Director - Cloud Engineering

Our Purpose
Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we're helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.
Title and Summary
Director - Cloud Engineering
Overview
We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated Director of Cloud Engineer to join Mastercard's Cloud Platform Engineering organization. In this role, you will design, build, and evolve Mastercard's cloud platforms-on either AWS, Azure, or both, depending on your background.
You will deliver secure, scalable, automated cloud capabilities that accelerate development across Mastercard. This role requires deep cloud platform expertise, strong engineering fundamentals, and excellent leadership skills.
f AWS-Focused
Design and maintain a multi-account AWS platform using services such as Organizations, VPC, IAM, EKS, EC2, S3, RDS, MSK, Glue, EMR, Lambda, and Route 53.
Build AWS infrastructure using AWS CDK and CloudFormation.
Implement secure connectivity patterns (Transit Gateway, PrivateLink, Direct Connect).
Configure platform governance using AWS Control Tower, SCPs, IAM, and Landing Zones.
Improve AWS platform lifecycle, operational maturity, and automation.
If Azure-Focused
Implement automated provisioning of Mastercard's Azure environment using Terraform and Bicep (Azure's native IaC language).
Design, develop, and deploy software systems using Azure services (VNet, AKS, Azure Storage, Azure SQL, Event Hub, Data Factory, etc.).
Lead architectural decisions and platform design patterns for Azure cloud solutions.
Implement Azure governance, policies, and security best practices.
Troubleshoot complex Azure infrastructure, networking, and deployment issues.
Support application teams with Azure scaling, performance tuning, automation, and self-service enablement.
Shared (AWS or Azure)
Lead architecture discussions, code reviews, design reviews, and cross-team technical decisions.
Champion reliability, automation, and DevOps/SRE best practices.
Drive incident response, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement.
Mentor engineers and elevate technical excellence across cloud teams.
Ensure cloud best practices for logging, monitoring, and alerting.
Build reusable patterns, guardrails, and self-service capabilities to accelerate development.
All About You
Required Qualifications
7+ years of experience in cloud engineering, platform engineering, or large-scale distributed systems.
Deep hands-on experience with AWS OR Azure (either expertise is acceptable).
Strong proficiency with Infrastructure-as-Code:
AWS: CDK / CloudFormation
Azure: Terraform AND/OR Bicep
Strong understanding of cloud networking (VPC/VNet, private endpoints, hybrid connectivity).
Experience with CI/CD and build/deployment tooling (Jenkins, CodePipeline, GitHub/BitBucket, Artifactory, SonarQube).
Strong programming background (Python, Java, Go) and scripting skills (Python, Bash, PowerShell).
Experience designing and troubleshooting highly available, distributed systems.
Ability to debug, optimize, automate, and drive engineering excellence.
Strong communication and leadership skills.
Preferred Qualifications
AWS or Azure cloud certifications (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, SysOps, etc.).
Experience with container orchestration (EKS or AKS).
Experience implementing AWS Control Tower or Azure Landing Zone equivalents.
Experience with data engineering workloads (Glue/EMR or Data Factory/Synapse).
Familiarity with Windows and Linux internals.
Advanced degree in Computer Science or related field.
Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact [email protected] and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.
Corporate Security Responsibility
All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:

• Abide by Mastercard's security policies and practices;
• Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
• Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard's guidelines.

In line with Mastercard's total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. The base salary offered may vary depending on multiple factors, including but not limited to location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: 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; and many more. Mastercard benefits for interns generally include: 56 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time; jury duty leave; and on-site fitness facilities in some locations.
Pay Ranges
O'Fallon, Missouri: $170,000 - $281,000 USD