Cloud Engineer

Mastercard; City of Syracuse (NY); On-site; USD 70,000 - 92,000; Part time

Job summary

Mastercard Inc. in Syracuse is seeking an internship Cloud Engineer fluent in ELK Stack to keep high-availability platforms humming. This internship pairs $70,000–$92,000 with ownership, collaboration, and a long-term growth track.

You will join a team of growth-minded engineers focusing on scalable microservices, NY regulatory governance, and mentoring that balances real-life commitments with hands-on learning.

Qualifications

• Familiarity with the rhythms of a collaborative internship team.
• Knowledge of NY-specific regulations relevant to technology work.
• Comfort presenting to a NY-wide audience without a script.
• Hands-on Growth Mindset experience that survives a whiteboard interview.

Responsibilities

• Build responsive, accessible front-end interfaces with Growth Mindset.
• Profile and refactor legacy code to reduce technical debt over time.
• Re-architect technology flow for Microservices to scale Syracuse load.
• Patch Helm dependencies to prevent CVEs.
• Identify bottlenecks and propose architectural improvements.
• Integrate third-party services and internal tools into Mastercard stack.
• Fix Microservices outage scenarios to ensure smoother Syracuse launches.
• Pair with analysts to align Mastercard's thinking models with real behavior.

Skills

ELK Stack

Growth Mindset

Team Collaboration

Public Speaking

Tools

ELK Stack

Job description

We engineer high-availability platforms, and we are searching for a Cloud Engineer fluent in ELK Stack to keep them humming. An internship Cloud Engineer seat at Mastercard that pairs $70,000 - $92,000 with ownership, collaboration, and a long-term growth track.

Key Responsibilities

• Build responsive, accessible front-end interfaces with Growth Mindset
• Profile and refactor legacy code to reduce technical debt over time
• Re-architect the technology flow so Microservices handles ten times Syracuse's current load
• Keep Mastercard's Helm dependencies patched before the CVEs become incidents
• Identify bottlenecks and propose architectural improvements proactively
• Integrate third-party services and internal tools into the Mastercard stack
• Translate the genuinely-flexible Microservices outage into fixes that make the next Syracuse launch dull
• Pair with technology analysts so Mastercard's Critical Thinking models match real behavior

What You'll Bring

• Familiarity with the rhythms of a collaborative internship team
• Knowledge of NY-specific regulations relevant to technology work
• Comfort presenting to a NY-wide audience without a script
• Hands-on Growth Mindset experience that survives a whiteboard interview

Mastercard is what happens when joyfully-rigorous engineers in Syracuse decide that good enough is the enemy of great Growth Mindset. Curiosity outranks credentials on this technology team, so bring questions, not just answers.

We anchor everything in $70,000 - $92,000, then add mentorship, benefits, and the freedom to flex your internship schedule around real life.

Current and accurate as of this visit, the internship opening stands ready.