Platform Architect II: Scalable Infra Leader

Mastercard; Swords; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Mastercard is seeking a Platform Architect 2 to join its Infrastructure Design Engineering team in Ireland. You will define infrastructure architecture aligning with security, scalability, and availability standards, from requirements through to deployment.

You will engage early with application teams and stakeholders, ensuring the architecture supports global business needs and evolving security requirements.

Qualifications

• Experience in infrastructure design and architecture for enterprise platforms.
• Strong understanding of internet infrastructure and security concepts.
• Familiarity with cloud architectures and multi-region deployments.

Responsibilities

• Generate requirements with stakeholders to ensure high-level requirements are met.
• Produce technical documents and models reflecting evolving architecture.
• Maintain architectural artifacts to current state and prevent obsolescence.
• Resolve internet architectural and operational issues impacting availability.
• Research new technologies for Mastercard infrastructure.
• Lead regional projects with plan, time, and cost control.
• Implement and support internet infrastructure components per standards.
• Perform diagnostics, tuning, capacity planning and config mgmt.
• Ensure stability and future compatibility of production systems.

Skills

Infrastructure architecture

Networking fundamentals

Cloud technologies

Load balancers

Web middleware

Zero Trust

YAML deployments

Communication skills

Security reviews

Technical leadership

Tools

Visio

DrawIO

F5

Job description

Mastercard is seeking a Platform Architect 2 to join its Infrastructure Design Engineering team in Ireland. You will define infrastructure architecture aligning with security, scalability, and availability standards, from requirements through to deployment.

You will engage early with application teams and stakeholders, ensuring the architecture supports global business needs and evolving security requirements.