Senior Principal Infrastructure Engineer/Advisor

Truist • Raleigh, NC

96d

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.
• 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 manage 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

• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability, accidental death and dismemberment.
• Tax-preferred savings accounts.
• 401k plan.
• No less than 10 days of vacation during the first year of employment.
• 10 sick days.
• Paid holidays.
• Defined benefit pension plan, restricted stock units, and/or a deferred compensation plan may be available.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees