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Senior Platform Engineer - Mastercard
Devops Engineer
Senior Platform Engineer responsible for designing, building, and operating scalable database platforms on cloud infrastructure, leveraging Linux, Kubernetes, Terraform, and AWS to ensure high availability and performance.
About the role
Key Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain highly available database platforms on AWS, using infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform.
- Deploy, configure, and manage containerized database services with Kubernetes, ensuring scalability and resilience.
- Automate operational tasks and CI/CD pipelines to streamline provisioning, patching, backup, and recovery processes.
- Monitor performance, troubleshoot incidents, and optimize resource utilization across Linux-based environments.
- Collaborate with development and security teams to enforce best practices, compliance, and security hardening.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in platform engineering or systems administration, with a focus on database services.
- Strong expertise in Linux system administration and networking.
- Hands‑on experience with Kubernetes orchestration and container runtimes.
- Proficiency in Terraform or similar IaC tools for cloud resource management.
- Solid understanding of relational (SQL) and NoSQL databases, and performance tuning techniques.
Skills
linuxkubernetesterraformawssqlcicd