Senior Platform Architect, Infrastructure & Cloud Operations

Responsibilities:

• Own the availability architecture across compute, network, storage, data, and app tiers to exceed 99.9% service availability
• Design fault domains (host, rack, cluster, site) and enforce placement strategies to ensure resilience and predictable failure behavior and blast radius limits
• Eliminate single points of failure across compute, storage, networking, ingress, identity, secrets, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Design graceful degradation strategies at the infrastructure level to maintain core functionality during overload or partial failure
• Define performance budgets, SLOs, and capacity headroom for peak traffic and failure scenarios
• Define SLOs, SLIs and error budgets and ensure they inform deployment, scaling, and incident response
• Drive infrastructureascode and GitOps practices to ensure consistent, repeatable environments
• Define and enable progressive deployment models (canary, blue/green, rolling) with automated rollback
• Build platform and CI/CD capabilities that directly improve ( deployment frequency, lead time for changes, change failure rate, mean time to recover MTTR )
• Embed security by design, including zerotrust networking, mTLS, secrets management, and leastprivilege access
• Establish standard observability for metrics, logs, traces, and health signals across the platform
• Enable operational and incident response readiness, including runbooks, failure testing, and automated remediation
• Act as the technical authority for platform architecture decisions and tradeoffs
• Partner with engineering teams to onboard services and ensure alignment with platform standards
• Provide reference architectures, patterns, and guidance that improve developer experience and delivery speed.
• Basic Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or equivalent combination of education and experience
• 8+ years of related experience as a Platform/ Solutions/ System Design Architect, Software Engineer, Senior DevOps Engineer or a role in similar capacity
• Proven experience designing distributed systems with an emphasis on availability, scalability, resilience, and performance
• Demonstrated expertise in microservices architecture, API design, and service to service communication patterns
• Strong knowledge of system design principles including fault tolerance, capacity planning, dependency isolation, and failure handling
• Experience leading or contributing to architecture reviews, technical design discussions, and cross team initiatives
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly document and explain complex system designs
• About Entrust:
• Entrust keeps the world moving safely by enabling trusted identities, payments, and data protection around the globe. Today more than ever, people demand seamless, secure experiences, whether they’re crossing borders, making a purchase, or accessing corporate networks. With our unmatched breadth of digital security and credential issuance solutions, it’s no wonder the world’s most entrusted organizations trust us.
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• Entrust Corporation is an EOE/AA/Veteran/People with Disabilities employer.
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• At Entrust, we don’t just offer jobs – we offer career journeys. Here is what you can expect when you join our team:
• Career Growth: Whether you’re a budding developer or a seasoned expert, we’re invested in your professional journey. With learning-forward initiatives and exciting challenges, your growth is our priority.
• Flexibility: Life is all about balance. Whether you’re remote, hybrid, or on-site, we offer flexible options that fit your lifestyle.
• Collaboration: Here, your voice matters. Our teams thrive on sharing ideas, brainstorming solutions, and working together to build a better tomorrow.
• We believe in securing identities—but it doesn’t stop there. At Entrust, we’re passionate about valuing all identities. Our culture is built on diversity, inclusion, and respect. From unconscious bias training for our leaders to global affinity groups that connect colleagues across the globe, we’re creating a community where everyone is encouraged to be themselves.
• Ready to Make an Impact?
• If you’re excited by the prospect of innovating, growing your career, and collaborating in a dynamic environment, Entrust is the place for you. Join us in making a difference. Let’s build a more secure world—together.
• Apply today!
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• Entrust values diversity and inclusion and we are committed to building a diverse workforce with wide perspectives and innovative ideas. We welcome applications from qualified individuals of all backgrounds, and we strive to provide an accessible experience for candidates of all abilities.
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