Lead Platform Engineer - Hybrid Cloud CI/CD Architect

State Farm; Bloomington, Dunwoody, Richardson, Tempe (IL, GA, TX, AZ); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual raise & bonus

Comprehensive health benefits

Tuition assistance

Job summary

State Farm is seeking a Lead Platform Engineer to design and enhance an enterprise developer platform that simplifies building, testing, securing, and deploying applications. You will work with AWS, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, and GitOps to improve delivery speed and reliability across the organization.

You will collaborate with SRE, security, QA, and product teams to establish standards, mentor engineers, and drive modern platform engineering practices.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience designing, building, or maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Proficiency with cloud infrastructure and automation (AWS & Terraform).
• Knowledge of containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience creating reusable workflows and infrastructure templates.
• Understanding of secure software delivery and access management.
• Experience with Go, JavaScript, or TypeScript is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and enhance enterprise CI/CD platforms for faster software delivery.
• Create reusable pipelines and self-service workflows for developers.
• Improve developer experience by reducing manual steps and deployments.
• Build and optimize CI/CD workflows with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, and related tools.
• Embed security checks and compliance into delivery pipelines.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

GitHub Actions

AWS

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Go/JS/TS

Tools

GitLab CI/CD

ArgoCD

OpenShift/ROSA

Kubernetes templating

Job description

State Farm is seeking a Lead Platform Engineer to design and enhance an enterprise developer platform that simplifies building, testing, securing, and deploying applications. You will work with AWS, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, and GitOps to improve delivery speed and reliability across the organization.

You will collaborate with SRE, security, QA, and product teams to establish standards, mentor engineers, and drive modern platform engineering practices.