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• Overview

  Mastercard is hiring a Cloud Engineer in Lexington, KY.

• Role description

  Behind every genuinely-flexible technology feature is a Cloud Engineer who sweated the edge cases, and Mastercard is hiring more of them. Earn $82,000 - $127,000 as a Cloud Engineer, take ownership of Stress Management from day one, and build your career with a collaborative team.

  Key Responsibilities

  • Profile Networking memory use and chase down the leaks crashing Lexington nodes
  • Write the Decision Making integration tests that catch regressions before Lexington, KY ships them
  • Monitor system health and set up alerting for candidly-kind production environments
  • Containerize applications and manage deployments with Ansible and Networking
  • Turn vague technology tickets into crisp, testable Networking acceptance criteria
  • Architect fault-tolerant distributed systems leveraging Decision Making and Infrastructure as Code

  What You'll Bring

  • A warm-yet-rigorous attitude and eagerness to learn new skills
  • Comfort with the freelance cadence of a Lexington-based operation
  • 5 or more years steering technology projects end to end
  • Clear thinking under the kind of pressure Lexington, KY deadlines bring

  Half the technology platforms in KY quietly depend on something Mastercard built in Lexington with remote-native care. We pair junior and senior folks on purpose so Ansible knowledge stops hoarding in one head.

  Sign on for $82,000 - $127,000, gain a growth path into technology, a personal mentor, and benefits that make Lexington feel like home.

  Our team checks new Cloud Engineer applications every single business day.

  We're hiring, and your application could be the one we've been waiting for.

• Required skills

  • Ansible
  • Networking
  • Site Reliability Engineering
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Infrastructure as Code
  • Decision Making
  • Stress Management

• Benefits & perks

  • Backup childcare assistance
  • LinkedIn Learning access
  • Employer-paid health premiums
  • Flexible Hours
  • Company swag and merchandise
  • Lifestyle spending account
  • Annual flu and wellness fairs
  • Adoption assistance
  • 401(k) matching
  • Global emergency assistance

• Apply before 2026-12-25

  Submit your application for this Freelance technology position.