DevOps Tech Lead

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

DevOps Tech Lead

Who is Mastercard?

Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect

and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making

transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships

and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments,

and businesses realize their greatest potential.

Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our

company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.

Overview

Mastercard Dynamic Yield is looking for a DevOps Tech Lead — a hands-on technical leader who thrives on bridging development and operations at scale. This role is ideal for someone passionate about automation, reliability, and mentoring others while driving architectural and operational excellence across our cloud infrastructure.

As the DevOps Tech Lead, you’ll be responsible for designing, implementing, and evolving our infrastructure and delivery pipelines while leading a team of talented DevOps engineers. You’ll collaborate closely with development, product, and operations teams to ensure efficient, secure, and high-quality releases aligned with business goals.

Role

• Lead and mentor a team of DevOps engineers, guiding best practices in automation, reliability, and cloud infrastructure.
• Architect, provision, and manage AWS cloud infrastructure, including EKS/Kubernetes clusters, EC2 instances, CloudFront, and serverless applications.
• Design, build, and optimize CI/CD pipelines to enable fast, safe, and repeatable delivery.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with R&D teams to design scalable systems, troubleshoot complex issues, and support new product initiatives.
• Champion Infrastructure as Code principles using tools like Terraform and CloudFormation.
• Drive observability and reliability through monitoring, logging, and alerting systems (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, etc.).
• Foster innovation and continuous improvement, adopting new tools and practices to increase efficiency, scalability, and cost optimization.
• Contribute to hands-on coding and automation efforts when needed — lead by example.
• Partner with stakeholders to align DevOps initiatives with business objectives, including uptime, deployment velocity, and cost efficiency.
  
  

• 6+ years of experience in DevOps or SRE roles, including at least 2 years in a technical leadership or team lead capacity.
• Strong Linux systems administration background and deep familiarity with AWS cloud environments.
• Proven experience with container orchestration and tooling (Kubernetes, Helm, Docker Compose).
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, etc.).
• Proficient in scripting and programming (Bash, Python, Go, or Groovy).
• Experience with monitoring and observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively with developers, QA, NOC, and support teams.
• Experience with FinOps or cost optimization in cloud environments — a strong advantage.
• Demonstrated ownership mindset, prioritization skills, and ability to thrive in a fast-paced, multi-tasking environment.
  
  

• 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.