Lead Platform Engineer
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
Lead Platform EngineerDevOps & SRE Lead – CI/CD Platforms (13+ Years)Mastercard | MSBX – DevFlow
Overview
MSBX (Mastercard Secure Build Experience) is transforming how more than 11,000 software engineers build, test, and deliver software across Mastercard. Our mission is to provide a secure, resilient, and frictionless software delivery ecosystem—so engineers focus on customer value, not infrastructure complexity.
DevFlow is a cornerstone of this mission. It modernizes Mastercard’s CI/CD ecosystem by retiring legacy platforms, enabling cloud‑native and composable workflows, and embedding security, quality, and compliance by design. DevFlow is not just tooling—it is a productized CI/CD platform, built for enterprise scale, reliability, and developer trust.
This role sits at the intersection of DevOps and SRE—owning both delivery acceleration and operational excellence for CI/CD platforms that are mission‑critical to the enterprise.
The Role
As a Lead, you will provide technical leadership and end‑to‑end ownership of Mastercard’s CI/CD platform capabilities, with a strong focus on SonarQube, Artifactory, and Bitbucket.
You will act as a hands‑on platform leader—designing systems, driving standards, enabling thousands of engineers, and ensuring that CI/CD services are reliable, scalable, secure, and easy to use.
Key Responsibilities
Platform & CI/CD Leadership
- Lead the design, delivery, and evolution of enterprise CI/CD capabilities centered on Bitbucket source control, SonarQube quality scanning, and Artifactory artifact management.
- Define and own opinionated CI/CD workflows, patterns, and guardrails that balance developer autonomy with enterprise governance.
- Drive consistent adoption of code quality gates, artifact lifecycle and promotion standards, and secure build practices across engineering teams.
- Treat CI/CD as a product—prioritizing developer experience, stability, and long‑term sustainability.
- Design and maintain shared pipeline components, templates, and automation frameworks that reduce duplication and improve consistency.
- Automate build, operate, and run aspects of the CI/CD ecosystem—minimizing manual intervention and operational risk.
- Enable scalable, repeatable CI/CD execution using ephemeral and containerized build environments.
• Own the operational health of assigned CI/CD platforms, including:
○ Reliability and availability
○ Monitoring, alerting, and observability
○ Risk identification and remediation
○ Continuous improvement and resilience
- Partner on incident response, root cause analysis, and blameless postmortems, ensuring learnings are fed back into platform design.
- Improve feedback loops so that failures surface early, clearly, and actionably for engineering teams.
- Participate in prioritization and roadmap discussions with Product and Program stakeholders, translating goals into executable technical plans.
- Lead pragmatic design and trade‑off discussions—balancing speed, quality, reliability, and cost.
- Review code, pipeline changes, and automation contributed by others, ensuring alignment to standards and best practices.
- Mentor and guide engineers through hands‑on technical leadership, design reviews, and day‑to‑day problem solving.
- Contribute reusable patterns, libraries, and practices through engineering guilds and platform communities.
Experience & Background
- 12+ years of professional engineering experience, with significant ownership of platform, DevOps, or infrastructure systems at enterprise scale.
- Proven experience designing, building, and operating CI/CD platforms used by multiple teams or organizations.
- Strong fundamentals in software design, automation, reliability engineering, and operational excellence.
• Hands‑on experience with SonarQube, Artifactory, and Bitbucket in enterprise environments
(or equivalent tooling such as GitHub/GitLab, Nexus, etc., with ability to ramp quickly).
• Deep understanding of:
○ Code quality and static analysis
○ Artifact lifecycle management and promotion models
○ Build governance and supply‑chain security
• Experience developing CI/CD automation using modern programming or scripting languages -one or more (Java, Groovy, Python, etc.).
SRE & Operations Mindset
- Strong production ownership mindset—you build it, you run it. Experienced with Linux/Unix.
- Experience improving reliability through monitoring, alerting, resilience patterns, and automation.
- Comfortable operating in environments with high regulatory, security, and compliance expectations.
- Demonstrated capability to drive adoption of standards across diverse teams.
- Strong mentoring skills, supporting the growth of junior and mid‑level engineers.
- Clear, effective communicator, able to work seamlessly with Product, Security, Infrastructure, and Platform teams.
- Experience working in Agile delivery models, including planning, demos, and retrospectives.
- Experience working in cloud‑based or hybrid environments, with knowledge of access controls, identity, and automation. (Azure Or AWS)
- Familiarity with containerized or ephemeral execution models for CI/CD workloads. (Docker, K8s)
- Passion for simplifying systems, reducing cognitive load, and improving developer experience at scale.
Corporate Security Responsibility
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.