Platform Engineering Manager – Infrastructure as Code (Hybrid Environment)

At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life’s uncertainties. And for more than 90 years, our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers’ evolving needs. From advocating for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws, to being an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, and, more recently, device and identity protection. 

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• Lead and develop a team of p 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

• 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.

• Infrastructure provisioning is automated, consistent, and repeatable

• Engineering teams have access to self-service infrastructure platforms

• Systems are resilient, observable, and easier to operate at scale

• Infrastructure is managed as version-controlled, auditable code

• The organization progresses toward a cloud-forward, modern platform architecture

• 7 or more years of experience (Preferred)

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