Cloud Resiliency Architect - AWS Disaster Recovery

State Farm; Bloomington, Dunwoody, Richardson, Tempe (IL, GA, TX, AZ); Hybrid; USD 97,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual raise and bonus

401(k) with company contributions

Health insurance benefits

Paid time off & holidays

Tuition assistance & education support

Job summary

State Farm in Bloomington, IL is seeking a Lead Infrastructure Engineer to join the Disaster Recovery Engineering (DRE) team. You will advance cloud resiliency and recovery capabilities, primarily with AWS, and collaborate with engineering to validate and improve recoverability.

The role emphasizes automation, observability, and testing across data, compute, and services, with a collaborative, innovative culture and a hybrid work arrangement.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of AWS cloud infrastructure, architecture, and operational practices.
• Experience supporting, troubleshooting, or improving complex cloud-based applications and infrastructure.
• Ability to understand technical architecture diagrams, application workflows, and infrastructure dependencies.
• Experience with infrastructure automation, scripting, or Infrastructure as Code, including the ability to review and troubleshoot existing automation.
• Familiarity with observability and monitoring practices used to understand application health and operational performance.
• Experience collaborating across engineering teams to investigate technical challenges and drive improvements.
• Strong communication, analytical, and problem‑solving skills, with an ability to influence outcomes through collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Partner with application and platform teams to plan, facilitate, and evaluate cloud recovery exercises, validating application and infrastructure recoverability.
• Review cloud architectures, application workflows, and infrastructure dependencies to identify potential recovery challenges and opportunities for improvement.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to investigate and troubleshoot recovery issues, helping identify practical solutions.
• Expand recovery validation beyond compute to include data resiliency, backup and restoration, and critical service dependencies.
• Leverage observability tools and operational metrics to evaluate recovery outcomes, identify gaps, and improve visibility into recovery readiness.
• Identify opportunities to improve recovery processes through automation, standardization, and repeatable engineering practices.
• Partner with software engineers to help shape resiliency tooling, dashboards, automated validation, and self‑service capabilities.
• Contribute to the evolution of enterprise cloud recovery strategies and practices through technical collaboration, experimentation, and continuous improvement.

Skills

AWS cloud infrastructure

Cloud-based apps & infra

Architecture diagrams

Infrastructure as Code

Observability & monitoring

Cross-team collaboration

Communication & problem solving

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Kubernetes/OpenShift

ROSA

Dynatrace/CloudWatch/Grafana/Prometheus/Splunk

Python

CI/CD tooling

Job description

State Farm in Bloomington, IL is seeking a Lead Infrastructure Engineer to join the Disaster Recovery Engineering (DRE) team. You will advance cloud resiliency and recovery capabilities, primarily with AWS, and collaborate with engineering to validate and improve recoverability.

The role emphasizes automation, observability, and testing across data, compute, and services, with a collaborative, innovative culture and a hybrid work arrangement.