Infrastructure Platform Architect

Mastercard Inc.; Ciudad de México; Presencial; MXN 900.000 - 1.400.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Mastercard Inc. is seeking an Infrastructure Platform Architect in Mexico City to design and deliver scalable internet infrastructure aligned with security and availability standards.

You will collaborate with application teams, architects, and engineers to evolve architectures and maintain current documentation. The role requires 5+ years in networks and web architecture, fluent English, and expertise in load balancers, firewalls, failover, and cloud design.

Formación

• 5+ years of experience in networks and web architecture.
• Fluent English with strong written and verbal communication.
• Expertise in load balancers, firewalls, and security configurations.
• Knowledge of disaster recovery, failover, and routing strategies.
• Cloud design and architecture experience.

Responsabilidades

• Generate requirements with architects, engineers, and users to meet high-level needs.
• Identify and resolve internet architectural and operational bottlenecks affecting availability and performance.
• Produce architectural documents, flows, and models to align stakeholders.
• Keep architectural artifacts current and non-obsolete.
• Research new technologies for potential deployment in Mastercard infrastructure.
• Lead regional projects including planning, cost control, and resources.
• Diagnose problems, perform tuning, capacity planning, and configuration management.
• Ensure system stability and future compatibility through production monitoring.

Conocimientos

Networks

Web Architecture

Cloud design

Load Balancer

Firewall policies

Disaster recovery

English fluency

Communication skills

Descripción del empleo

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 Infrastructure Platform Architect Overview:

Infrastructure Design Services 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. Infrastructure Design Services 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, design and availability standards. Infrastructure Design Services' 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.

Role:

• Generating requirements, together with other architects, engineers, development team(s) and user(s), to determine that all the high-level requirements have been met.
• Resolve internet architectural and operational problems impacting infrastructure and product availability and performance globally.
• Generating products such technical architecture 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 maintained in the most current state and never allowed to become obsolete.
• Research and evaluate new technology for possible deployment in MasterCard’s 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.
• 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:

• +5 years of experience working and understanding networks, operating system principles and web architecture
• Thorough knowledge in core functions related to internet infrastructure design and web administration.
• Fluent English, is a must.
• Deep understanding on Load Balancer, firewall policies and configurations.
• Well verse with Failover strategy and current design and security best practices.
• Deep understanding on Disaster failover techniques and routing strategy.
• Solid knowledge on Cloud design and architecture.
• 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.
• 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.

WORK LOCATION: Mexico City

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.

Everyone wants easier ways to pay; we invent them. Checkout lines are slow; we speed them along. Merchants want more sales; we give them data and insights. People need financial access; we connect them. Corporate purchasing is complicated; we make it simple. Commuters are busy; we speed them on their way. Governments need greater efficiencies; we help create them. Small businesses are virtual; we give them access to a world of buyers. Retailers want to fight fraud; we provide the tools.