ACI Worldwide
Principal Platform Engineer
Norcross, GA, United States · Principal · Full-time
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About the role
- The Principal Platform Engineer is a senior individual contributor and technical leader responsible for shaping, scaling, and governing ACI's internal platforms as products, not projects.
- This role operates at the intersection of architecture, developer experience, cloud platforms, DevSecOps, and organizational enablement.
- You will define paved roads and golden paths that enable product and delivery teams to move faster with confidence-while operating within clearly defined security, compliance, and financial guardrails.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a technical authority for platform architecture across build‑time and run‑time domains (CI/CD, Kubernetes/OpenShift, cloud infrastructure, secrets, observability, and delivery tooling).
- Define and evolve reference architectures, platform standards, and design guardrails aligned with enterprise security, compliance, and FinOps expectations.
- Lead architectural design reviews and proactively guide teams away from bespoke or non‑scalable solutions.
- Design and maintain golden paths for common developer workflows (build, test, deploy, operate).
- Partner with Product, Client Delivery, and Engineering teams to reduce cognitive load and delivery friction.
- Lead adoption of everything‑as‑code practices (IaC, policy‑as‑code, pipelines, configuration).
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience in software engineering, devops, cloud, or platform engineering roles.
- Deep hands‑on expertise with:
- Proven ability to influence architecture without formal authority.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to explain complex topics to diverse audiences.
Nice to have
- Experience operating platforms at enterprise scale with strong governance requirements.
- Background in customer‑managed or regulated environments.
- Experience defining or operating an Internal Developer Platform (IDP).
- Familiarity with DevSecOps tooling, policy‑as‑code, and FinOps practices.
- Experience contributing to or leading inner‑source initiatives.
- What Success Looks Like
- Platform capabilities are adopted because they are the easiest and safest path, not because they are mandated.
- Product teams ship faster with fewer escalations and less manual intervention.
Skills
- Influence CI/CD standards, testing frameworks, artifact management, and release automation.
- Provide deep expertise in Kubernetes and OpenShift, including multi‑arch, multi‑cloud, and customer‑managed environments.
Compensation
- I n return for your expertise, we offer opportunities for growth, career development, and a competitive compensation and benefits package—all within an innovative and collaborative work environment.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.
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