Lead Infrastructure Engineer

US-GA-Dunwoody

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Req #: 44445
Type: Regular Full Time
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				Overview:

Being good neighbors - helping people, investing in our communities, and making the world a better place - is who we are at State Farm. It is at the core of how we operate and the reason for our success. Come join a #1 team and do some good!

HYBRID Qualified candidates must live within a 180-mile radius of a hub location listed below and should plan to spend time working from home and some time working in the office as part of our hybrid work environment.
HUB LOCATIONS: Bloomington, IL; Richardson, TX; Atlanta, GA; or Tempe, AZ

SPONSORSHIP:  Applicants for this position are required to be eligible to lawfully work in the U.S. immediately; employer will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work authorization (e.g. H-1B visa) for this opportunity.

Responsibilities:

We're seeking a highly technical platform engineer with strong communication skills and a DevEx mindset to help make a lasting impact on State Farm's engineering community. You'll deliver a PaaS solution for critical business functionality across areas such as ET (CX areas), End User Computing, and Information Security-work that will have long-term downstream effects for Product Teams and engineers. You'll also contribute to a cohesive, established team with the right mix of collaboration, ownership, and standout soft skills.

In this role, you will architect and enhance the ROSA platform to meet product team needs, design for resilience, and minimize enterprise impact during outages. You'll lead solution design with attention to risk, mitigation, performance, user experience, and testability; participate in sprint planning by estimating and owning development stories; and support automated testing and development as needed. Key technologies include Go, Kubernetes, Terraform, and AWS, along with a strong DevOps mindset spanning the product lifecycle from inception to sunset.

Qualifications:

Desired Skills:

* AWS knowledge and expertise with Lambdas/IAM roles
* Cloud/On-premise networking (basic understanding, troubleshooting experience, communication across AWS accounts)
* Kubernetes knowledge and expertise
* Go programming language - API, CLI development
* Terraform
* CD/CI best practices (experience w/Gitlab)
* Entra ID - OIDC/OAuth2
* Shell scripting
* Knowledge in enterprise application development is plus (not necessarily required)
* Spring/Spring Boot
* React, Angular, etc. (Front-end Frameworks)
* Java / Javascript

* In-depth GitOps/ArgoCD knowledge is a plus
* SPIFFE/SPIRE/ZTWIM knowledge and expertise is a plus

Additional Key Skills & Responsibilities: 

* We need team players that can challenge the status quo
* Strong communication skills, both verbal and written
* Ability to build relationships across various levels of the organization
* Ability to quickly adapt to a changing environment
* Ability to coach and mentor others
* Ability to foster innovation, encourage diversity of thought, and incorporate new ideas
* Desire to provide guidance and set direction for the ROSA technology
* Commitment to software practices of continuous integration and automated testing
* Desire to provide automated solutions for manual processes in place today
* Experience or comfort working in a relaxed, fun, fast paced, startup environment
* Willing to be a self-starter and quick learner
* Experience with agile development practices
* Ability to navigate the organization and collaborate across teams and departments
			
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