion new and innovative strategic changes across Mastercard technology environments.
• Identify process gaps within Mastercard technology, innovate and develop roadmaps and solutions to address complex technical issues and improve efficiencies in existing platforms and drives infrastructure changes.
• Innovate Mastercard's procedures to ensure optimal safeguard processes are in place and run efficiently for hosted production systems.
• Lead and guide design teams through complex builds to solidify platform capabilities and introduce innovative concepts.
• Challenge status quo, drive cutting edge technology and innovation, and demonstrate thought leadership to operationalize and automate next generation platforms, providing technical direction to Mastercard leadership around emerging trends and integrating cutting edge technical solutions.
• Ensure controls over material risks are appropriately designed and monitored for effectiveness on an ongoing basis.

Qualifications

• Design, build, and maintain automation solutions for mission critical payment platforms using modern tooling (e.g., Ansible, Python, and other scripting).
• Develop and maintain dashboards and reporting solutions (e.g., Power BI or similar) that provide clear visibility into hardware and software inventory, health, capacity, and lifecycle status across multiple payment platforms.
• Partner with platform, infrastructure, and application teams to modernize operational workflows, reduce manual effort, and improve reliability and consistency on legacy systems.
• Establish standards and best practices for automation, monitoring, and configuration management in traditionally non cloud native environments.
• Analyze platform data to identify optimization opportunities, technical debt, and modernization candidates while ensuring security, compliance, and high availability requirements for payment processing.
• Serve as a technical leader and mentor, advocating for a modern engineering mindset and helping teams bridge legacy technologies with contemporary engineering practices.

Corporate Security Responsibility

• 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.