Platform Engineering Manager – Infrastructure as Code (Hybrid Environment)

Allstate is a leading insurance company known for its innovative drive over the past 90 years. They are seeking a Platform Engineering Manager to lead the design and evolution of Infrastructure as Code and automation capabilities across a hybrid environment, focusing on enabling engineering teams with scalable and secure infrastructure solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and develop a team of 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

Requirements:

• 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