Lead, Platform Engineering
Mastercard9 days ago
O'Fallon, MO, USASenior / Staff+
H1B sponsor
Responsibilities
- Design and maintain Chef cookbooks, recipes, roles, and policy files for cloud and on-premises configuration management.
- Build Chef Automate or equivalent orchestration pipelines for compliance, reporting, and fleet management.
- Develop reusable automation frameworks, shared libraries, templates, and infrastructure provisioning patterns.
- Integrate Chef automation with CI/CD pipelines, secrets management, artifact repositories, and governance controls.
- Implement automated testing and validation using Test Kitchen, InSpec, ChefSpec, and related tooling.
- Define configuration baselines, compliance policies, hardened system standards, and automated remediation with cloud, platform, and security teams.
- Support Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, and ARM/Bicep for compute, network, and platform provisioning.
- Troubleshoot complex automation, configuration, and infrastructure issues across hybrid environments.
- Contribute to self-service catalogs, GitOps workflows, documentation, architectural decisions, and operational runbooks.
Requirements
- 5–8+ years of experience in DevOps, platform engineering, infrastructure automation, or configuration management.
- Strong hands-on Chef Infra experience, including cookbook development, policy files, Test Kitchen, and InSpec.
- Experience managing large-scale Chef Server, Chef Automate, or comparable configuration-management environments.
- Solid Linux systems administration, OS hardening, and lifecycle-management configuration experience.
- Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP and on-premises virtualization using VMware or Hyper-V.
- Strong scripting or programming skills, with Ruby preferred and experience with Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
- Experience with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins, or Azure DevOps.
- Strong understanding of Git workflows, branching strategies, and code review practices.
- Preferred qualifications include Chef Habitat or Chef Automate, Terraform or other IaC tools, OPA, Conftest, Sentinel, security hardening, compliance frameworks, CIS benchmarks, Kubernetes, Helm, Prometheus, Datadog, Splunk, ELK, network automation, and infrastructure APIs.
Benefits
- Full-time employee benefits generally include medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance; flexible spending and health savings accounts; paid leave; 401(k) matching; deferred compensation for eligible roles; fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities; tuition reimbursement; and paid holidays.
- Benefits include 16 weeks of new parent leave, up to 20 days of bereavement leave, 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time, 25 vacation days, 5 personal days, and 10 annual U.S. observed holidays, prorated based on the date of hire.
- Mastercard intends to fill the position by November 2, 2026, or as soon as possible if that date has passed.
- The posting states that the role is assumed to be performed in the United States for compensation purposes.
Tech Stack
AWSAzureBashChefDatadogGitGitHub ActionsGoogle Cloud PlatformHelmJenkinsKubernetesLinuxPowerShellPrometheusPythonRubySplunkTerraform
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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).