Principal Systems Engineer: Enterprise Platform & Cloud

AT&T; Bedminster Township (NJ); On-site; USD 155,000 - 261,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision coverage

401(k) plan

Tuition reimbursement program

Paid Time Off and Holidays

Paid Parental Leave

Paid Caregiver Leave

Adoption Reimbursement

Disability Benefits

Life and Accidental Death Insurance

Employee discounts on AT&T plans

Job summary

AT&T is seeking a Principal Systems Engineer to lead reliability, security, and scalability of critical enterprise platforms and cloud services from multiple locations including Bedminster, NJ and Alpharetta, GA. You will design, architect, and evolve enterprise-grade applications while guiding cross-functional teams across Engineering, Security, and Operations.

The role emphasizes automation, modernization, and governance, with strong focus on CI/CD, observability, and disaster recovery.

Qualifications

• Deep experience designing, operating, and governing enterprise-scale platforms and cloud infrastructure.
• 7+ years of cloud platforms, infrastructure services, platform engineering, and cloud governance practices.
• Experience with containerized workloads, orchestration platforms, microservices architectures, and cloud-native deployment patterns.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, release automation, artifact management, infrastructure automation, and deployment governance.
• Experience with monitoring, observability, logging, service health, and operational telemetry strategies.
• Strong knowledge of security controls, access governance, role-based access management, separation of duties, and compliance practices.
• Experience leading platform upgrades, lifecycle management, migration planning, disaster recovery, and resiliency improvements.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across infrastructure, application platforms, integrations, networking, and operational workflows.
• Ability to define standards for SOPs, runbooks, operational playbooks, technical documentation, and support readiness.
• Working knowledge of cost optimization, capacity planning, license management, and technology lifecycle planning.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the senior technical leader and primary platform steward for critical enterprise platforms and cloud services.
• Define and influence platform strategy, technical direction, architecture alignment, and long-term modernization roadmaps.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives across Engineering, Operations, Architecture, Cybersecurity, Support, and business stakeholders.
• Establish and promote engineering standards, operational best practices, automation principles, and platform governance models.
• Own platform reliability, scalability, resiliency, lifecycle planning, operational readiness, and business continuity posture.
• Lead compliance, cybersecurity, access governance, risk-management, and audit-readiness initiatives.
• Drive automation-first approaches across infrastructure, deployments, operational workflows, support processes, and self-service capabilities.
• Provide strategic oversight for CI/CD pipeline governance, release standards, artifact management, infrastructure automation, and deployment maturity.
• Lead observability, monitoring, alerting, logging, and service health strategies to improve operational visibility and reduce incident impact.
• Act as the highest-level escalation point for complex technical issues, major incidents, and platform-impacting events.
• Lead root cause analysis, problem management, corrective action planning, and prevention of recurring issues.
• Guide capacity planning, cloud cost optimization, licensing strategy, technology lifecycle management, and platform sustainability.
• Own disaster recovery strategy, planning, exercises, documentation, and continuous improvement.
• Mentor senior engineers and technical leads, helping raise the engineering maturity of the broader organization.
• Influence decisions without direct authority by building alignment, communicating tradeoffs, and driving consensus.

Skills

Enterprise platforms

Cloud infrastructure

Containerization

CI/CD pipelines

Observability

Security controls

Disaster recovery

Leadership

Executive communication

Job description

AT&T is seeking a Principal Systems Engineer to lead reliability, security, and scalability of critical enterprise platforms and cloud services from multiple locations including Bedminster, NJ and Alpharetta, GA. You will design, architect, and evolve enterprise-grade applications while guiding cross-functional teams across Engineering, Security, and Operations.

The role emphasizes automation, modernization, and governance, with strong focus on CI/CD, observability, and disaster recovery.