Senior Platform Architect (Infrastructure Design, IaaS, Cloud Architecture, F5, Network Security)
Mastercard · Posted Oct 29
Global technology company connecting consumers, financial institutions, merchants, and businesses through secure payment processing and digital commerce solutions
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About the role
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry, connecting and powering an inclusive digital economy across more than 210 countries and territories. The Infrastructure Engineering team designs and evolves secure, scalable, and resilient enterprise infrastructure platforms that power Mastercard's critical business services. This Senior Platform Architect role leads architecture, design, and delivery of highly available infrastructure across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments, driving modernization through automation, Infrastructure-as-Code, and resilient networking and security architecture.
What you will do
- Lead the architecture, design, and delivery of highly available, scalable, and secure enterprise infrastructure solutions across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments.
- Partner with Engineering, Network, Security, Cloud, Database, Middleware, Product, and Program Management teams to develop infrastructure solutions that support business and technology strategies.
- Drive infrastructure solution delivery from initial business engagement through architecture reviews, financial approvals, procurement, implementation, operational readiness, and production deployment.
- Design resilient networking, application delivery, and security architectures utilizing enterprise technologies including load balancing, web application firewalls, API gateways, and distributed infrastructure platforms.
- Lead infrastructure modernization initiatives focused on automation, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), platform standardization, performance optimization, resiliency, and operational excellence.
- Develop enterprise architecture standards, technical roadmaps, and infrastructure documentation while mentoring engineering teams and promoting engineering best practices.
- Ensure infrastructure solutions meet stringent requirements for security, compliance, availability, scalability, disaster recovery, and performance across mission-critical platforms.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 5-9 years of overall career experience in a similar role or Technology
- Deep expertise in enterprise infrastructure architecture across data center, hybrid cloud, and distributed computing environments.
- Advanced knowledge of enterprise networking, application delivery, and infrastructure security, including Zero Trust principles and modern network architectures.
- Experience designing and supporting enterprise platforms utilizing VMware, cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP), load balancing, web application firewalls, API gateways, and distributed infrastructure.
- Strong expertise in infrastructure automation, Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible), CI/CD integration, and configuration management using tools such as Git, Bitbucket, and Jenkins.
- Demonstrated ability to architect and deliver highly available, resilient, and secure infrastructure solutions while collaborating effectively across cross-functional engineering and business teams.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to influence technical and executive stakeholders.
Preferred qualifications
- Expertise in infrastructure performance engineering, including capacity planning, scalability testing, and performance optimization.
- Advanced experience creating technical architecture documentation and executive presentations using Microsoft Visio.
- Experience supporting mission-critical financial services platforms with stringent availability, security, resiliency, and regulatory compliance requirements.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Mastercard
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry that connects consumers, financial institutions, merchants, governments, and businesses worldwide. It operates a fast and secure payment processing network that spans more than 200 countries and territories. Through innovative products and solutions in credit, debit, digital assets, and security, Mastercard makes commerce safer, simpler, and more accessible.
- Industry
- Payments
- Company size
- 10001+ employees
- Founded
- 1966
- Location
- Purchase, New York, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $115M raised
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer
Chief Business Officer
President & Chief Technology Officer
Chief People Officer
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