Senior Database Platform Engineer — Cloud & Automation

AT&T; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 155,000 - 261,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision coverage

401(k) plan

Tuition reimbursement program

PTO and Holidays

Parental Leave

Job summary

AT&T is seeking a Principal Systems Engineer in Atlanta to lead the design, automation, and operation of enterprise database platforms across AWS, Azure, and hybrid environments. You will drive IaC initiatives, deployment automation, and platform engineering, partnering with cloud security, migrations, and architecture teams.

The role demands deep infrastructure experience, strong software automation skills, and the ability to guide multiple engineering disciplines while mentoring others.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of systems or cloud platform experience.
• Terraform and IaC development expertise required.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions or similar.

Responsibilities

• Lead Infrastructure-as-Code development and deployment automation.
• Design reusable deployment modules and engineering patterns for enterprise databases.
• Develop automated workflows for cloud-hosted database infrastructure lifecycle management.
• Drive standardization of deployment architectures and patterns.
• Mentor engineers and drive cross-team collaboration.

Skills

Terraform

IaC development

GitHub Actions

AWS services

Oracle

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Linux

Bash

Python

PowerShell

Monitoring/Observability

Troubleshooting

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

GitHub Actions

Terraform (IaC)

CI/CD tooling

Job description

AT&T is seeking a Principal Systems Engineer in Atlanta to lead the design, automation, and operation of enterprise database platforms across AWS, Azure, and hybrid environments. You will drive IaC initiatives, deployment automation, and platform engineering, partnering with cloud security, migrations, and architecture teams.

The role demands deep infrastructure experience, strong software automation skills, and the ability to guide multiple engineering disciplines while mentoring others.