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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.\nTitle and Summary\nLead Chef Automation EngineerOverviewThe Lead Chef Automation Engineer is a hands-on technical leader responsible for designing and building scalable automation solutions for large, hybrid infrastructure environments. This role focuses on creating reusable automation frameworks using Chef, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and DevOps practices to deliver secure, consistent, and self-service infrastructure capabilities.\nThe ideal candidate is a strong DevOps or platform engineer with deep hands-on Chef experience who enjoys building automation solutions at scale rather than performing manual infrastructure operations.\nKey Responsibilities\nDesign, develop, and maintain Chef cookbooks, recipes, Policyfiles, and automation frameworks across cloud and on-premises environments.\nBuild and maintain Chef Automate capabilities for configuration management, compliance, reporting, and fleet management.\nDevelop reusable automation libraries, templates, and patterns that standardize infrastructure configuration and provisioning.\nIntegrate automation with CI/CD pipelines, secrets management, artifact repositories, APIs, and governance controls.\nBuild automated testing and validation using Test Kitchen, InSpec, ChefSpec, and related tools.\nPartner with cloud, platform, security, and SRE teams to establish configuration baselines, security standards, and compliance policies.\nDevelop and support Infrastructure as Code using technologies such as Terraform, CloudFormation, and ARM/Bicep.\nTroubleshoot complex automation and configuration issues across hybrid environments.\nContribute to broader platform engineering capabilities, including self-service infrastructure, GitOps, and automated remediation.\nHelp establish engineering standards, reusable automation patterns, and platform architecture.\nRequired Qualifications\nStrong experience in DevOps, platform engineering, infrastructure automation, or configuration management.\nDeep hands-on experience with Chef Infra, including cookbook development, Policyfiles, Test Kitchen, and InSpec.\nExperience supporting large-scale configuration management environments using Chef Server, Chef Automate, or similar technologies.\nStrong understanding of Linux, operating system configuration, hardening, and lifecycle management.\nExperience working across cloud and on-premises infrastructure, including AWS, Azure, GCP, VMware, or Hyper-V.\nStrong scripting or programming skills with Ruby, Python, Bash, or PowerShell, with Ruby particularly relevant to Chef.\nExperience integrating automation into CI/CD environments such as GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins, or Azure DevOps.\nStrong understanding of Git-based development, testing, code review, and version-control practices.\nAbility to diagnose and resolve complex infrastructure and automation problems.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience with Chef Habitat and/or Chef Automate.\nExperience with Terraform or other Infrastructure as Code platforms.\nFamiliarity with policy-as-code technologies such as OPA, Conftest, or Sentinel.\nExperience with security hardening, compliance automation, or CIS benchmarks.\nExposure to Kubernetes, Helm, and container platforms.\nFamiliarity with observability technologies such as Prometheus, Datadog, Splunk, or ELK.\nExperience integrating infrastructure through APIs or network automation.\nCore Technical Areas\nChef & Configuration Management: Chef Infra, Chef Automate, InSpec, Test Kitchen, Policyfiles, Ruby\nInfrastructure as Code: Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM/Bicep\nDevOps & CI/CD: Git, GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins, Azure DevOps\nAutomation & Scripting: Ruby, Python, Bash, PowerShell, APIs\nInfrastructure: Linux, AWS, Azure, GCP, VMware, Hyper-V\nPlatform Engineering: Self-service automation, configuration compliance, secrets management, observability, GitOpsMastercard 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  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.\nCorporate Security Responsibility\nAll 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:\nAbide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;\n\nEnsure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;\n\nReport any suspected information security violation or breach, and\n\nComplete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.\n\nIn 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. 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