# Manager, Platform Engineering

**Company**: Mastercard
**Location**: O'Fallon, Missouri
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $122,000 - $207,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

Mastercard is seeking a Manager, Platform Engineering to lead a team responsible for designing, building, and operating scalable, secure, and resilient platform infrastructure.

The role combines hands-on technical leadership across Mastercard's Big Data Engineering team with people management responsibilities, enabling teams to deliver high-quality solutions aligned to enterprise priorities.

**Responsibilities:**

- Lead the design and delivery of cloud infrastructure solutions that meet scalability, resilience, security, and cost efficiency requirements

- Oversee the development and operation of container platforms and orchestration environments (e.g., Kubernetes)

- Ensure platform capabilities support evolving application performance and business needs

- Establish and mature CI/CD pipelines and engineering workflows to enable efficient, high-quality software delivery

- Drive adoption of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to ensure consistent, automated infrastructure provisioning and management

- Guide teams in building and operating distributed systems and microservices architectures

- Provide technical direction across software programming practices and frameworks

- Oversee management of operating systems and core IT infrastructure components (compute, storage, networking)

- Build and develop a high-performing, inclusive engineering team

**Requirements:**

- Experience leading high performing engineering teams with a customer-focused mindset

- Strong expertise across Big Data platforms and technologies such as Hadoop, Cloudera, etc.

- Experience managing or operating distributed systems and microservices architectures

- Proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g., Python, Java, Go)

- Strong understanding of operating systems and enterprise IT infrastructure

**Benefits:**

- Insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance)

- Flexible spending account and health savings account

- Paid leaves (including 16 weeks of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave)

- 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time, 25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days, pro-rated based on date of hire

- 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays

- 401k with a best-in-class company match

- Deferred compensation for eligible roles

- Fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities

- Eligibility for tuition reimbursement

## Skills

### Required
- Big Data platforms
- Cloud infrastructure
- Container platforms
- CI/CD pipelines
- Infrastructure as Code
- Distributed systems
- Microservices architectures
- Programming languages (Python, Java, Go)
- Operating systems
- Enterprise IT infrastructure

### Nice to have
- Experience in enterprise-scale or regulated environments
- Experience optimizing cloud cost, performance, and scalability

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