Our PurposeMastercard 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 SummaryPrincipal Cloud Infrastructure EngineerAbout the RoleCloud Infrastructure Engineers at Mastercard design, build, and operate the foundational platforms that enable our product and service teams to deliver securely, reliably, and at scale. This role focuses on Azure-based infrastructure, cloud-native services, and automation that power transaction processing, analytics, developer productivity, and self-service delivery across the enterprise.As a Principal Cloud Infra Engineer, you serve as a deeply experienced technical leader and organizational thought partner, operating with enterprise-wide scope and influence. You are accountable for shaping long-term platform strategy, driving architectural excellence across multiple domains, and ensuring alignment between cloud infrastructure investments and Mastercard’s business and technology priorities.You will lead the evolution of critical platform capabilities, establish durable engineering standards, and proactively identify opportunities to modernize, simplify, and scale our cloud ecosystem. While remaining hands-on where it matters most, your primary impact is through technical vision, decision-making, and the amplification of other engineers and teams.As a Principal Cloud Infra Engineer, you are expected to:Set and drive long-term technical vision and strategy for cloud infrastructure and platform engineering across multiple domainsServe as the architectural authority for Azure-based infrastructure, ensuring consistency, scalability, and alignment with enterprise standardsLead the design of highly complex, business-critical platform systems, making and guiding key architectural tradeoffsEstablish and enforce enterprise-wide patterns, standards, and guardrails for secure, resilient, and cost-efficient cloud solutionsInfluence and align senior engineering, product, and architecture leaders on multi-year platform direction and investment prioritiesIdentify and mitigate systemic and emerging risks across reliability, security, scalability, and financial efficiencyDrive platform simplification and modernization efforts, reducing duplication and technical fragmentation across teamsChampion self-service platform capabilities and developer experience improvements at enterprise scaleLead and facilitate cross-organizational design reviews, elevating engineering quality and consistencyMentor and develop senior engineers and technical leaders, raising the bar for engineering excellence across the organizationAct as a trusted advisor to leadership, translating business strategy into durable, scalable platform solutionsStay ahead of industry trends, bringing forward new ideas and capabilities that meaningfully advance Mastercard’s cloud ecosystemAll About YouIt is expected that a candidate has experience across multiple areas listed below:Deep, enterprise-scale experience designing and operating Azure-based cloud platforms, spanning compute, networking, storage, identity, and managed servicesRecognized expertise in Infrastructure-as-Code and automation at scale, with strong focus on composability, governance, and policy-driven engineeringAdvanced understanding of cloud security architecture, including zero-trust design, identity federation, secure network boundaries, and regulatory considerationsProven track record of architecting and evolving highly resilient, globally distributed systems, with strong command of failure domains and recovery strategiesDemonstrated ability to define and execute multi-team, multi-phase technical strategies, including dependency management and incremental delivery modelsStrong bias toward operational excellence, ensuring observability, reliability engineering practices, and cost transparency are foundational elements of all solutionsExceptional problem-solving and systems-thinking skills, with the ability to diagnose complex, cross-domain issues and drive resolutionExtensive experience with enterprise CI/CD, SDLC governance, and platform engineering practices at scaleHighly effective communicator capable of influencing executive stakeholders and driving alignment across large, distributed organizationsConsistent track record of developing senior talent and shaping engineering culture, beyond direct reporting linesPragmatic leader who can balance strategic vision with execution, navigating organizational and technical tradeoffs effectivelyActive contributor to industry and internal communities, with a strong pulse on emerging trends in cloud, DevOps, and platform engineeringCorporate Security ResponsibilityAll activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must: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, andComplete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.