Lead Cloud Resiliency Engineer

State Farm is seeking a Lead Cloud Resiliency Engineer to help advance cloud resiliency and recovery capabilities across the enterprise. The role involves working with diverse technologies and application architectures, collaborating with engineering teams to solve complex recovery challenges, and shaping how technology recoverability is validated and improved.

What You Will Do

Key responsibilities include partnering with application and platform teams to plan, facilitate, and evaluate cloud recovery exercises, reviewing cloud architectures and infrastructure dependencies to identify potential recovery challenges, and collaborating with engineering teams to investigate and troubleshoot recovery issues.

Why It Might Be a Fit

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.

Requirements

• 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

Benefits

• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Telemedicine
• 24/7 mental health professionals
• Annual raise and bonus
• Robust health and wellbeing programs
• Multiple healthcare plan options
• Industry leading training programs
• Top-notch tuition assistance programs
• Employee resource groups
• Mentoring
• Fertility/IVF/adoption assistance
• College coaching
• National discount programs
• Interactive monthly financial workshops
• Free financial coaching
• Generous time off policies
• Paid holidays
• Celebration day
• Life leave (40 hours/year)
• Bereavement leave
• Community service/education support days
• 401(k) plan with company contributions of up to 7% of your salary