Principal Azure Cloud & DevOps Platform Engineer at AT&T
Atlanta, GA
$155,400–$261,100from the description
Jul 22, 2026
Atlanta, GA
Jul 23, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior individual-contributor and technical leadership role focused on Azure cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, and DevOps automation for large-scale enterprise systems. Day-to-day work spans designing CI/CD pipelines, building Infrastructure-as-Code, migrating legacy applications to Azure, supporting data platforms such as Snowflake and Databricks, and owning production reliability. The role also involves mentoring engineers and shaping cloud architecture and operational standards across teams.
Senior level · 8+ years · Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA · Full-time
Advertised as Principal, but the requirements read as Senior.
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
Posted 2 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 210 people in the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 150–320
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $135,884 (middle half $106,941–$167,811). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The role is titled 'Principal Systems Engineer' but the scope — 8+ years, leading a workstream, mentoring engineers, owning a platform — is consistent with a Senior band. AT&T's 'Principal' is an internal title tier, not evidence of org-wide technical authority across multiple teams in the Staff/Principal sense used here.
Multiple office locations are listed (Alpharetta GA, Atlanta GA, Plano TX); the CBSA reflects the Georgia locations as the primary posting geography. The role explicitly requires 5 days/week in-office with no relocation offered.
Snowflake and Databricks appear in both the 'What You'll Need' and 'What You'll Bring' sections, making them hard gates despite being data platform support rather than core DevOps skills.
PowerShell, Python, and Bash are presented as interchangeable scripting options ('using PowerShell, Python, or Bash'); one skill is emitted with alternatives accordingly.
Azure DevOps, Jenkins, and GitHub Actions are presented as interchangeable CI/CD tool options ('such as Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or GitHub Actions'); emitted as one skill with alternatives.
Terraform, ARM, and Bicep are presented as interchangeable IaC options; Helm is listed alongside them but is a distinct tool and emitted separately.
Azure certifications and Agile/SAFe experience appear under 'Preferred Qualifications' and are marked accordingly.
The SOC classification is Medium confidence: the role writes and ships IaC and CI/CD automation code (pointing to 15-1252 Software Developers), but also has a strong operational/infrastructure administration dimension (pointing to 15-1244). The primary day-to-day emphasis on building pipelines, IaC, and platform automation tips the classification to 15-1252.
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