Lead, Platform Engineering F/T

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

Lead, Platform Engineering F/T

Overview
Design solutions for merged or acquired companies to work with the Mastercard network.

Role
• Design, engineering, and implementation of complex network solutions in a variety of disciplines.
• Research and develop innovative solutions using the architectural standards for customer specific, datacenter specific, or corporate office specific use-cases.
• Work on creating low-level designs for the new products and architectural standards set by the architecture team.
• Research and develop automation tools to support the Continuous Integration / Continuous Development (Cl/CD) movement.
• Provide fourth level support to the Operations Command Center; investigation, troubleshooting and resolving network communications and operations problems impacting customer, backbone access, or performance on a global basis.

About You
• Position requires a Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Information Systems, Information Technology, Computer Science or Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related and nine (9) years of progressively responsible experience in job offered or as a System Test Engineer, Quality Assurance Engineer, Network Engineer, or related.
• Qualifying experience must include nine (9) years with each of the following: Network engineering, design, and architecture: LAN/WAN, firewalls, VOiP, QoS, Routing and Switching technologies; TCP/IP protocol with IPV6; Firewall experience: Checkpoint, Palo Alto; Cisco's product portfolio: routers, switches; Aruba product portfolio: switches, ClearPass, Aps; Ability to design, engineer and implement Arista spine-leaf technologies; VMware NSX-T platform; Network diagnostics, protocols, and disciplines, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, SNMP, VPN, SSH, and MPLS technologies; Security and encryption technologies including IPSEC& GRE tunnels on routers and firewalls; Scripting tools: GIT, Terraform, PowerShell, Python, or Ansible.
• Employer will accept any suitable combination of education, training or experience.
• Option to work from home-based office exists. May reside anywhere within the United States.
• To apply, please click the “Apply for job” link above, or send resume to recruiter Tanner Fry, Tanner.Fry@mastercard.com, @ Mastercard Technologies, LLC, 2200 Mastercard Blvd, O’Fallon, MO 63368. Reference MC132-2025.


Incentives offered through MasterCard’s Employee Referral Program Apply to this position. For more information, please visit our Employee Referral Site or see employee handbook.

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.

THIS POSTING RELECTS ONE OR MORE CURRENT VACANCIES ON OUR TEAM, AND MASTERCARD INTENDS TO FILL THIS POSITION BY 01/10/2027. If the fill date has passed, Mastercard intends to fill this position as soon as possible.



Pay Ranges

O'Fallon, Missouri: $122,000 - $207,000 USD