Overview:

Do you crave innovation and want to work for a company that is the BEST at what they do in the industry? Does the opportunity to work in a hybrid environment and maintaining a work life balance appeal to you? Then we have the perfect job for you! We are seeking infrastructuresoftware engineers who push the envelope and strive to create the best product possible. This position will allow you to utilize different technologies, languages, and frameworks to drive solutions while working on inclusive teams that foster diversity of thought. You will be provided opportunities via in house training programs for upskilling to support your development and career goals!

Work Arrangements: 

HYBRID: Qualified candidates (in or near hub locations listed below) should plan to spend time working from home and some time working in the office as part of our hybrid work environment.

HUB LOCATIONS:  Dunwoody, GA; Richardson, TX; Tempe, AZ; or Bloomington, IL

Incumbency: This position will have a 12-month incumbency period, beginning on the effective date of the position, which must be met before the employee can post for any other lateral State Farm position. Employees may be considered for leadership or Technology Engineer openings at any time, and a promotional position within the same job structure (i.e. Professional/Technical or Para-professional/Support) after 6 months from the effective date of the position. In these cases, the remaining incumbency would be waived. The incumbency period does not affect the at-will relationship between State Farm and the employee and does not create an employment contract, nor contractual rights.

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:

Want to work with new technology, on a high caliber platform engineering team, and in a fast-paced environment? This position will be highly visible and calls for close collaboration across many different teams and departments here at State Farm. This team will have A LOT of visibility as we continuously mature and improve the ROSA (Red Hat OpenShift on AWS) technology. The enablement, integration and support work will be challenging, help further develop your engineering skillset, and be very rewarding.

We are looking for a highly technical engineer, with great communication skills, and a strong DevEx mindset that can help make a real difference for the engineering community at State Farm. This work will have downstream effects for Product Teams and Engineers for years to come as we deliver a PaaS solution for critical business functionality and features across business areas, End User Computing, Information Security, etc. We are also looking for our new engineer to display desired soft skills that adds flare to our very cohesive and established team.

• Participates in sprint planning; provides work estimates to deliver product stories; owns development stories

• Develops solutions on variety of platforms according to business requirements

• Completes required coding to satisfy the defined acceptance criteria and deliver desired outcome

• Leads solution design, considering risks, mitigations, performance, user experience, and testability

• Assists in development of automated testing and supports code as necessary

• Utilizes agile software development practices, data and testing standards, code reviews, source code management, continuous delivery, and software architecture

• Participates in the full software development cycle including coding, testing, implementation, support and sunset

• Considers applying emerging technology solutions to increase efficiency and effectiveness; expectation of continuous innovation

• Exhibits DevOps mindset where team is accountable for product from inception to sunset

Qualifications:

Desired Skills:

• Deep knowledge/expertise with Red Hat OpenShift on AWS (ROSA)

• AWS knowledge and expertise with EKS/ECS/lambdas/IAM roles

• Cloud/On-premise networking (basic understanding, troubleshooting experience, communication across AWS accounts)

• Kubernetes knowledge and expertise

• Go programming language - API, CLI development

• Terraform

• CI/CD best practices (experience w/Gitlab)

• Knowledge / expertise in GitOps deployments

• Entra ID - OIDC/OAuth2

• Shell scripting

• Knowledge in enterprise application development is plus (not necessarily required)

• Spring/Spring Boot

• React, Angular, etc. (Front-end Frameworks)

• Java / Javascript

• In-depth GitOps/ArgoCD knowledge is also plus

Additional Key Skills & Responsibilities:

• We need team players that can challenge the status quo

• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written

• Ability to build relationships across various levels of the organization

• Ability to quickly adapt to a changing environment

• Ability to coach and mentor others

• Ability to foster innovation, encourage diversity of thought, and incorporate new ideas

• Desire to provide guidance and set direction for the ROSA technology

• Commitment to software practices of continuous integration and automated testing

• Desire to provide automated solutions for manual processes in place today

• Experience or comfort working in a relaxed, fun, fast paced, startup environment

• Willing to be a self-starter and quick learner

• Experience with agile development practices

• Ability to navigate the organization and collaborate across teams and departments