Lead Platform Engineer
Role Overview
Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in over 200 countries and territories worldwide.
Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible.
The Database & Platform Engineering team is responsible for building and operating secure, scalable, highly available, and automated database platforms that support Mastercard's mission-critical payment systems.
We are seeking a Lead Platform Engineer to drive the engineering, automation, reliability, and operational excellence of Oracle and PostgreSQL platforms across on-premises and AWS cloud environments.
This role combines deep database expertise, cloud engineering, DevOps automation, and technical leadership to deliver resilient platforms that enable Mastercard's next generation of payment solutions.
Key Skills for This Role
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Preferred Qualifications
- Experience within financial services, payments, or other high-volume transaction processing environments.
- Knowledge of Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker, and cloud-native platform technologies.
- Experience with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices and platform modernization initiatives.
- AWS, Oracle, PostgreSQL, or related cloud certifications.
- Experience driving automation, self-service platforms, and AI-assisted operational capabilities.
- Corporate Security Responsibility
- All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks come with an inherent risk to the organization. Every person working for or on behalf of Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:
- Abide by Mastercard security policies and practices.
- Protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information.
- Report security incidents, vulnerabilities, or policy violations.
- Complete all required security and compliance training.
- This position offers the opportunity to shape the future of Mastercard's database and cloud platforms while driving innovation, automation, and operational excellence at global scale.
- 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.
About Mastercard
Global payment processing and financial technology service provider.
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