Senior Platform Architect - On-Prem SaaS & CloudOps

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

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.