Fulltime Power Platform Developer Jobs in Missouri

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
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.
Role Summary
Director, Platform Engineering
At Mastercard, the pace of change across technology, AI, and the nature of work requires that we constantly push the boundaries for the technologies in building and operating infrastructure and applications globally. The Director, Platform Engineering is a critical technology and engineering leadership role within Operations Automation Program accountable for advancing our infrastructure and platform automation strategy through innovation and effective problem-solving. This role focuses on analyzing, coding, and delivering software and platform solutions. Operations Automation program supports Mastercard's global infrastructure footprint by building and maintain automation platforms, automating infrastructure, services, and application delivery with efficient tools and processes.
The Director, Platform Engineering is a hands-on technical expert responsible for designing, building, and maintaining automation frameworks, platform services, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) capabilities that power large scale, hybrid infrastructure environments. Focuses on engineering reusable automation patterns, enabling self-service infrastructure delivery, and improving reliability, consistency, and velocity across cloud and on prem platforms. The ideal candidate brings hands on experience with infrastructure automation tools like Terraform, Ansible or Chef, strong DevOps engineering skills, and a passion for building scalable automation solutions.
Key Responsibilities
• Design, build, and maintain Infrastructure as Code solutions using platforms like Terraform, Ansible, Chef to automate provisioning across cloud and on prem environments.
• Develop reusable modules, playbooks, and automation libraries that standardize infrastructure deployment patterns.
• Engineer and enhance platform services, including CI/CD pipelines, secrets management, artifact repositories, and configuration management systems.
• Implement automated testing, validation, and security scanning for IaC and platform components.
• Integrate automation with cloud platforms, virtualization systems, network/security appliances, and enterprise tooling.
• Implement drift detection, compliance checks, and automated remediation workflows.
• Collaborate with cloud, network, security, and SRE teams to define automation standards and best practices.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure, automation, and CI/CD issues across hybrid environments.
• Contribute to documentation, architectural diagrams, and engineering design reviews.
Required Qualifications
• 5-8+ years of experience in DevOps, platform engineering, cloud engineering, or infrastructure automation roles.
• Strong hands-on experience with Terraform, Ansible or Chef
• Solid understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and on prem infrastructure (VMware, Linux, networking fundamentals).
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins, or Azure DevOps.
• Strong scripting or programming skills (Python, Go, or similar).
Experience with configuration management, secrets management, and artifact repositories.
• Familiarity with GitOps workflows and declarative infrastructure patterns.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across infrastructure, automation, and platform layers.
Preferred Qualifications
• Experience developing or extending Terraform modules or custom providers.
• Experience with Ansible Collections, dynamic inventories, or Ansible Tower/Ansible Automation Platform.
• Experience with policy as code tools (OPA and Sentinel).
• Experience with monitoring, observability, and logging platforms.
• Exposure to SRE practices and reliability engineering.
Core Technical Skills (Competency Areas)
Infrastructure as Code
• Terraform (modules, workspaces, state management)
• Ansible (playbooks, roles, collections, automation controller)
• VMware, Linux, virtualization, hybrid networking
• DevOps & CI/CD
• Pipeline design and automation
• Python, Go, or PowerShell
• Self-service automation
• Configuration management
• Observability and operational tooling
Role Scope & Collaboration
• Works within a platform engineering or DevOps organization to build automation capabilities used across the enterprise.
• Collaborates closely with:
o Cloud engineering
o Network and security teams
o SRE and operations
o Application development teams
o Architecture and governance groups
• Acts as a subject matter expert for IaC, automation patterns, and DevOps tooling.
• Contributes to engineering standards, reusable patterns, and platform roadmaps.
Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.com and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.
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.

In line with Mastercard's total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in the US, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive base salary and may be eligible for an annual bonus or commissions depending on the role. The base salary offered may vary depending on multiple factors, including but not limited to location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Mastercard benefits for full time (and certain part time) employees generally include: insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance); flexible spending account and health savings account; paid leaves (including 16 weeks of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave); 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time, 25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days, pro-rated based on date of hire; 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays; 401k with a best-in-class company match; deferred compensation for eligible roles; fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities; eligibility for tuition reimbursement; and many more. Mastercard benefits for interns generally include: 56 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time; jury duty leave; and on-site fitness facilities in some locations.
Pay Ranges
O'Fallon, Missouri: $152,000 - $258,000 USD