Senior Platform Architect, Infrastructure & Cloud Operations

Entrust
Ottawa, Dallas
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 149,578 - 219,381 annuallyFunction: DevOps, Cloud & InfrastructureExperience: 8+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Architecture","Design","Communication","Leadership"]

Senior Platform Architect responsible for designing and evolving a modern on-prem SaaS platform with distributed microservices, VMware-hosted Windows workloads moving toward containerization. Partners with Engineering, Infrastructure, and CloudOps to define platform architecture, deployment patterns, and guardrails, while ensuring 99.9% availability, scalability, performance, and security. Drives GitOps, CI/CD capabilities, and incident readiness to improve reliability and developer experience.

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Entrust
Entrust
3 months ago

Senior Platform Architect, Infrastructure & Cloud Operations

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Job Summary

Senior Platform Architect responsible for designing and evolving a modern on-prem SaaS platform with distributed microservices, VMware-hosted Windows workloads moving toward containerization. Partners with Engineering, Infrastructure, and CloudOps to define platform architecture, deployment patterns, and guardrails, while ensuring 99.9% availability, scalability, performance, and security. Drives GitOps, CI/CD capabilities, and incident readiness to improve reliability and developer experience.
Location: Ottawa, Dallas
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: DevOps, Cloud & Infrastructure
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key 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 and enable progressive deployment models (canary, blue/green, rolling) with automated rollback

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 149,578 - 219,381 annually

Key Requirements

  • •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 similar
  • •Proven experience designing distributed systems with emphasis on availability, scalability, resilience, and performance
  • •Strong knowledge of microservices architecture, API design, and service communication patterns
  • •Excellent written and verbal communication skills with ability to document and explain complex system designs
Experience:8+ yearsDistributed systemsEnterprise software
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:ArchitectureDesignCommunicationLeadership
Tech Stack:VMwareWindowsMicroservicesContainersCI/CDGitOps

Company Brief

Entrust
Provides identity, authentication, and secure transaction solutions including public key infrastructure (PKI), digital certificates, encryption, and secure issuance for payments, mobile, and enterprise environments to protect digital identities and critical communications.
Industry: Cybersecurity
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Established Company
Funding: Private Equity Backed
Headquarters: Minneapolis, United States
Founded: 1994
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