Platform Architect 2

About the role

Mastercard is hiring a Platform Architect 2 in its Infrastructure Design Engineering team in Dublin. The team analyses and designs the infrastructure framework for applications, platforms and systems in line with Mastercard's operational standards, working with application teams and other stakeholders from the start of the design phase. The main deliverable is the Technical Architecture Document (TAD). The role suits someone with experience in internet fundamentals such as web servers, application servers, internet security and other internet technologies.

Key responsibilities

• Generate requirements with architects, engineers, application teams and users, and produce TADs, technical documents, logical flows and models
• Keep architectural products up to date and resolve internet architectural and operational issues affecting availability and performance
• Research and evaluate new technologies for possible deployment in Mastercard's infrastructure
• May lead regional projects end-to-end, including planning, time and cost control, resource use and implementation
• Implement, manage and support internet infrastructure components, and perform troubleshooting, performance tuning, capacity planning and configuration management
• Monitor production systems to assure stability and future compatibility

Required profile

• 1-3 years of experience for a senior role
• Thorough knowledge of network and operating system principles and web middleware
• Working knowledge of database and cloud technologies
• Knowledge of Zero Trust Architecture and Network Micro-segmentation
• Experience with YAML-based deployments
• High energy, proactive, detail-oriented, able to work independently under pressure
• Strong verbal and written communication and collaboration skills in matrixed, geographically distributed teams

Required skills

• Networking fundamentals, protocols and application routing
• Public and private cloud understanding
• Middleware technologies: load balancers (F5), microservices, DNS, application servers
• Requirements gathering, including non-functional requirements
• Nice to have: application architecture, application security, Zero Trust principles, participation in security and architecture reviews
• Tooling: Visio or DrawIO