Mastercard's Kubernetes Platform Engineering team is seeking a highly skilled Lead Kubernetes Platform Engineer to drive the strategy, architecture, and evolution of our enterprise container platform. This role is responsible for designing, building, and operating cloud-native platform capabilities across Amazon EKS and Azure AKS while enabling secure, scalable, and resilient application delivery at global scale.

As a technical leader, you will serve as a trusted advisor and subject matter expert for Kubernetes, GitOps, platform automation, service mesh, and cloud-native engineering practices. You will lead complex initiatives, guide architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and partner with Architecture, Security, SRE, and Product teams to accelerate adoption of modern platform capabilities across Mastercard.