Lead Infrastructure Engineer

State Farm State Farm · Insurance · Bloomington, IL +3 · Technology and UX

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.

What you'd actually do

  1. architect and enhance the ROSA platform to meet product team needs, design for resilience, and minimize enterprise impact during outages
  2. lead solution design with attention to risk, mitigation, performance, user experience, and testability
  3. participate in sprint planning by estimating and owning development stories
  4. support automated testing and development as needed

Skills

Required

  • Go
  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform
  • AWS
  • DevOps mindset
  • API development
  • CLI development
  • CD/CI best practices
  • Entra ID - OIDC/OAuth2
  • Shell scripting
  • agile development practices
  • continuous integration
  • automated testing

Nice to have

  • AWS knowledge and expertise with Lambdas/IAM roles
  • Cloud/On-premise networking
  • Gitlab
  • enterprise application development
  • Spring/Spring Boot
  • React, Angular, etc. (Front-end Frameworks)
  • Java / Javascript
  • In-depth GitOps/ArgoCD knowledge
  • SPIFFE/SPIRE/ZTWIM knowledge and expertise
  • team players
  • 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
  • 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

What the JD emphasized

  • must live within a 180-mile radius of a hub location
  • 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