Platform Architect II (Middleware Technologies, Load Balancer, Cloud Architecture)
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Mastercard
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As a Platform Architect II, you will analyze and design infrastructure frameworks aligning with operational standards. You will collaborate with application teams and stakeholders from the outset to ensure infrastructure and application architecture meets security, design, and availability standards. A key deliverable is the Technical Architecture Document (TAD), detailing infrastructure designs. You will also be involved in designing and delivering internet infrastructure solutions, resolving architectural and operational issues, and evaluating new technologies for deployment. Responsibilities include generating high-level system requirements, ensuring consistency and completeness, and maintaining architectural products.
You will also manage and support internet infrastructure components, perform problem diagnosis, performance tuning, capacity planning, and configuration management. Monitoring production execution ensures system stability and future compatibility. You may lead regional projects, taking accountability for planning, time and cost control, and resource utilization.
We are seeking candidates with 3-5 years of experience in a similar role or technology. A thorough understanding of network and operating system principles, and web architecture is essential. Deep knowledge of load balancers, firewall policies, failover strategies, and disaster recovery techniques is required. Familiarity with cloud design and architecture is also necessary. Excellent verbal and written communication, collaboration, and organizational skills are crucial for working within diverse, geographically distributed teams. You should be high-energy, proactive, detail-oriented, able to function under pressure, and possess a high degree of initiative and self-motivation. A willingness to learn and embrace challenging opportunities is critical.
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