Senior Platform Architect (Infrastructure Design, IaaS, Cloud Architecture, F5, Network Security)

Overview

Lead the design and evolution of secure, scalable, and resilient enterprise infrastructure platforms that power Mastercard's critical business services.

What you'll 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.

What you'll need

• 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.

Nice to have

• 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.

Details

• Location: Pune, India.