Senior Principal Infrastructure Engineer/Advisor

Truist Bank • Charlotte, NC

14d

About The Position

We are seeking a highly skilled and hands-on Senior Platform Engineer to help engineer and scale enterprise-grade platform services that power consistent, secure, and compliant software delivery. This role focuses on designing, building, and maintaining foundational platform capabilities—including change automation, asset lifecycle tracking, policy-as-code controls, and automated testing infrastructure—that enable high-velocity teams to deliver safely in regulated environments. The ideal candidate brings a software engineering mindset to platform problems, a deep understanding of declarative automation patterns, and experience working across platform domains to deliver reusable, standardized capabilities.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree and eight years of experience in development or production support or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Deep specialized and/or broad functional knowledge.
• Sound understanding of business and organizational strategies and processes.
• Ability to interpret internal and external business challenges and recommend best practices.
• Ability to lead complex projects.
• Sophisticated analytical skills and the ability to solve complex technical and business problems.
• Ability to influence others at senior levels to adopt a new perspective.

Nice To Haves

• Hands-on experience with platform infrastructure tools such as: Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Backstage, Kustomize
• Experience building automated workflows for change, asset, or compliance lifecycle management in regulated environments.
• Demonstrated success implementing policy-as-code solutions in CI/CD pipelines (e.g., OPA, Kyverno, Sentinel).
• Proficiency in at least one scripting or infrastructure language (e.g., Python, Go, TypeScript, Bash).
• Understanding of audit and regulatory control requirements in industries like finance, healthcare, or insurance (e.g., SOX, FFIEC, NIST 800-53/137).
• Strong communication and documentation skills, with a track record of collaborating across platform, security, and compliance domains.
• Experience integrating with enterprise CMDBs, asset discovery tools, or telemetry-driven asset classification solutions.
• Familiarity with ServiceNow Change & Asset modules, or similar ITSM platforms, and experience driving automation around them.
• Experience developing or contributing to internal developer platforms (IDPs) or developer onboarding scaffolding.
• Prior contributions to reusable platform scaffolding, controller patterns, or GitOps operator frameworks.
• Experience with compliance-as-code, GRC tooling integration, or mapping code-based controls to enterprise risk frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Performs problem tracking, diagnosis and root-cause analysis, replication, troubleshooting, and resolution for highly complex issues.
• In this capacity, oversees others who perform programming and debugging activities.
• Responds to issues in a timely manner by receiving and investigating incidents or service tickets.
• Provides technical consultation on extremely challenging or unusual situations.
• May lead large, complex projects related to improving processes or support capabilities.
• May engage and mange external vendors.
• Interprets internal/external business challenges and recommends best practices.
• Uses sophisticated analytical thought to exercise judgment and identify innovative solutions.
• Mentors less experienced teammates to build technical expertise.
• May have people management responsibilities.

Benefits

• All regular teammates (not temporary or contingent workers) working 20 hours or more per week are eligible for benefits, though eligibility for specific benefits may be determined by the division of Truist offering the position.
• Truist offers medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability, accidental death and dismemberment, tax-preferred savings accounts, and a 401k plan to teammates.
• Teammates also receive no less than 10 days of vacation (prorated based on date of hire and by full-time or part-time status) during their first year of employment, along with 10 sick days (also prorated), and paid holidays.
• Depending on the position and division, this job may also be eligible for Truist’s defined benefit pension plan, restricted stock units, and/or a deferred compensation plan.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees