# Lead Platform Engineer

**Company**: Mastercard
**Location**: Pune, India
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Mastercard is seeking a Lead Platform Engineer to design, build, and maintain automation frameworks and platform services that support large-scale hybrid infrastructure environments.

The ideal candidate brings strong DevOps engineering experience, deep knowledge of Chef (Infra, Habitat, or Automate), and a passion for building scalable automation systems.

Responsibilities:

- Design, develop, and maintain Chef cookbooks, recipes, roles, and policy files to automate configuration management across cloud and prem environments.

- Build and maintain Chef Automate or equivalent orchestration pipelines for compliance, reporting, and fleet management.

- Engineer reusable automation frameworks, including shared libraries, templates, and patterns for consistent infrastructure provisioning.

- Integrate Chef automation with CI/CD pipelines, secrets management, artifact repositories, and enterprise governance controls.

- Implement automated testing and validation for Chef code using tools such as Test Kitchen, InSpec, and ChefSpec.

- Collaborate with cloud, platform, and security teams to define and enforce configuration baselines, compliance policies, and hardened system standards.

- Support the design and implementation of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM/Bicep) for provisioning compute, network, and platform services.

- Troubleshoot complex automation, configuration, and infrastructure issues across hybrid environments.

- Contribute to platform engineering initiatives such as self-service catalogs, GitOps workflows, and automated remediation.

- Document automation patterns, architectural decisions, and operational runbooks.

Requirements:

- 5–8+ years of experience in DevOps, platform engineering, infrastructure automation, or configuration management roles.

- Strong hands-on experience with Chef Infra, including cookbook development, policy files, Test Kitchen, and InSpec.

- Experience managing large-scale configuration management environments (Chef Server, Chef Automate, or similar).

- Solid understanding of Linux systems administration, OS hardening, and configuration of lifecycle management.

- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and on-prem virtualization (VMware, Hyper-V).

- Strong scripting or programming skills (Ruby preferred for Chef, plus Python, Bash, or PowerShell).

- Experience with CI/CD tooling such as GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins, or Azure DevOps.

- Strong understanding of Git workflows, branching strategies, and code review practices.

- Ability to troubleshoot complex automation and infrastructure issues across hybrid environments.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience with Chef Habitat or application-level automation.

- Experience with Chef Automate for compliance, reporting, and fleet orchestration.

- Familiarity with Terraform or other IaC tools for provisioning infrastructure.

- Experience with policy-as-code tools (OPA, Conftest, Sentinel).

- Background in security hardening, compliance frameworks, or CIS benchmarks.

- Exposure to Kubernetes, Helm, or container orchestration.

- Experience with monitoring and observability platforms (Prometheus, Datadog, Splunk, ELK).

## Skills

### Required
- Chef Infra
- DevOps
- Infrastructure Automation
- Configuration Management
- Linux Systems Administration
- Cloud Platforms
- CI/CD Tooling
- Git Workflows
- Scripting
- Programming

### Nice to have
- Chef Habitat
- Chef Automate
- Terraform
- Policy-as-Code
- Kubernetes
- Container Orchestration
- Monitoring and Observability

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