Principal Platform Engineer
ACI Worldwide5 months ago
Norcross, GA, USAStaff+
Responsibilities
- Shape, scale, and govern ACI’s internal platforms as products across build-time and run-time domains.
- Define platform reference architectures, standards, design guardrails, golden paths, roadmaps, ownership models, success metrics, and adoption goals.
- Lead architecture reviews and guide teams toward scalable, cloud-agnostic, hybrid, and secure solutions.
- Create self-service, automated, documented developer workflows for building, testing, deploying, and operating software.
- Lead everything-as-code, infrastructure-as-code, policy-as-code, CI/CD, testing, artifact management, and release automation practices.
- Guide Kubernetes and OpenShift platform support across AWS, Azure, GCP, customer-managed, SaaS, and on-premises environments.
- Define operational tooling for installation, upgrades, health checks, disaster recovery, and secrets rotation.
- Mentor senior and staff-level engineers, support onboarding, promote inner-sourcing, and provide technical stewardship.
- Champion responsible AI-assisted engineering and prototype AI-enabled platform capabilities that improve developer productivity and reliability.
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience in software engineering, DevOps, cloud, or platform engineering roles.
- Deep hands-on expertise with Kubernetes and/or OpenShift, CI/CD systems and SDLC tooling, infrastructure as code, and cloud platforms.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, ARM, or CloudFormation.
- Ability to influence architecture without formal authority and communicate complex topics to diverse audiences.
- Preferred: experience operating enterprise-scale platforms with strong governance requirements.
- Preferred: experience in customer-managed or regulated environments and defining or operating an Internal Developer Platform.
- Preferred: familiarity with DevSecOps tooling, policy-as-code, FinOps practices, and inner-source initiatives.
Benefits
- Opportunities for growth and career development.
- Competitive compensation and benefits package.
- Innovative and collaborative work environment.
- Hybrid work arrangement indicated by the posting.
- Full-time employment in the United States is required.
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About ACI Worldwide
ACI Worldwide builds payment processing and fraud prevention software for banks, merchants, and billers, delivered as on-premise and cloud services. Its portfolio spans real-time payments, card and merchant acquiring, bill payment, and risk management. Founded in 1975 and publicly traded on NASDAQ (ACIW), the company is headquartered in Elkhorn, Nebraska and serves financial institutions and retailers globally.