# Lead Software Engineer

**Company**: Mastercard
**Location**: Navi Mumbai, India
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are seeking a Lead Software Engineer to help shape and evolve the cloud foundation that powers Mastercard's Global Open Banking platform.

In this role, you will be a hands-on technical leader responsible for designing and operating highly scalable, resilient, and secure cloud-native platforms.

Key responsibilities:

- Lead the design, implementation, and evolution of cloud-native infrastructure and platform services.

- Develop scalable, highly available, and resilient solutions running in AWS.

- Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform and automation frameworks.

- Drive Kubernetes platform engineering initiatives, including cluster architecture, upgrades, performance optimization, observability, and operational governance.

- Design and enhance CI/CD pipelines that enable secure and efficient software delivery.

- Improve platform reliability, scalability, security, and operational efficiency through automation and engineering best practices.

- Partner with application teams to define platform standards and accelerate adoption of cloud-native technologies.

- Lead technical design reviews and provide architectural guidance for strategic engineering initiatives.

- Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and reliability improvement efforts.

- Mentor engineers and foster a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous learning.

- Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend solutions that improve platform capabilities and developer experience.

- Contribute to engineering standards, operational runbooks, security controls, and governance processes.

Required qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.

- 6+ years of experience in software engineering, cloud engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or infrastructure engineering.

- Experience designing and operating production workloads in Amazon Web Services (AWS).

- Experience building Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform.

- Strong experience administering and troubleshooting Kubernetes environments.

- Experience developing automation using Python, Go, Bash, or similar programming languages.

- Experience designing and supporting CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.

- Strong understanding of cloud networking, DNS, load balancing, routing, and connectivity architectures.

- Experience implementing cloud security controls, identity management, and access governance.

- Experience supporting production systems and participating in operational on-call processes.

- Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

## Skills

### Required
- AWS
- Terraform
- Kubernetes
- Python
- Go
- Bash
- CloudFormation
- Route 53
- VPC
- IAM
- Lambda
- ECS
- EKS
- Docker
- Helm
- Karpenter
- Gitlab
- GitOps
- Grafana
- Prometheus
- CloudWatch
- OpenTelemetry
- Splunk
- Dynatrace
- Cloud Security
- Zero Trust Architectures
- Secrets Management
- Identity and Access Management
- Vulnerability Management
- PCI-DSS
- SOC 2

### Nice to have
- service mesh
- modern platform engineering practices
- container security
- runtime protection
- Kubernetes security controls
- observability solutions
- high-availability
- disaster recovery
- business continuity architectures
- regulated environments
- self-service developer platforms
- internal engineering tools

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