Senior Infrastructure Automation Engineer (IaC)

Allstate; Northbrook (IL); Remote; USD 91,000 - 154,000; Full time

Job summary

Allstate seeks a hands-on Product Engineer for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) within the Core Engineering & Platforms group. You will design, build, and productize reusable infrastructure solutions to provision, manage, and operate infrastructure through code across enterprise platforms.

You will establish standards, build automation frameworks, implement CI/CD pipelines, and enable self-service infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in Infrastructure as Code principles, patterns, and engineering practices.
• Experience with continuous collaborative pair programming to solve technical challenges.
• Strong experience building infrastructure automation solutions using Ansible, Terraform/OpenTofu, Env0, Puppet, or equivalent platforms.
• Demonstrated success establishing and scaling enterprise infrastructure automation initiatives.
• Strong software engineering mindset with emphasis on maintainability, testing, version control, and automation.
• Experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure deployments.
• Knowledge of Git-based development workflows, branching strategies, pull requests, and code review practices.
• Experience building reusable modules, templates, and shared automation services.
• Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure, networking, security, identity management, and platform services.
• Proven ability to influence engineering teams and drive adoption of technical standards.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands‑on technical execution.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for the enterprise Infrastructure as Code (IaC) strategy, standards, governance, and adoption roadmap.
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable infrastructure automation solutions across omni-hosted platforms.
• Build reusable modules, templates, blueprints, and self-service automation capabilities for infrastructure teams.
• Develop automation using Ansible, Terraform/OpenTofu, Puppet, Rundeck, Python, or related infrastructure automation technologies.
• Apply AI-assisted engineering and Specification-Driven Design practices to improve delivery speed, consistency, and automation quality.
• Understanding of responsible AI practices, security controls, governance, and risk management within enterprise automation platforms.
• Design and develop APIs and integrations that enable infrastructure orchestration, provisioning, and platform services.
• Drive CI/CD, security, compliance, testing, and deployment automation for infrastructure delivery.
• Partner with platform product teams to accelerate IaC adoption and productize infrastructure capabilities.
• Create documentation, reference architectures, training materials, and enablement programs for IaC tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and engineering best practices.
• Leverage cross-domain infrastructure knowledge spanning compute, networking, storage, security, identity, cloud, and infra-services to deliver curated consumer-facing platform products and improve operational resilience.

Skills

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD

Automation

Python programming

Git workflows

Tools

Ansible

Terraform/OpenTofu

Puppet

Rundeck

Env0

Job description

Allstate seeks a hands-on Product Engineer for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) within the Core Engineering & Platforms group. You will design, build, and productize reusable infrastructure solutions to provision, manage, and operate infrastructure through code across enterprise platforms.

You will establish standards, build automation frameworks, implement CI/CD pipelines, and enable self-service infrastructure.