Sre Engineer Jobs in Missouri
Sre Engineer jobs in Missouri are active and growing, with demand concentrated in financial technology, healthcare IT, and enterprise software sectors, and openings at every level from associate to staff and principal. Kansas City and St. Louis anchor most of the hiring, with additional opportunities in Columbia and the surrounding corridor, where employers like Cerner Health (now Oracle Health), Edward Jones, and Mastercard Technology have established engineering centers with ongoing reliability engineering needs. The most in-demand specialties include Kubernetes and container orchestration, observability and incident response, and cloud infrastructure automation. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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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
Site Reliability Engineer I
Overview
The Service Operations Technology (SOT) BizOps team is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer I to support and continuously improve enterprise infrastructure, configuration management, discovery, asset and inventory, automation, and operational technology platforms.
This role provides an opportunity to develop expertise at the intersection of software engineering and production operations, with exposure to reliability, observability, automation, operational readiness, incident management, and continuous improvement.
The successful candidate will support production services while developing engineering skills that help reduce operational toil, improve service visibility, automate repetitive activities, and improve platform reliability.
Working with software engineering, infrastructure, product, cybersecurity, and operations teams, this position provides broad exposure to the technologies and engineering practices used to operate business-critical enterprise services.
Role
Business Operations supports operational excellence and production readiness for the platforms we support. The team partners with software engineering and technology teams throughout the service lifecycle to help maintain reliable, observable, secure, scalable, and operationally supportable services.
As a Site Reliability Engineer I, you will develop practical experience operating enterprise technology platforms while applying SRE and DevOps principles to production support.
You will perform platform maintenance, monitoring, troubleshooting, deployment support, and operational validation while contributing to automation and engineering improvements.
As your technical knowledge develops, you will have opportunities to contribute to increasingly complex automation, observability, reliability, and platform-engineering activities with guidance from experienced engineers.
The SRE framework identifies observability, programming and scripting, systems and network administration, cloud computing, reliability and scalability, DevOps practices, troubleshooting, capacity/performance, IT Service Management, and proactive monitoring as core skills within the discipline. At SP9, the framework classifies these skills at the Foundational level.
Responsibilities
- Support the day-to-day operation and maintenance of enterprise technology platforms and supporting infrastructure.
- Perform routine system and application maintenance using established procedures and engineering standards.
- Support monitoring of service health, availability, performance, capacity, and operational events.
- Troubleshoot and resolve basic-to-moderate issues across application, infrastructure, network, operating-system, and integration layers.
- Escalate complex technical issues while assisting experienced engineers with investigation and resolution.
- Support production incidents and participate in root cause analysis and corrective-action activities.
- Perform routine Linux/Unix system administration and support related enterprise infrastructure.
- Participate in operating system and application upgrades, patching, vulnerability remediation, releases, deployments, and production changes.
- Support production-readiness reviews and operational-validation activities for new or changed services.
- Identify opportunities for automation and contribute to scripts and tools that reduce repetitive operational activities and toil, with guidance from experienced engineers.
- Contribute to monitoring, alerting, health-check automation, dashboards, and observability improvements using enterprise technologies such as Splunk and Dynatrace. SOT activities document both technologies in operational monitoring work.
- Work with REST APIs and system integrations in support of automated operational workflows.
- Develop practical experience with source control, CI/CD, release pipelines, deployment automation, and configuration-management technologies.
- Assist with capacity, performance, reliability, and system-health analysis.
- Follow incident, problem, change, configuration-management, security, and operational risk-management practices.
- Maintain technical documentation, operating procedures, troubleshooting guides, and knowledge articles.
- Participate in technical reviews and quality checks that support service stability and operational readiness.
- Collaborate with product, software engineering, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and operations teams.
- Participate in knowledge-sharing activities and continuously develop technical expertise in SRE, automation, observability, cloud, and platform engineering.
Position Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Information Technology, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- Foundational knowledge of Linux/Unix systems and system-administration concepts.
- Foundational programming or scripting experience using Python, PowerShell, Bash, Java, Go, or similar technologies.
- Understanding of networking fundamentals including TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, SSH, and basic network troubleshooting.
- Understanding of software engineering and automation concepts.
- Familiarity with monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability concepts.
- Systematic problem-solving and troubleshooting abilities.
- Understanding of production support, incident response, and change-management practices.
- Ability to document technical procedures, issues, and resolutions effectively.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to collaborate effectively across technical and business teams.
- Strong sense of ownership, curiosity, and interest in automation and continuous learning.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting enterprise applications or infrastructure in production environments.
- Experience with Python, PowerShell, Bash, or similar programming, scripting, and automation technologies.
- Experience developing or supporting REST APIs, system integrations, and automated operational workflows.
- Experience with Splunk, Dynatrace, or comparable enterprise monitoring and observability technologies.
- Familiarity with source-control and repository technologies such as Bitbucket and Git, including branch and pull-request workflows.
- Familiarity with CI/CD, release, and deployment technologies such as Jenkins and XLR.
- Familiarity with configuration management and infrastructure automation technologies such as Chef and Ansible.
- Exposure to workflow or orchestration technologies such as Apache NiFi or comparable platforms. NiFi has been discussed within SOT in connection with orchestrating URL/API monitoring and sending resulting logs to Splunk.
- Familiarity with AWS, Azure, or enterprise cloud environments.
- Experience with CMDB, discovery, asset management, inventory management, or configuration-management technologies.
- Familiarity with BMC Discovery or comparable infrastructure-discovery technologies.
- Experience with Remedy or comparable ITSM technologies.
- Understanding of SSL/TLS and certificate management.
- Familiarity with Agile, DevOps, SRE, and modern software-delivery practices.
- Relevant Linux, cloud, security, automation, DevOps, or SRE certifications.
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 02/03/2027. If the fill date has passed, Mastercard intends to fill this position as soon as possible.
Pay Ranges
O'Fallon, Missouri: $61,000 - $102,000 USD
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
Site Reliability Engineer I
Overview
The Service Operations Technology (SOT) BizOps team is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer I to support and continuously improve enterprise infrastructure, configuration management, discovery, asset and inventory, automation, and operational technology platforms.
This role provides an opportunity to develop expertise at the intersection of software engineering and production operations, with exposure to reliability, observability, automation, operational readiness, incident management, and continuous improvement.
The successful candidate will support production services while developing engineering skills that help reduce operational toil, improve service visibility, automate repetitive activities, and improve platform reliability.
Working with software engineering, infrastructure, product, cybersecurity, and operations teams, this position provides broad exposure to the technologies and engineering practices used to operate business-critical enterprise services.
Role
Business Operations supports operational excellence and production readiness for the platforms we support. The team partners with software engineering and technology teams throughout the service lifecycle to help maintain reliable, observable, secure, scalable, and operationally supportable services.
As a Site Reliability Engineer I, you will develop practical experience operating enterprise technology platforms while applying SRE and DevOps principles to production support.
You will perform platform maintenance, monitoring, troubleshooting, deployment support, and operational validation while contributing to automation and engineering improvements.
As your technical knowledge develops, you will have opportunities to contribute to increasingly complex automation, observability, reliability, and platform-engineering activities with guidance from experienced engineers.
The SRE framework identifies observability, programming and scripting, systems and network administration, cloud computing, reliability and scalability, DevOps practices, troubleshooting, capacity/performance, IT Service Management, and proactive monitoring as core skills within the discipline. At SP9, the framework classifies these skills at the Foundational level.
Responsibilities
- Support the day-to-day operation and maintenance of enterprise technology platforms and supporting infrastructure.
- Perform routine system and application maintenance using established procedures and engineering standards.
- Support monitoring of service health, availability, performance, capacity, and operational events.
- Troubleshoot and resolve basic-to-moderate issues across application, infrastructure, network, operating-system, and integration layers.
- Escalate complex technical issues while assisting experienced engineers with investigation and resolution.
- Support production incidents and participate in root cause analysis and corrective-action activities.
- Perform routine Linux/Unix system administration and support related enterprise infrastructure.
- Participate in operating system and application upgrades, patching, vulnerability remediation, releases, deployments, and production changes.
- Support production-readiness reviews and operational-validation activities for new or changed services.
- Identify opportunities for automation and contribute to scripts and tools that reduce repetitive operational activities and toil, with guidance from experienced engineers.
- Contribute to monitoring, alerting, health-check automation, dashboards, and observability improvements using enterprise technologies such as Splunk and Dynatrace. SOT activities document both technologies in operational monitoring work.
- Work with REST APIs and system integrations in support of automated operational workflows.
- Develop practical experience with source control, CI/CD, release pipelines, deployment automation, and configuration-management technologies.
- Assist with capacity, performance, reliability, and system-health analysis.
- Follow incident, problem, change, configuration-management, security, and operational risk-management practices.
- Maintain technical documentation, operating procedures, troubleshooting guides, and knowledge articles.
- Participate in technical reviews and quality checks that support service stability and operational readiness.
- Collaborate with product, software engineering, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and operations teams.
- Participate in knowledge-sharing activities and continuously develop technical expertise in SRE, automation, observability, cloud, and platform engineering.
Position Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Information Technology, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- Foundational knowledge of Linux/Unix systems and system-administration concepts.
- Foundational programming or scripting experience using Python, PowerShell, Bash, Java, Go, or similar technologies.
- Understanding of networking fundamentals including TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, SSH, and basic network troubleshooting.
- Understanding of software engineering and automation concepts.
- Familiarity with monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability concepts.
- Systematic problem-solving and troubleshooting abilities.
- Understanding of production support, incident response, and change-management practices.
- Ability to document technical procedures, issues, and resolutions effectively.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to collaborate effectively across technical and business teams.
- Strong sense of ownership, curiosity, and interest in automation and continuous learning.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting enterprise applications or infrastructure in production environments.
- Experience with Python, PowerShell, Bash, or similar programming, scripting, and automation technologies.
- Experience developing or supporting REST APIs, system integrations, and automated operational workflows.
- Experience with Splunk, Dynatrace, or comparable enterprise monitoring and observability technologies.
- Familiarity with source-control and repository technologies such as Bitbucket and Git, including branch and pull-request workflows.
- Familiarity with CI/CD, release, and deployment technologies such as Jenkins and XLR.
- Familiarity with configuration management and infrastructure automation technologies such as Chef and Ansible.
- Exposure to workflow or orchestration technologies such as Apache NiFi or comparable platforms. NiFi has been discussed within SOT in connection with orchestrating URL/API monitoring and sending resulting logs to Splunk.
- Familiarity with AWS, Azure, or enterprise cloud environments.
- Experience with CMDB, discovery, asset management, inventory management, or configuration-management technologies.
- Familiarity with BMC Discovery or comparable infrastructure-discovery technologies.
- Experience with Remedy or comparable ITSM technologies.
- Understanding of SSL/TLS and certificate management.
- Familiarity with Agile, DevOps, SRE, and modern software-delivery practices.
- Relevant Linux, cloud, security, automation, DevOps, or SRE certifications.
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 02/03/2027. If the fill date has passed, Mastercard intends to fill this position as soon as possible.
Pay Ranges
O'Fallon, Missouri: $61,000 - $102,000 USD
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Sre Engineer Job Market in Missouri
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- Technology & Software
What Missouri Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in sre engineer jobs across Missouri.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related technical field
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestration in production environments
- Proficiency in at least one scripting or programming language such as Python, Go, or Bash
- Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or ArgoCD
- Strong background in cloud platforms including AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure infrastructure management
- Familiarity with observability tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or PagerDuty for incident management
Sre Engineer Jobs in Missouri: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a sre engineer in Missouri?
There is no state-issued license required to work as a sre engineer in Missouri, so the path runs through education and demonstrated technical experience. Most Missouri employers expect a bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or a closely related field, followed by hands-on engineering experience in software or infrastructure roles. Certifications from cloud providers like AWS Certified DevOps Engineer or Google Professional DevOps Engineer carry consistent weight with Missouri hiring managers and can substitute for some experience gaps.
How much do sre engineers make in Missouri?
Sre engineers in Missouri earn a median of about $126,120 a year, based on May 2025 Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data, ranging from around $72,570 for the lowest 10% to over $169,340 for the top 10%. Pay rises with experience, specialty, and employer.
Which companies hire sre engineers in Missouri?
Employers hiring sre engineers in Missouri right now include Mastercard, Wipro, and Refinitiv US, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Missouri's concentration of financial services, health IT, and logistics companies means many of the largest local employers maintain dedicated reliability engineering teams year-round.
Which Missouri cities have the most sre engineer jobs?
O'Fallon, St. Louis, and Missouri account for the most sre engineer openings in Missouri. Kansas City leads because of its dense cluster of fintech firms, insurance companies, and enterprise software operations, while St. Louis draws consistent demand from healthcare IT organizations, defense contractors, and regional bank technology divisions that keep reliability teams staffed regardless of broader market cycles.
Are there remote sre engineer jobs in Missouri?
Yes, and more than most fields. About 20% of sre engineer openings tied to Missouri are remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting how deeply cloud-based the work has become. On-call incident response and infrastructure automation are the functions most commonly performed fully remotely, while roles requiring hands-on datacenter work or embedded team collaboration tend to carry an in-office or hybrid requirement.
How can I get hired as a sre engineer in Missouri with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is through a software engineering or DevOps associate role, then transitioning internally once you build operational experience. Large Missouri employers like Oracle Health and major Kansas City financial institutions run graduate and early-career engineering programs that accept candidates who demonstrate cloud platform knowledge and scripting ability even without direct SRE titles. Building a portfolio of infrastructure-as-code projects, earning an entry-level cloud certification, and targeting junior DevOps or systems administrator postings are the practical steps that open the door.
Where can I find and apply to sre engineer jobs in Missouri?
You can find and apply to sre engineer jobs in Missouri on Migrate Mate, which lists current Missouri openings across industries and experience levels. Search the listings, find roles that match your background and location preference, and apply directly to the employers posting them.
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