# Platform Architect 2

**Company**: Mastercard
**Location**: Dublin, Ireland
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

Mastercard is seeking a Platform Architect 2 to join its Infrastructure Design Engineering team. The successful candidate will be responsible for designing and delivering infrastructure solutions that satisfy member, product, service, and backbone requirements.

Responsibilities:

- Generate requirements, together with other architects, engineers, application teams, and users, to determine that all high-level requirements have been met.

- Create technical documents, logical flows, and models to keep stakeholders informed and in agreement on the application, system, or platform.

- Ensure that all architectural products and products with architectural input are maintained in the most current state.

- Resolve internet architectural and operational problems impacting infrastructure and product availability and performance globally.

- Research and evaluate new technology for possible deployment in Mastercard's infrastructure.

- Implement, manage, and support internet infrastructure components while leveraging current standards and best practices.

- Perform problem diagnosis, performance tuning, capacity planning, and configuration management for Mastercard internet components.

- Assure system stability and future compatibility by monitoring production execution of all relevant systems.

Requirements:

- Thorough knowledge and understanding of network, operating system principles, and web middleware.

- Thorough knowledge in one or more core functions related to internet infrastructure design and/or web administration.

- Advanced knowledge of load balancers and web application firewalls.

- Working knowledge of Database technologies and cloud technologies.

- Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, and strong relationship and collaborative skills.

- Ability to work as a member of a matrix-based, diverse, and geographically distributed project team.

Nice to have skills:

- Application Architecture

- Knowledge of Application Security

- Knowledge of Zero Trust Principles

- Participation in Security Reviews, Architecture Reviews (ARB), Peer Reviews

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## Skills

### Required
- Infrastructure Architecture & Solution Design
- Networking fundamentals
- Protocols & Application routing
- Understanding of Public and Private Cloud
- Middleware technologies (Load Balancers (F5), Microservices, DNS, Application Servers)
- Troubleshooting (Networking)
- Good communication skills (Representing designs during reviews)
- Requirements Gathering (Application requirements, Non-functional requirements (NFR))

### Nice to have
- Application Architecture
- Knowledge of Application Security
- Knowledge of Zero Trust Principles
- Participation in Security Reviews, Architecture Reviews (ARB), Peer Reviews
- YAML based deployments
- Zero Trust Architecture principles
- Network Micro-segmentation

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