MA Senior Platform Architect-2 Mastercard · Pune · Platform & Infrastructure Pay not stated 2w ago

Devopsroles; Pune District; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 8,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Mastercard seeks a Senior Platform Architect-2 to drive infrastructure design and alignment with security, scalability, and availability standards. You will collaborate with application teams and stakeholders to deliver high-level architectural products and robust internet infrastructure solutions.

The role emphasizes leading regional projects, researching new technologies, and ensuring production systems remain stable and future-ready across global platforms.

Qualifications

• Thorough knowledge of network, OS principles and web middleware.
• Advanced knowledge of load balancers and web application firewalls.
• Cloud technologies and security best practices.
• Ability to interface with users, teams and stakeholders.
• Proactive, detail-oriented, drives results under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Generate requirements with architects, engineers, and users to ensure all high-level needs are met.
• Create TADs, technical documents, flows and models to keep stakeholders aligned.
• Maintain architectural products in current state and prevent obsolescence.
• Resolve internet architectural/operational problems affecting global infra.
• Research new technologies for potential deployment in Mastercard's internet infra.
• Lead regional projects including planning, costing and resource use.
• Implement, manage and support internet infrastructure components.
• Perform diagnostics, tuning, capacity planning and config mgmt.
• Monitor production systems for stability and future compatibility.

Skills

Leadership

Initiative

Communication

Multi-tasking

Quick learning

Collaboration

Team coordination

Tools

YAML-based deployments

Job description

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

Senior Platform Architect-2OverviewInfraDesignServices is a team of Technology Architects and Engineers responsible for the analysis and design of the infrastructure framework to fit the application, platform or system needs in-line with MasterCard’s operational standards and principles.InfraDesignServices is engaged from the beginning of the analysis and design phase to work with the application team(s) and other critical teams within Mastercard to ensure that the completed infrastructure and application architecture aligns with MasterCard’s security, scalability and availability standards.InfraDesignServices' primary deliverable is the TAD (Technical Architecture Document) which details the infrastructure design for the application, platform or system.This job requires experience in internet fundamentals related to web servers, application servers, internet security and other internet technologies.This job actively performs designing and delivering internet infrastructure solutions that satisfy member, product, service and backbone requirements.Have you ever worked with Microsoft Visio to design middleware infrastructure from the ground up?Can you interface with the user(s), application team(s), etc., and all other stakeholders in order to determine their (evolving) needs and requirements?Can you generate the highest level of system requirements, based on the given requirements and other constraints?Can you ensure that this set of high level requirements is consistent, complete, correct, and operationally defined?

Role

• Generating requirements, together with other architects, engineers, application team(s) and user(s), to determine that all of the high level requirements have been met.
• Generating products such as TADs, technical documents, logical flows, and models to keep the user(s), architects and the engineers constantly up to date and in agreement on the application, system or platform to be provided as it is evolving.
• Ensuring that all architectural products and products with architectural input are maintained in the most current state and never allowed to become obsolete.
• Resolve internet architectural and operational problems impacting infrastructure and product availability and performance globally.
• Research and evaluate new technology for possible deployment in MasterCard’s internet infrastructure.
• May assume lead and total accountability for ongoing regional projects as assigned; including responsibility for planning; time and cost control; resource utilization and implementation.
• Implement, manage and support internet infrastructure components while leveraging current standards and best practices.
• Perform problem diagnosis; performance tuning; capacity planning and configuration management for MasterCard internet components.
• Assure system stability and future compatibility by monitoring production execution of all relevant systems.

All About You

• Thorough knowledge and understanding of network, operating system principles and web middleware.
• Thorough knowledge in one or more core functions related to internet infrastructure design and/or web administration
• Advanced knowledge of load balancers and web application firewalls
• Working knowledge of Database technologies.
• Working knowledge of cloud technologies
• Must be high-energy, proactive, detail-oriented and able to function under pressure in an independent environment.
• Must have a high degree of initiative and self-motivation and demonstrate the ability to drive results.
• Strong communication skills both verbal and written and strong relationship and collaborative skills and organizational skills with the ability to work as a member of matrix based diverse and geographically distributed project team.
• Willingness and ability to learn and take on challenging opportunities is critical.
• Knowledge of Zero Trust Architecture principles and Network Micro-segmentation.
• Experience working with YAML based deployments

Skills/Abilities

• Displays leadership and initiative.
• Detailed oriented and customer obsessed.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to multi-task and prioritize efforts.
• Ability to pick up new technologies at a quick pace and learn on-the-go
• Ability to work with team members located in multiple geographies
• Displays excellent collaborative skills with cross-functional teams.
• Provide positive customer service to internal business partners.

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.