Lead Cloud Resiliency Engineer

Overview

Being good neighbors – helping people, investing in our communities, and making the world a better place – is who we are at State Farm. It is at the core of how we operate and the reason for our success. We're moving with urgency to become a Next Gen Good Neighbor, with technology that strengthens human connections and enhances the customer experience. As an employee, you'll spend less time navigating systems and more time applying judgment, empathy, and expertise in the moments that matter most.

Hybrid Work Arrangement: A “Hybrid” position means selected candidates will be assigned to a facility and will spend some time working both in the office and from home. For Enterprise Technology, a hybrid work arrangement will require approximately 40% in-office time each month, beginning in late 2027.
HUB LOCATIONS: Richardson, TX; Bloomington, IL; Tempe, AZ; Dunwoody, GA
SPONSORSHIP: Applicants are required to be eligible to lawfully work in the U.S. immediately; employer will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work authorization (e.g., H-1B visa) for this opportunity.

Responsibilities

The Disaster Recovery Engineering (DRE) team is seeking an experienced Lead Infrastructure Engineer to help advance cloud resiliency and recovery capabilities across the enterprise. With AWS as our primary focus, this role offers the opportunity to work across diverse technologies and application architectures, collaborate with engineering teams to solve complex recovery challenges, and help shape how we validate and improve technology recoverability.
We're a collaborative team that values diverse perspectives, technical curiosity, continuous learning, and innovation. We intentionally make time to explore new ideas, improve existing processes, and develop solutions that make a meaningful difference. If you enjoy solving challenging problems, working alongside talented people, and helping teams build more resilient technology, we'd love to hear from you.

Key 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.

Success in this role means helping engineering teams build confidence in their ability to recover from disruptions by making recovery capabilities more thoroughly tested, observable, automated, and repeatable.

Qualifications

Required Skills:

•    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.

Preferred Skills:
•    Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), platform engineering, resiliency engineering, or disaster recovery.
•    Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or multi-cloud environments.
•    Kubernetes or Red Hat OpenShift, including managed cloud offerings such as ROSA.
•    Cloud networking, cross-region architectures, and application recovery patterns.
•    Data resiliency, backup and restoration, or recovery testing.
•    Observability platforms such as Dynatrace, CloudWatch, Grafana, Prometheus, or Splunk.
•    Python, Terraform, CloudFormation, or other infrastructure automation technologies.
•    CI/CD pipelines, operational tooling, or self-service engineering platforms.
•    AI-assisted operations, intelligent monitoring, or automated operational insights.

Our Benefits

Because work-life balance is a priority at State Farm, compensation is based on our standard 38:45-hour work week!

• Potential starting salary range: $97,000 - $130,000
• Starting salary will be based on skills, background, and experience
• High end of the range limited to applicants with significant relevant experience
• Potential yearly incentive pay up to 15% of base salary

At State Farm, we offer more than just a paycheck. Check out our suite of benefits designed to give you the flexibility you need to take care of you and your family!

• Get Paid! On top of our competitive pay, you are eligible for an annual raise and bonus.
• Stay Well! Focus on you and your family’s health with our robust health and wellbeing programs. State Farm pays most of your healthcare premium, and we offer multiple healthcare plan options, including a high deductible plan. All medical plans provide 100% coverage for in-network preventative care, AND you and your family have access to vision, dental, telemedicine, 24/7 mental health professionals, and much more!
• Develop and Grow! Take advantage of educational benefits like industry leading training programs, top-notch tuition assistance programs, employee resource groups, and mentoring.
• Plan Ahead! Plan for those big moments in life with benefits like fertility/IVF/adoption assistance, college coaching, national discount programs, interactive monthly financial workshops, free financial coaching, and more. You can also start a savings account or consider financing through our State Farm Federal Credit Union!
• Take a Little “You” Time! You will have access to our generous time off policies designed so you can plan around holidays, family events, volunteering, or just to take a relaxing day off. With the opportunity to initially earn up to 20 days annually plus parental leave, paid holidays, celebration day, life leave (40 hours/year), bereavement leave, and community service/education support days, there will be plenty of time for you!
• Give Back! We offer several ways to give back through our Matching Gift Program, Good Neighbor Grant Program, and the Employee Assistance Fund.
• Finish Strong! Plan for retirement using free financial advisors and a 401(k) plan with company contributions of up to 7% of your salary.

Visit our State Farm Careers page for more information on our benefits, locations, and the hiring process of joining the State Farm team!