Senior Platform Reliability Engineer – Cloud & Kafka

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision coverage

401(k) plan

Paid Time Off and Holidays

Tuition reimbursement

Parental Leave

Adoption Reimbursement

Disability Benefits

Employee wellness programs

Employee discounts

Job summary

AT&T is seeking a Principal Systems Engineer to lead reliability, security, and scalable enterprise platforms and cloud services. You will architect and evolve mission-critical systems, drive automation, and guide multi-team efforts across Engineering, Cybersecurity, Operations, and Support.

This role requires strategic thinking, strong execution, and mentorship of senior engineers. Location-driven responsibilities include governance, DR planning, and cost optimization, with a focus on

Qualifications

• Deep experience designing, operating, and governing enterprise-scale platforms and cloud infrastructure.
• 7+ years of cloud platforms, infrastructure services, platform engineering, and 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, and operational telemetry strategies.
• Security controls, access governance, and compliance practices.
• Experience leading platform upgrades, lifecycle management, and disaster recovery.

Responsibilities

• Serve as senior platform leader for critical enterprise platforms and cloud services.
• Define platform strategy, architecture alignment, and modernization roadmaps.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives across Engineering, Operations, Architecture, Cybersecurity and Support.
• Establish engineering standards, automation principles, and governance models.
• Own platform reliability, scalability, resiliency, and business continuity.
• Drive automation-first approaches across infrastructure, deployments, and workflows.
• Oversee CI/CD governance, release standards, and deployment maturity.
• Lead observability and incident response strategies to reduce impact.
• Mentor engineers, guide capacity planning and cost optimization.

Skills

Enterprise platforms

Cloud infrastructure

CI/CD

Observability

Security controls

Incident response

Leadership by influence

SOPs/runbooks

Cost optimization

Vendor management

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD tools

Monitoring tools

Job description

AT&T is seeking a Principal Systems Engineer to lead reliability, security, and scalable enterprise platforms and cloud services. You will architect and evolve mission-critical systems, drive automation, and guide multi-team efforts across Engineering, Cybersecurity, Operations, and Support.

This role requires strategic thinking, strong execution, and mentorship of senior engineers. Location-driven responsibilities include governance, DR planning, and cost optimization, with a focus on