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

Overview

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in over 200 countries and territories worldwide. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible.

The Database & Platform Engineering team is responsible for building and operating secure, scalable, highly available, and automated database platforms that support Mastercard's mission-critical payment systems. We are seeking a Lead Platform Engineer to drive the engineering, automation, reliability, and operational excellence of Oracle and PostgreSQL platforms across on-premises and AWS cloud environments.

This role combines deep database expertise, cloud engineering, DevOps automation, and technical leadership to deliver resilient platforms that enable Mastercard's next generation of payment solutions.

Role

As a Lead Platform Engineer, you will:

Lead the design, build, automation, and support of Oracle and PostgreSQL database platforms.

Engineer highly available and resilient solutions using Oracle RAC, Data Guard, GoldenGate, PostgreSQL Replication, and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL.

Drive AWS cloud adoption and modernization initiatives across database and infrastructure platforms.

Develop Infrastructure-as-Code and automation solutions to improve provisioning, deployment, patching, monitoring, and recovery processes.

Implement and enhance CI/CD pipelines to accelerate delivery while maintaining security and compliance.

Partner with Software Engineering, SRE, Security, and Product teams to deliver reliable and scalable services.

Lead performance optimization, capacity planning, observability, disaster recovery, and operational excellence initiatives.

Provide technical leadership during major incidents, root cause analysis, and platform improvement activities.

Mentor engineers and champion engineering best practices, automation, and continuous improvement.

All About You

Extensive hands-on experience with Oracle Database administration and engineering, including RAC, ASM, RMAN, Data Guard, and GoldenGate.

Strong expertise in PostgreSQL and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, including performance tuning, replication, backup, recovery, and high availability.

Experience designing and supporting large-scale production platforms in AWS, including Aurora, RDS, EC2, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, and S3.

Strong DevOps and automation experience using Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, or similar technologies.

Proficiency in scripting and automation using Python, Shell, Bash, or PowerShell.

Experience implementing monitoring and observability solutions such as OEM, Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, Splunk, or CloudWatch.

Strong understanding of database security, operational resilience, disaster recovery, and compliance requirements.

Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on technical execution in a fast-paced environment.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience within financial services, payments, or other high-volume transaction processing environments.

Knowledge of Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker, and cloud-native platform technologies.

Experience with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices and platform modernization initiatives.

AWS, Oracle, PostgreSQL, or related cloud certifications.

Experience driving automation, self-service platforms, and AI-assisted operational capabilities.

Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks come with an inherent risk to the organization. Every person working for or on behalf of Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:

Abide by Mastercard security policies and practices.

Protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information.

Report security incidents, vulnerabilities, or policy violations.

Complete all required security and compliance training.

This position offers the opportunity to shape the future of Mastercard's database and cloud platforms while driving innovation, automation, and operational excellence at global scale.

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.