Senior Platform Architect, Infrastructure & Cloud Operations

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 infrastructureascode 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 zerotrust networking, mTLS, secrets management, and leastprivilege 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 tradeoffs
• 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.
• Basic Qualifications:
• 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