Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Allstate is a leading insurance company known for its innovative drive over the past 90 years. They are seeking a Platform Engineering Manager to lead the design and evolution of Infrastructure as Code and automation capabilities across a hybrid environment, focusing on enabling engineering teams with scalable and secure infrastructure solutions.
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop a team of infrastructure engineers in defining and execute the IaC and platform automation strategy aligned with enterprise modernization goals
- Partner with application, security, network, and enterprise architecture teams
- Drive adoption of engineering best practices, automation, and platform standardization
- Lead the implementation and scaling of Infrastructure as Code using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, PowerShell, or equivalent
- Develop and maintain reusable modules and templates for on-prem infrastructure
- Reduce manual provisioning through automation and self-service capabilities
- Promote infrastructure as product mindset across teams
- Enable and support infrastructure across cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) and on-prem environments
- Support the transition toward cloud-first infrastructures and hybrid architecture patterns
- Collaborate with infrastructure teams managing compute, storage, virtualization, and networking platforms
- Enhance and support CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
- Enable teams to deliver infrastructure through versioned, tested, and auditable pipelines
- Promote automation across the development and operations lifecycle
- Improve platform observability, monitoring, and alerting capabilities
- Support incident response and production issue resolution
- Drive improvements in resiliency, uptime, and operational efficiency
- Balance technical lifecycle activities with ongoing delivery needs
- Incorporate security best practices such as least privilege access and secrets management
- Ensure infrastructure aligns with enterprise governance and regulatory requirements
- Partner with security and risk teams to enable secure-by-design platforms
Skills
- 7 years or more of experience in infrastructure, DevOps, or platform engineering (or equivalent)
- 2 years or more of leadership or team management experience (or equivalent)
- Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform preferred)
- Experience working in cloud environments (AWS and/or Azure)
- Experience supporting or operating within a hybrid infrastructure environment
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, version control, and automation practices
- Familiarity with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Proficiency in scripting (Python, Bash, or similar)
- Strong understanding of enterprise infrastructure, networking fundamentals, and distributed systems
- Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Experience working with on-prem infrastructure (e.g., VMware, data center environments) and automating (creating self service) for highly requested services
- Exposure to network and application delivery platforms (e.g., load balancers like F5, ALB, NLB) – partnership-level, not required expertise
- Exposure to DNS infrastructure
- Background in platform engineering or internal developer platforms
- Exposure to cost optimization initiatives related to automating services
Benefits
- Allstate provides a comprehensive technology setup, including a laptop, monitors, headset, keyboard, and mouse.
- Employees eligible to work from home also receive a monthly connectivity reimbursement to help offset internet costs.
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