State Farm’s business success hinges on adopting cutting-edge IT capabilities and migrating our existing tech stack to the cloud. We are hiring an experienced Cloud Platform Engineer to join our amazing engineering team who can automate platform enablement and partner with application owners to solve complicated technical and operational challenges that result in resilient, secure, and scalable capabilities in the cloud. State Farm has over 5,000 on-premises Windows workloads that need to be migrated to the cloud. There is no shortage of challenging and rewarding work to help State Farm realize its cloud first strategy.

Azure platform enablement priorities center around our customers – application owners working with cloud technologies for the first time. Our goal is to automate and provision platform resources in a way that allows them to focus on business functionality and encourages cloud adoption best practices. To achieve this goal, the focus is to understand application owner challenges and create platform enablement solutions that allow for quick and easy consumption.

If you are passionate about cloud technologies and looking for a challenging yet rewarding role, we would love to hear from you. Apply now to join our innovative team at State Farm!

Visit our Careers page for more information on our benefits, locations and the process of joining the State Farm team!

We are looking for a highly technical engineer with excellent communication skills and a Sec/Dev/FinOps mindset who will build and support cloud platform capabilities that simplify and enable the Azure platform. The team is writing the playbook as we build, which requires innovative thinking, active product discovery, creative solutions, and maintaining close communication with customers to understand friction points and opportunities for improvement. As a mid to senior level contributor, you are expected to educate and coach stakeholders and model mature engineering and leadership competencies.

Essential Skills

• Deep knowledge and experience in designing, deploying, and supporting cloud platform infrastructure
• Strong understanding of cloud and on-premises networking concepts (experience in this area is highly desired)
• Information Security Awareness and best practices
• Identity and Access Management concepts
• Hands-on experience in cloud enablement and support, preferably with Azure
• Proficiency with Windows Server and Client platforms/operating systems, including capabilities used for building, maintaining, and monitoring them
• Terraform
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, HCL, or PowerShell
• Strong understanding of CI/CD best practices (experience with GitLab is a plus)
• Knowledge/expertise in GitOps deployments
• Entra ID – OIDC

Education:

• A degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, with a minimum of 5 years of cloud platform experience
• Ongoing track record of continuous learning and personal development

HYBRID: Qualified candidates (in or near hub locations listed below) should plan to spend time working from home and some time working in the office as part of our hybrid work environment.

HUB LOCATIONS: Dunwoody, GA; Richardson, TX; Tempe, AZ; or Bloomington, IL

REMOTE: Qualified candidates (outside of hub locations listed below) may be considered for remote work arrangements based on where a candidate currently resides or is currently located.

SPONSORSHIP: Applicants 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

For Los Angeles candidates: Pursuant to the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories.

For San Francisco candidates: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

For Colorado, Hawaii and Washington State candidates: Salary Range: $90,600-$156,200

For California, New York, and CT candidates: Potential salary range: $90,600-$177,500

Potential yearly incentive pay: up to 15% of base salary

Competitive Benefits, including:

• 401k Plan
• Health Insurance
• Dental/Vision plans
• Life Insurance
• Paid Time Off
• Annual Merit Increases
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Health Initiatives
• For more details visit our benefits summary page

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