# Director, Platform Engineering

**Company**: Mastercard
**Location**: O'Fallon, Missouri
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $152,000 - $258,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Mastercard is seeking a Director, Platform Engineering to lead the advancement of our infrastructure and platform automation strategy through innovation and effective problem-solving.

The Director, Platform Engineering is a critical technology and engineering leadership role within Operations Automation Program accountable for designing, building, and maintaining automation frameworks, platform services, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) capabilities that power large scale, hybrid infrastructure environments.

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.

Mastercard benefits for full time employees generally include: insurance, flexible spending account and health savings account, paid leaves, 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.

## Skills

### Required
- Terraform
- Ansible
- Chef
- Python
- Go
- CI/CD pipelines
- Cloud platforms
- Infrastructure automation

### Nice to have
- 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

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