Lead PostgreSQL Platform Engineer - Cloud & Automation

Mastercard Inc.; O’Fallon (MO); On-site; USD 122,000 - 207,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401k match

Tuition reimbursement

On-site fitness facilities

Job summary

Mastercard Inc. is seeking a Lead Platform Engineer, Database Engineering, to drive the strategy and lifecycle of Mastercard's enterprise database platforms, with a focus on PostgreSQL, OpenShift/Kubernetes, and cloud-native services.

You will lead a technical team, collaborate with software engineers, SREs, and security teams, and advance automation, IaC, and CI/CD to deliver secure, scalable database capabilities across AWS and hybrid environments.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in PostgreSQL architecture, administration, replication, performance tuning, high availability, disaster recovery, and security.
• Strong experience with AWS Aurora PostgreSQL and EnterpriseDB (EDB).
• Experience building and supporting distributed systems and cloud-native platforms.
• Hands-on knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and configuration management tools including Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Chef, and related technologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, implementation, operation, and continuous improvement of enterprise database platforms.
• Serve as the primary technical leader for PostgreSQL, including Open Source PostgreSQL, EnterpriseDB (EDB), and AWS Aurora PostgreSQL.
• Design highly available, secure, scalable, and resilient database solutions using modern platform engineering principles.
• Engineer and support cloud infrastructure and cloud-native database services across AWS and hybrid environments.
• Drive Infrastructure as Code (IaC) adoption and platform automation using Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Chef, XLR, and related technologies.
• Build and enhance CI/CD integration for database provisioning, deployments, upgrades, testing, and operational workflows.
• Develop automation solutions that improve platform velocity, reliability, consistency, and operational efficiency.
• Design and maintain database infrastructure supporting distributed systems, microservices-based applications, and cloud-native architectures.
• Perform advanced troubleshooting, root cause analysis, performance analysis, capacity planning, tuning, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery planning.
• Establish monitoring, observability, reliability, and operational health frameworks for database services.
• Collaborate with software engineering and platform teams to provide architecture guidance, technical consultation, and platform support.
• Define and implement database engineering standards, configuration management practices, governance processes, and operational procedures.
• Ensure database platforms meet security requirements, risk controls, audit standards, regulatory requirements, and compliance obligations.
• Evaluate emerging database technologies and contribute to platform roadmaps, proof-of-concepts, and modernization initiatives.
• Lead complex technical initiatives spanning multiple teams and regions.
• Mentor engineers and promote engineering excellence through coaching, knowledge sharing, and technical leadership.
• Champion Agile delivery practices, operational excellence, and continuous improvement across database engineering services.

Skills

PostgreSQL

AWS Aurora PostgreSQL

EDB EnterpriseDB

IaC

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

Chef

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Linux

Scripting

Security

Distributed systems

Observability

Tools

OpenShift

Job description

Mastercard Inc. is seeking a Lead Platform Engineer, Database Engineering, to drive the strategy and lifecycle of Mastercard's enterprise database platforms, with a focus on PostgreSQL, OpenShift/Kubernetes, and cloud-native services.

You will lead a technical team, collaborate with software engineers, SREs, and security teams, and advance automation, IaC, and CI/CD to deliver secure, scalable database capabilities across AWS and hybrid environments.