Senior Platform Architect, Infrastructure & Cloud Operations

Entrust Corporation; Field (NM); On-site; USD 149,578 - 219,381; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) matching contribution

Comprehensive health and well-being programs

Paid personal time off plus 12 paid holidays

Education reimbursement

Job summary

Entrust Corporation is seeking a Senior Platform Architect to lead the design and evolution of a modern, on-premises SaaS platform. This role focuses on building reliable, scalable systems with strict availability standards, emphasizing distributed microservices architecture and fault tolerance.

The ideal candidate will have over 8 years of experience, deep knowledge of system design principles, and will actively participate in technical design discussions across teams. Comprehensive benefits and competitive compensation are offered.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of related experience as Platform/Solutions/System Design Architect or Senior DevOps Engineer.
• Proven experience designing distributed systems with emphasis on availability and scalability.
• Strong knowledge of system design principles including fault tolerance and dependency isolation.

Responsibilities

• Own the availability architecture across compute, network, storage, data, and app tiers.
• Design fault domains and enforce placement strategies for resilience.
• Define performance budgets, SLOs, and capacity headroom for peak traffic.

Skills

Distributed systems design

Microservices architecture

API design

Fault tolerance

Capacity planning

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or Software Engineering

Job description

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. The platform is built using distributed microservices, runs primarily on VMware‑hosted Windows workloads, and is transitioning toward containerized architectures. This role focuses on designing and validating systems that meet strict requirements for availability (99.9%), scalability, performance, and security. In this role, you will work directly with engineering, infrastructure, and the CloudOps team to design platform architecture, define deployment patterns, and solve complex system‑level challenges. You will actively participate in architectural design sessions, review and influence implementation details, and help troubleshoot and remediate systemic issues in production environments. The Senior Platform Architect is expected to deeply understand how the platform is built and operated, and to apply that knowledge to improve reliability, resilience, and long‑term maintainability of the system. This role is ideal for an architect who enjoys staying close to technology, contributing to real design decisions, and shaping how distributed systems are built and run in a modern on‑prem environment.

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, and mean time to recover (MTTR).
• Embed security by design, including zero‑trust networking, mTLS, secrets management, and least privilege 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.

Compensation and Benefits

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. The position is also eligible for the company’s discretionary annual incentive plan. Entrust offers eligible colleagues and their dependents comprehensive health and well‑being programs including 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.

Canada: The pay range for this position is $120,500–$170,500 per year, also eligible for the discretionary annual incentive plan, and comprehensive benefits, vacation, paid time off and paid holidays.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Entrust is an EOE/AA/Veteran/People with Disabilities employer. NO AGENCIES, NO RELOCATION #LI-GR1 #ENT123. 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. If you require an accommodation, contact [e-mail].