Cloud Platform Engineer Manager
allstate
Job Description
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and mentor a dedicated provisioning services team responsible for designing and implementing infrastructure using OpenTofu and other IaC tools.
- Oversee the development and automation of cloud provisioning workflows across Azure, AWS, and GCP.
- Ensure provisioning practices align with security, compliance, and operational standards.
- Drive adoption of immutable infrastructure and as-a-service models across engineering teams.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and evolve infrastructure roadmaps.
- Promote best practices in infrastructure design, including multi-region deployments, high availability, and stateless/stateful architectures.
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and technical excellence within the provisioning domain.
Job Qualifications
- Four-year degree in Computer Science, MIS, or related area, or equivalent work experience
- 5-8+ years of application development and infrastructure engineering experience
- Extensive experience leading engineering teams, conducting performance reviews, facilitating one-on-one coaching sessions, and managing HR-related duties to support team development and organizational alignment
- Terraform Authoring and Operations Professional
- Able to mentor different teams across the various engineering practices including extreme programming, product mindset, cloud/as-a-service approach, and infrastructure as code
- Hands-on style – willingness and competence in producing necessary changes in our infrastructure and processes
- Able to facilitate diverse teams, time zones, multi-task, and work under pressure to meet aggressive schedule targets
- Proven experience leading teams in cloud provisioning and automation, especially with Terraform or OpenTofu.
- Strong understanding of infrastructure lifecycle management, including versioning, testing, and deployment of Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
- Ability to translate business needs into scalable infrastructure solutions.
- Experience mentoring engineers in extreme programming, cloud-native architectures, and IaC principles.
- Able to work effectively across organizational and geographical boundaries
⦁ Identify creative solutions for technical challenges
⦁ Able to communicate effectively across groups of diverse backgrounds
⦁ Ability to communicate and present ideas and solutions