Platform Engineering Lead: CI/CD & Secure Delivery

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Hybrid work environment

Competitive compensation

Job summary

State Farm in Bloomington, IL, is seeking a Lead Platform Engineer to design, build, and maintain an enterprise-grade developer platform focused on end-to-end CI/CD across the full SDLC.

You'll apply expertise in GitLab/GitHub Actions, IaC, and secure deployment practices, partnering with engineering, security, and product teams to deliver measurable business impact.

This hybrid role requires living within 180 miles of a hub and participating in a mix of remote and in-office work.

Qualifications

• Senior platform engineering experience
• Strong CI/CD platform design and governance
• Proven ability to mentor engineers and drive adoption of best practices

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain an enterprise-grade developer platform for end-to-end CI/CD across the full SDLC.
• Embed security, quality, and compliance into the platform by design with secrets management and audit logging.
• Document platform standards, runbooks, and enablement for application engineers, SREs, QA, and release management

Skills

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

AWS

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

ArgoCD

KRM

GitLab CI/CD

GitHub Actions

Runners

GitHub Workflows

Tools

GitLab

GitHub

Terraform

Job description

State Farm in Bloomington, IL, is seeking a Lead Platform Engineer to design, build, and maintain an enterprise-grade developer platform focused on end-to-end CI/CD across the full SDLC.

You'll apply expertise in GitLab/GitHub Actions, IaC, and secure deployment practices, partnering with engineering, security, and product teams to deliver measurable business impact.

This hybrid role requires living within 180 miles of a hub and participating in a mix of remote and in-office work.