Lead Database Automation and Cloud Infra Engineer

AT&T; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

AT&T is seeking a Lead Systems Engineer within the DAE team to design, develop, test, and support automation provisioning secure, standardized, and database-ready infrastructure across AWS, AWS Outposts, Azure, and hybrid environments. You will lead hands-on efforts and coordinate across multiple engineering teams to deliver scalable database infrastructure solutions.

The role emphasizes Terraform, GitHub Actions, and strong Linux expertise, with collaboration across security, migration, and

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience delivering Infrastructure-as-Code solutions using Terraform.
• 5+ years experience building or supporting CI/CD workflows with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, Jenkins.
• 5+ years experience with AWS infrastructure services such as EC2, EBS, IAM, KMS, SSM, VPC, subnets, security groups, routing, DNS, Secrets Manager, and CloudWatch.
• Strong Linux systems engineering and troubleshooting skills.
• Scripting or programming experience with Bash, Python, PowerShell, or a comparable language.
• Ability to translate technical requirements into implementable engineering stories, acceptance criteria, test cases, and documentation.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain reusable Terraform modules for database-ready infrastructure.
• Build and support GitHub Actions workflows that automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, validation, and teardown.
• Develop automation for EC2 instances, virtual machines, storage, encryption, networking, security groups, IAM roles, identity integration, and supporting database services.
• Create modules that support multiple database products while allowing product-specific compute, storage, filesystem, networking, and OS requirements.
• Maintain common automation components that can be reused across Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and other platforms.
• Improve module reliability through validation, dependency management, error handling, logging, testing, and rerun-safe deployment.

Skills

Terraform

GitHub Actions

CI/CD pipelines

Linux systems engineering

Bash/Python scripting

Infrastructure as Code design

Technical leadership

Problem solving

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Azure DevOps

Jenkins

CloudWatch

Job description

AT&T is seeking a Lead Systems Engineer within the DAE team to design, develop, test, and support automation provisioning secure, standardized, and database-ready infrastructure across AWS, AWS Outposts, Azure, and hybrid environments. You will lead hands-on efforts and coordinate across multiple engineering teams to deliver scalable database infrastructure solutions.

The role emphasizes Terraform, GitHub Actions, and strong Linux expertise, with collaboration across security, migration, and