Who you are

- Proven experience leading technical cloud infrastructure teams responsible for building, operating, and improving enterprise-scale cloud platforms

- Strong hands-on understanding of AWS and Azure technologies, including cloud provisioning, scaling patterns, infrastructure automation, and operational reliability

- Deep knowledge of networking fundamentals, cloud connectivity, routing, segmentation, resiliency, and secure integration between cloud platforms and enterprise environments

- Experience defining and applying cloud governance models, infrastructure standards, controls, guardrails, and reusable patterns that enable teams to move quickly and safely

- Working knowledge of FinOps practices, including cost transparency, forecasting, consumption management, accountability, and optimization across cloud platforms

- Ability to break down complex technical problems into clear options, recommendations, and execution plans that engineering and business stakeholders can understand

- Experience owning technical roadmaps, setting priorities, and driving execution against product deliverables in partnership with product, engineering, and platform stakeholders

- Confident communicator who can lead technical discussions, challenge assumptions, drive alignment, and make assertive decisions in ambiguous environments

- Ability to review infrastructure and architecture designs, ask robust technical questions, surface risks, and make clear recommendations to improve delivery quality and platform outcomes

- Clear understanding of modern engineering practices, including GitOps, Kubernetes, CI/CD, policy as code, and Agile methodologies used to deliver secure, repeatable, and automated infrastructure capabilities

- Strong cross-functional collaborator with the ability to partner across Engineering, Product, Security, Architecture, Operations, Finance, and vendor teams to deliver cloud-first solutions

- Experience supporting vendor evaluations and negotiations, with the ability to assess technical trade-offs, commercial terms, service commitments, and long-term platform value

- People who can scale and lead teams across geographies, work effectively across time zones, motivate, coach, develop, and challenge team members while raising technical standards, improving execution discipline, and building a strong team culture

What the job involves





- We are seeking a Technical Director of Cloud Infrastructure to lead a technical team that builds, scales, and operates cloud platform capabilities across AWS and Azure

- This role sits within the Services Enablement and Transformation team, advancing repeatable cloud patterns, improving delivery efficiency, and reducing implementation risk across Mastercard Services

- This leader will own the cloud platform roadmap, set priorities, and drive execution against product deliverables from a cloud platform perspective
- The role requires technical depth across provisioning, infrastructure as code, networking, Kubernetes, GitOps, CI/CD, policy as code, security, and cloud governance, along with the leadership discipline to turn complex infrastructure needs into secure, reliable, reusable platform capabilities
- The Director will partner with Engineering, Product, Security, Enterprise Architecture, Operations, Finance, and vendors to reduce delivery friction and improve outcomes for internal customers

- About the Role:
- The Director of Cloud Infrastructure will manage a technical team within Services Enablement and Transformation responsible for delivering secure, scalable, well-governed cloud infrastructure capabilities across AWS and Azure

- This leader will bring a deep understanding of cloud provisioning, scaling challenges, networking, cloud connectivity, infrastructure automation, FinOps, and governance models, with a focus on repeatability, execution efficiency, and risk reduction

- This role requires a technical leader who can break complex infrastructure problems into clear execution plans, lead technical discussions, and partner across Engineering, Product, Security, Architecture, Operations, Finance, and vendors to deliver cloud-first solutions
- The Director must be comfortable with ambiguity, assertive recommendations, and stakeholder alignment around practical outcomes
- The Director will motivate and challenge team members, set clear delivery expectations,



and create an environment where engineers solve hard infrastructure problems with urgency and discipline

- This leader will support vendor negotiations, evaluate technology trade-offs, and ensure cloud investments align to cost, risk, security, and business value

- Directly manage a technical cloud infrastructure team focused on AWS and Azure provisioning, scaling, networking, connectivity, automation, and reliability

- Define and deliver reusable cloud patterns, infrastructure as code modules, governance guardrails, and platform standards that enable teams to move quickly and safely

- Drive execution across complex cloud initiatives by breaking down technical problems, clarifying priorities, removing blockers, and holding teams accountable for outcomes

- Own the cloud platform roadmap and prioritization, ensuring the team executes product deliverables and delivers measurable outcomes for internal customers

- Partner across Engineering, Product, Security, Architecture, Operations, Finance, and vendor teams to deliver cloud-first infrastructure solutions at enterprise scale

- Work with Enterprise Architecture to propose cloud infrastructure solutions, reference patterns, and standards that can be repeatedly adopted across teams and platforms

- Apply FinOps and cloud governance practices to improve cost transparency, consumption discipline, risk management, and accountability across cloud platforms

- Lead technical discussions with clarity and confidence, translating complex infrastructure trade-offs into practical recommendations for engineering and business stakeholders

- Review cloud infrastructure designs, challenge assumptions, identify risks, and recommend improvements to scalability, security, resiliency, automation, and readiness

- Operate effectively in ambiguous environments by making assertive decisions, aligning stakeholders, and adapting plans as requirements, risks, and priorities evolve

- Support vendor evaluations and negotiations, ensuring provider commitments, commercial terms, and technical solutions align with platform needs and enterprise goals

- Motivate, coach, and challenge team members to raise technical standards, improve delivery discipline, develop talent, and build resilient cloud infrastructure capabilities across geographies and time zones

📌 Director of Cloud Infrastructure (Vancouver)
🏢 Mastercard
📍 Vancouver