Senior Platform Architect, Infrastructure & Cloud Operations

Position Overview

The Instant Financial Issuance as a Service (IFIaaS) Cloud Service consists of various components, such as web services, application servers, and databases, all hosted in an on-premises environment. We are seeking a Senior Platform Architect who is hands-on and deeply involved in the design and evolution of a modern, on-premises SaaS platform.

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 infrastructure-as-code 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 zero-trust networking, mTLS, secrets management, and least-privilege access
• 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.

Compensation Range

• In the US: The anticipated starting base pay for this position is: $149,578-$219,381 per year (in the primary posting location).
• Actual compensation will be determined based on geographic location, education, skills and experience.
• This position is also eligible for the company’s discretionary annual incentive plan.
• In addition to your pay, Entrust offers eligible colleagues and their dependents comprehensive health and well-being programs which include medical, vision, dental, a generous 401(k) matching contribution, life and disability insurance, mental health coaching, virtual fitness programs, paid personal time off plus 12 paid holidays, parental leave and education reimbursement.
• Please speak with the recruiter for more details.
• Note: Benefit and Compensation programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.
• Entrust has the right to end, suspend or amend any of its plans at any time in whole or in part.

For US Roles, Or Where Applicable

Entrust is an EEO/AA/Disabled/Veterans Employer

For Canadian Roles, Or Where Applicable

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.

Recruiter

Contact: Grace Rusingiza
Email: Grace.Rusingiza@entrust.com