Principal Reliability & FinOps Engineer - AI Automation

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

Job summary

AT&T in Middletown, NJ seeks a Principal System Engineer to lead FinOps, cloud optimization, system reliability, and AI-driven automation across Azure, AWS, Kubernetes and hybrid-cloud environments.

Translate business priorities into durable technical solutions, influence roadmaps, and drive cost-efficient optimization with measurable value realization. You will mentor engineers and shape enterprise strategies.

Onsite role, five days per week, no relocation offered.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of progressive experience in systems engineering.
• Experience leading cloud optimization, FinOps, and reliability initiatives.
• Strong automation skills and ability to translate business priorities into technical solutions.

Responsibilities

• Provide principal-level technical leadership for resilient, secure, scalable, and cost-efficient platforms across Azure, AWS, Kubernetes, and hybrid-cloud environments.
• Lead FinOps and infrastructure optimization, including cost allocation, forecasting, rightsizing, and waste reduction.
• Develop policy-driven optimization workflows and governance processes with end-to-end execution and reporting.
• Apply automation using Python, PowerShell, Bash, REST APIs, Azure Functions, and automation tools to reduce manual toil.
• Design AI-driven automation solutions for engineering operations, cost analysis, anomaly investigation, and executive reporting.
• Establish cloud-governance guardrails and policy-as-code controls aligned with security and compliance.
• Engineer secure identity models with RBAC, managed identities, and least-privilege access.
• Integrate optimization with Terraform, GitHub, Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring platforms.
• Advance reliability practices, observability, SLOs, capacity planning, and incident prevention.
• Build dashboards and scorecards communicating cloud spend, reliability, and realized savings.

Skills

Systems Engineering

Cloud & FinOps

Automation

Python

PowerShell/Bash

Tools

Azure

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

GitHub/Azure DevOps

Job description

AT&T in Middletown, NJ seeks a Principal System Engineer to lead FinOps, cloud optimization, system reliability, and AI-driven automation across Azure, AWS, Kubernetes and hybrid-cloud environments.

Translate business priorities into durable technical solutions, influence roadmaps, and drive cost-efficient optimization with measurable value realization. You will mentor engineers and shape enterprise strategies.

Onsite role, five days per week, no relocation offered.