Lead Platform Engineer — Chef & IaC Automation

Mastercard; O’Fallon (MO); Vor Ort; USD 140.000 - 190.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Mastercard seeks a Lead Platform Engineer to architect and deliver scalable automation across hybrid cloud environments. You will design Chef-based configurations, build automation pipelines, and drive repeatable infrastructure patterns, working with security and platform teams to enforce baselines and governance.

The role emphasizes hands-on coding, CI/CD integration, and scalable automation with IaC tools like Terraform and CloudFormation.

Qualifikationen

• 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 large-scale configuration management environments (Chef Server, Chef Automate, or similar).

Aufgaben

• 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.

Kenntnisse

Chef Infra

Test Kitchen

InSpec

Ruby

Terraform

CloudFormation

ARM/Bicep

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Jenkins

PowerShell

Python

Tools

Chef Automate

Chef Habitat

VMware

Jobbeschreibung

Mastercard seeks a Lead Platform Engineer to architect and deliver scalable automation across hybrid cloud environments. You will design Chef-based configurations, build automation pipelines, and drive repeatable infrastructure patterns, working with security and platform teams to enforce baselines and governance.

The role emphasizes hands-on coding, CI/CD integration, and scalable automation with IaC tools like Terraform and CloudFormation.