Senior Platform Engineer - Chef Automation & IaC

Mastercard; Ciudad de México; Presencial; MXN 1.200.000 - 1.800.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Mastercard in Mexico City seeks a Lead Platform Engineer to design, build, and maintain automation frameworks for large-scale hybrid infrastructures. You will implement Chef-based configurations, Infrastructure as Code, and DevOps tooling to deliver secure, self-service capabilities.

The ideal candidate has 5–8+ years in DevOps or platform engineering, deep Chef expertise, and hands-on experience with cloud platforms and CI/CD pipelines.

Formación

• 5–8+ years of experience in DevOps, platform engineering, infrastructure automation, or configuration management roles.
• Strong hands-on experience with Chef Infra, including cookbook development, policy files, Test Kitchen and InSpec.
• Experience managing largescale configuration management environments (Chef Server, Chef Automate, or similar).
• Solid understanding of Linux systems administration, OS hardening, and lifecycle management.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and on Prem virtualization (VMware, HyperV).
• Strong scripting or programming skills (Ruby preferred for Chef, plus Python, Bash, or PowerShell).
• Experience with CI/CD tooling such as GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins, or Azure DevOps.
• Strong understanding of Git workflows, branching strategies, and code review practices.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex automation and infrastructure issues across hybrid environments.

Responsabilidades

• Design, develop, and maintain Chef cookbooks, recipes, roles, and policy files to automate configuration management across cloud and prem environments.
• Build and maintain Chef Automate or equivalent orchestration pipelines for compliance, reporting, and fleet management.
• Engineer reusable automation frameworks, including shared libraries, templates, and patterns for consistent infrastructure provisioning.
• Integrate Chef automation with CI/CD pipelines, secrets management, artifact repositories, and enterprise governance controls.
• Implement automated testing and validation for Chef code using tools such as Test Kitchen, InSpec, and ChefSpec.
• Collaborate with cloud, platform, and security teams to define and enforce configuration baselines, compliance policies, and hardened system standards.
• Support the design and implementation of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM/Bicep) for provisioning compute, network, and platform services.
• Troubleshoot complex automation and infrastructure issues across hybrid environments.
• Contribute to platform engineering initiatives such as self-service catalogs, GitOps workflows, and automated remediation.
• Document automation patterns, architectural decisions, and operational runbooks.

Conocimientos

Chef Infra

Chef Automate

InSpec

Test Kitchen

Ruby

Python

Bash/PowerShell

CI/CD

Git workflows

SRE mindset

Herramientas

Terraform

CloudFormation

ARM/Bicep

Kubernetes

VMware

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Datadog

Descripción del empleo

Mastercard in Mexico City seeks a Lead Platform Engineer to design, build, and maintain automation frameworks for large-scale hybrid infrastructures. You will implement Chef-based configurations, Infrastructure as Code, and DevOps tooling to deliver secure, self-service capabilities.

The ideal candidate has 5–8+ years in DevOps or platform engineering, deep Chef expertise, and hands-on experience with cloud platforms and CI/CD pipelines.