Director, Platform Engineering (vmware)

Our Purpose

Mastercard 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 Summary

Director, Platform Engineering (vmware)

Who is Mastercard?
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential.
Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.

Overview
The Distributed Platforms team is looking for a Director to own our vmware virtualization service. This role will assume responsibility for our global virtualization engineering team and developing and executing our virtualization roadmap. You will focus on scaling our service as we experience rapid growth, ensuring operational resliancy and continuing our automation journey.
The ideal candidate is a vmware expert with a proven record of managing vmware estates at scale in highly regulated and mission critical environments.

Role
In this position, you will:
• Run our global virtulization enigneering team
• Own our vmware virtualization service and roadmap
• Focus on how we run and operate our vmware platform at scale
• Partner with our SRE teams to continually enhance our platform resilency
• Assist with major operational incidents where level 3 engineering is required

All About You
The ideal candidate for this position should:
• Have expert level knowledge in vmware
• Have experience running large teams supporting vmware estates
• Experience in supporting technologies like Linux, Storage or container runtimes is ideal
• Have experience driving automation and observability and resiliency improvements
• Have strong communication skills capable of presenting to an executive audience
• Have excellent problem solving and analytical skills
• Stive to challenge the status-quo and drive continual improvement

Corporate Security Responsibility
Every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security. All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and therefore, it is expected that the successful candidate for this position 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, and
• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.

NOTE: Candidates go through a thorough screening and interview process. There is no need to include all preferred skills in the job description.

Corporate Security Responsibility

All 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, and

• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.