# Sr Principal, Platform Engineering

At Alcon, we are driven by the meaningful work we do to help people see brilliantly. We innovate boldly, champion progress, and act with speed as the global leader in eye care. Here, you’ll be recognized for your commitment and contributions and see your career like never before. Together, we go above and beyond to make an impact in the lives of our patients and customers. We foster an inclusive culture and are looking for diverse, talented people to join Alcon. As a Sr. Principal, Platform Architecture & Engineering, you will lead the technical direction for enterprise platform capabilities across hybrid cloud, datacenter, manufacturing site, and edge environments. This position is located in Fort Worth, Texas. IN THIS ROLE, A TYPICAL DAY WILL INCLUDE: Defining platform architecture strategy across cloud, datacenter, manufacturing, and edge environments. Leading technical direction for cloud platforms, Kubernetes, security, automation, and observability. Developing scalable platform standards, roadmaps, and best practices. Driving Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, CI/CD, and automation initiatives. Partnering with security teams to embed governance, compliance, and risk controls. De

- **Id**: 3738077
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/alcon-sr-principal-platform-engineering>
- **Role**: DevOps
- **Role family**: DevOps
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Fort Worth, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-04T10:37:04Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T02:33:17Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 3
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4599
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Flexible time off
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Surgical Instruments & Devices, Eyewear

## Company

- **Id**: 5809
- **Name**: Alcon
- **Domain**: alcon.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/alcon>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 89
- **Open postings**: 55
- **Ghost share**: 0.055
- **Stale share**: 0.273
- **Repost share**: 0.091
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 29
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Technologies

- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **GitOps** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Amazon EKS** — Optional: yes
- **Ansible** — Optional: yes
- **ArgoCD** — Optional: yes
- **AWS** — Optional: yes
- **Azure** — Optional: yes
- **Azure AKS** — Optional: yes
- **Helm** — Optional: yes
- **Hyper-V** — Optional: yes
- **JavaScript** — Optional: yes
- **OpenShift** — Optional: yes
- **Platform Engineering** — Optional: yes
- **PowerShell** — Optional: yes
- **Python** — Optional: yes
- **Terraform** — Optional: yes
- **VMWare** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 3

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

### Languages

- Language: English; Level: Upper-Intermediate (B2); Optional: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-04T10:37:04Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 4; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 41 · green card filings: 19; Filings 12m: 41

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 2
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: conf:0, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

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