Senior Cloud Platform & Reliability Architect

AT&T; City of Middletown (NY); 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

Adoption Reimbursement

Life and AD&D insurance

Employee discounts

Job summary

AT&T is seeking a Principal Systems Engineer to lead the reliability, security, and scalability of enterprise platforms and cloud services. You will design and evolve critical applications and integrations, enabling event-driven architectures with Kafka and IXBUS across cloud and on‑prem environments.

You will mentor engineers, drive automation, establish governance, and own disaster recovery, CI/CD, and observability initiatives.

Qualifications

• Deep experience designing, operating, and governing enterprise-scale cloud platforms and 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, alerting, 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

Cloud platforms

Containerization

CI/CD pipelines

Observability/monitoring

Security/compliance

Troubleshooting

Leadership by influence

Incident response

Tools

Kafka

IXBUS

Job description

AT&T is seeking a Principal Systems Engineer to lead the reliability, security, and scalability of enterprise platforms and cloud services. You will design and evolve critical applications and integrations, enabling event-driven architectures with Kafka and IXBUS across cloud and on‑prem environments.

You will mentor engineers, drive automation, establish governance, and own disaster recovery, CI/CD, and observability initiatives.