5 months ago
Ottawa, Canada or Dallas, TX, USASenior
Base Salary
$150k - $219k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own availability architecture across compute, network, storage, data, and application tiers to exceed 99.9% service availability.
- Design fault domains, placement strategies, graceful degradation, capacity headroom, and failure-handling approaches.
- Eliminate single points of failure across infrastructure, networking, identity, secrets, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Define SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, performance budgets, and capacity plans that inform deployments, scaling, and incident response.
- Drive infrastructure as code, GitOps, canary, blue/green, rolling deployment, and automated rollback capabilities.
- Build platform and CI/CD capabilities that improve deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, and mean time to recover.
- Embed security by design through zero trust networking, mTLS, secrets management, and least-privilege access.
- Establish observability for metrics, logs, traces, and health signals and enable operational readiness through runbooks, failure testing, and automated remediation.
- Serve as the technical authority for platform architecture decisions and partner with engineering teams on service onboarding and platform standards.
- Provide reference architectures, design patterns, and guidance that improve developer experience and delivery speed.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- 8+ years of related experience as a platform, solutions, or system design architect, software engineer, senior DevOps engineer, or in a similar capacity.
- Proven experience designing distributed systems with emphasis on availability, scalability, resilience, and performance.
- Demonstrated expertise in microservices architecture, API design, and service-to-service communication patterns.
- Strong knowledge of 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, including the ability to document and explain complex system designs.
Benefits
- US base pay is $149,578-$219,381 per year; Canadian pay is $120,500-$170,500 per year, with eligibility for a discretionary annual incentive plan.
- Eligible colleagues and dependents may receive medical, vision, dental, 401(k) matching, life and disability insurance, mental health coaching, virtual fitness programs, paid personal time off, paid holidays, parental leave, and education reimbursement.
- The company offers remote, hybrid, or on-site work options depending on the role and location.
- Entrust provides career growth initiatives, learning opportunities, diversity and inclusion programs, and global affinity groups.
Tech Stack
Windows
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