Senior Platform Architect – Cloud, Kafka & 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

Paid Time Off and Holidays

Paid Parental Leave

Paid Caregiver Leave

Additional sick leave

Adoption Reimbursement

Disability Benefits

Life and AD&D insurance

Supplemental benefit programs

EAP

Wellness programs

Employee discounts

Job summary

AT&T is seeking a Principal Systems Engineer to lead the reliability, security, scalability, and governance of enterprise platforms and cloud services. You will design and evolve platforms, providing technical leadership for Kafka and IXBUS to enable real-time data exchange and enterprise integration across cloud and on-prem environments.

You will drive automation, modernization, and operational excellence while mentoring senior engineers and collaborating with cross-functional teams across

Qualifications

• 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, 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.

Skills

Enterprise platforms

Cloud governance

CI/CD pipelines

Monitoring & observability

Security controls

Incident management

Leadership by influence

Cross-functional collaboration

Mentoring

Cost optimization

Tools

Kafka

IXBUS

Job description

AT&T is seeking a Principal Systems Engineer to lead the reliability, security, scalability, and governance of enterprise platforms and cloud services. You will design and evolve platforms, providing technical leadership for Kafka and IXBUS to enable real-time data exchange and enterprise integration across cloud and on-prem environments.

You will drive automation, modernization, and operational excellence while mentoring senior engineers and collaborating with cross-functional teams across