Lead Cloud Infrastructure Architect / Engineer (Azure, DevOps, Kubernetes, Terraform)
Mastercard · Posted Oct 9
Global technology company connecting consumers, financial institutions, merchants, and businesses through secure payment processing and digital commerce solutions
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About the role
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry whose mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Cloud Infrastructure Engineers at Mastercard design, build, and operate the foundational platforms that enable product and service teams to deliver securely, reliably, and at scale, with this role focused on Azure-based infrastructure, cloud-native services, and automation powering transaction processing, analytics, developer productivity, and self-service delivery. As a Lead Cloud Infra Engineer, the role is a senior individual contributor driving the design and evolution of complex platform capabilities, setting technical direction, and partnering with engineering, security, and operations leaders.
What you will do
- Provide technical leadership for complex cloud infrastructure and platform initiatives spanning multiple teams or services
- Own the architecture, design, and implementation of critical Azure infrastructure components and platform capabilities
- Define and evolve standards, patterns, and guardrails for secure, scalable, and operable cloud solutions
- Lead cross-team technical discussions, driving alignment on design decisions and tradeoffs
- Enable and improve self-service provisioning and developer platforms that reduce friction and increase team autonomy
- Anticipate and mitigate systemic risks related to reliability, security, scalability, and cost
- Guide and mentor Senior and Software Engineer II team members through design reviews, feedback, and technical coaching
- Partner closely with product, security, operations, and architecture stakeholders to translate business needs into platform solutions
- 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.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Overall 8-12 years of career experience in a similar field
- Extensive hands-on experience designing, building, and operating Azure-based cloud infrastructure at scale, including compute, networking, storage, identity, and platform services
- Deep expertise with Infrastructure-as-Code and automation, using tools such as ARM, Bicep, Terraform, or equivalent, with a strong emphasis on modularity, reuse, and policy enforcement
- Strong command of cloud security and networking concepts, including identity and access management, private networking, secure service boundaries, and defense-in-depth architectures
- Proven experience designing resilient, highly available, and fault-tolerant platforms, with a strong understanding of failure modes and disaster recovery strategies
- Demonstrated ability to lead large or complex initiatives end-to-end, including authoring and reviewing technical designs, decomposing work, sequencing delivery, and managing safe production rollouts
- Treats operability and cost efficiency as core design principles, ensuring observability, auditing, and financial transparency are built into platform solutions
- Advanced troubleshooting skills, capable of diagnosing and resolving broad, cross-system production issues with minimal guidance
- Strong experience with enterprise CI/CD and SDLC practices, including quality gates, change management, and automation at scale
- Clear, influential communicator able to document architectures, establish technical direction, and drive consensus across distributed teams
- Consistent track record of mentoring and elevating other engineers, raising technical quality and ownership across the team
- Pragmatic and collaborative leader who balances technical excellence with delivery needs and organizational realities
- Actively evaluates industry trends in cloud, DevOps, and platform engineering and applies them thoughtfully to Mastercard’s ecosystem
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Mastercard
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry that connects consumers, financial institutions, merchants, governments, and businesses worldwide. It operates a fast and secure payment processing network that spans more than 200 countries and territories. Through innovative products and solutions in credit, debit, digital assets, and security, Mastercard makes commerce safer, simpler, and more accessible.
- Industry
- Payments
- Company size
- 10001+ employees
- Founded
- 1966
- Location
- Purchase, New York, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $115M raised
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer
Chief Business Officer
President & Chief Technology Officer
Chief People Officer
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