Senior Platform Engineer – Enterprise Cloud & Reliability

AT&T; Middletown (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

Disability Benefits

Employee discounts up to 50% on AT&T

Job summary

AT&T is seeking a Principal Systems Engineer to lead reliability, security, and modernization of enterprise platforms and cloud services from Alpharetta, Bedminster, Middletown, and other listed locations. You will design, architect, and evolve enterprise-grade applications, platforms, and integration services across cloud and on-prem environments.

You will guide automation, CI/CD governance, observability, and incident response while mentoring engineers and collaborating with security,

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, and operational telemetry strategies.
• Strong knowledge of security controls, access governance, and compliance practices.
• Experience leading platform upgrades, lifecycle management, disaster recovery, and resiliency improvements.

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

Cloud platforms

CI/CD pipelines

Security controls

Observability

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Incident management

Tools

Kafka

IXBUS

Job description

AT&T is seeking a Principal Systems Engineer to lead reliability, security, and modernization of enterprise platforms and cloud services from Alpharetta, Bedminster, Middletown, and other listed locations. You will design, architect, and evolve enterprise-grade applications, platforms, and integration services across cloud and on-prem environments.

You will guide automation, CI/CD governance, observability, and incident response while mentoring engineers and collaborating with security,