Director, Platform Engineering in London

• Title and Summary
• Director, Platform Engineering
• Overview

The Distributed Platforms Program is looking for an highly skilled Kubernetes engineering director to drive the delivery of a new on‑premises Kubernetes capability (using Openshift).

The Kubernetes platform will be rolled out at a significant scale across Mastercard and will be responsible for supporting tens of thousands of workloads globally.

The successful candidate should have a balance of engineering and management skills, they will be responsible for team/people management, and engineering direction / best practices.

Previous experience managing on premise K8s platforms at scale, operations, security hardening, and platform automation is a must.

• Role
• Working within a global team, the role will be responsible for implementing IT initiatives that supports and continually improves our operational efficiency, driving automation, improving cost effectiveness, and creating operational excellence.
• Will include championing technology innovation and change, working with innovation stakeholders across the business, creating a culture of collaboration.
• Requires previous experience of implementing Kubernetes within a large organization, and to be proficient with infrastructure / platform automation, with the ability to evangelize these across the organization.
• Is primarily focused on services, ensuring we meet SLAs and efficiency targets, providing support for solutions based upon principles of high‑availability, agility, scale and efficiency.
• Requires working with: Agile frameworks, Infrastructure As Code, Infrastructure and Network technologies.
• Orchestrate the build and deployment of containerized environments.
• Building and maintaining virtualization automation, monitoring, and reporting tools.
• Troubleshooting, resolving, and assisting in complex environmental issue resolution.
• Participation in automation initiatives driving change and efficiencies.
• Mentoring and sharing knowledge with other members of the team through retros, planning meetings and daily standups.
• All About You
• 4+ years of management experience.
• 4+ years experience with building and running on‑premises Kubernetes (ideally Open Shift). CKA, CKAD, or CKS certifications a plus.
• Solid infrastructure experience. Networking, storage, and compute (GPU, VMWare & Baremetal).
• Demonstrated ability to organize, manage, plan and control several concurrent initiatives with conflicting needs.
• Track record of successful delivery in a large enterprise environment.
• Experience working with complex, low latency containerized workloads.
• Familiarity or working knowledge of public cloud patterns (AWS/EKS, Azure/AKS); container tools (Kubernetes, Docker); pipeline tools (Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform); ancillary (Artifactory, Hashicorp Vault); logging and monitoring (Loki, ELK, Prometheus, Kibana, Splunk, Dynatrace).
• 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.
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