Entrust · 19 hours ago
Senior Cloud Platform Architect
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
8+ years expEntrust keeps the world moving safely by enabling trusted identities, payments and data protection around the globe. They are seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Architect to design and validate systems that meet strict requirements for availability, scalability, performance, and security in a modern on-premises SaaS platform.
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Hiring Manager
Grace Rusingiza
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 performance budgets, SLOs, and capacity headroom for peak traffic and failure scenarios
Define SLOs, SLIs and error budgets and ensure they inform deployment, scaling, and incident response
Drive infrastructure‑as‑code and GitOps practices to ensure consistent, repeatable environments
Define and enable progressive deployment models (canary, blue/green, rolling) with automated rollback
Build platform and CI/CD capabilities that directly improve (deployment frequency, lead time for changes, change failure rate, mean time to recover MTTR)
Embed security by design, including zero‑trust networking, mTLS, secrets management, and least‑privilege access
Establish standard observability for metrics, logs, traces, and health signals across the platform
Enable operational and incident response readiness, including runbooks, failure testing, and automated remediation
Act as the technical authority for platform architecture decisions and trade‑offs
Partner with engineering teams to onboard services and ensure alignment with platform standards
Provide reference architectures, patterns, and guidance that improve developer experience and delivery speed
Qualification
Required
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 a role in similar capacity
Proven experience designing distributed systems with an emphasis on availability, scalability, resilience, and performance
Demonstrated expertise in microservices architecture, API design, and service‑to‑service communication patterns
Strong knowledge of system design principles including fault tolerance, capacity planning, dependency isolation, and failure handling
Experience leading or contributing to architecture reviews, technical design discussions, and cross team initiatives
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly document and explain complex system designs
Company
Entrust
Entrust offers identity-based security software and services.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
unknown2013-12-17Acquired
1998-08-18IPO
Leadership Team
Todd Wilkinson
President & Chief Executive Officer
John Grimm
Vice President of Strategic Alliances
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