Lead Cloud Infrastructure Architect / Engineer (Azure, DevOps, Kubernetes, Terraform)
Mastercard15 hours ago
Pune, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- 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 standards, patterns, and guardrails for secure, scalable, and operable cloud solutions.
- Lead cross-team technical discussions and drive alignment on design decisions and tradeoffs.
- Enable self-service provisioning and developer platforms that improve team autonomy.
- Anticipate and mitigate systemic risks involving reliability, security, scalability, and cost.
- Guide and mentor Senior and Software Engineer II team members through design reviews, feedback, and technical coaching.
- Partner with product, security, operations, and architecture stakeholders to translate business needs into platform solutions.
Requirements
- 8–12 years of career experience in a similar field.
- Extensive experience designing, building, and operating Azure-based cloud infrastructure at scale across compute, networking, storage, identity, and platform services.
- Deep Infrastructure-as-Code and automation expertise using ARM, Bicep, Terraform, or equivalent tools.
- Strong knowledge of cloud security, networking, identity and access management, private networking, secure service boundaries, and defense-in-depth architectures.
- Experience designing resilient, highly available, fault-tolerant platforms and disaster recovery strategies.
- Demonstrated ability to lead complex initiatives end-to-end, including technical design, work decomposition, delivery sequencing, and safe production rollouts.
- Experience incorporating observability, auditing, operability, and cost efficiency into platform solutions.
- Advanced troubleshooting skills for broad, cross-system production issues.
- Strong experience with enterprise CI/CD and SDLC practices, quality gates, change management, and automation at scale.
- Clear communication skills with the ability to document architectures, establish technical direction, and drive consensus across distributed teams.
- Track record of mentoring and elevating other engineers and raising technical quality and ownership.
- Ability to evaluate cloud, DevOps, and platform engineering trends and apply them appropriately.
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About Mastercard
Mastercard builds and operates a global payments network used by banks, merchants, fintechs, and governments, offering card processing, real-time payments, tokenization, and fraud/risk services. It generates revenue from transaction processing and assessment/service fees across more than 200 countries and territories. Founded in 1966 and headquartered in Purchase, New York, Mastercard is a public company listed on the NYSE (ticker: MA).