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Come join a #1 team and do some good!\r\nHYBRID:Qualified candidates must live or relocate within a 180-mile radius of a hub location listed below and should plan to spend time working from home and some time working in the office as part of our hybrid work environment.\r\nHUB LOCATIONS:Bloomington, IL ; Richardson, TX ; Dunwoody, GA ; Tempe, AZ\r\nSPONSORSHIP:Applicants for this position 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.\r\nGrow Your Skills, Grow Your PotentialResponsibilitiesWe are seeking a highly experienced Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer to help establish and lead engineering enablement capabilities for our Contact Center technology ecosystem.\r\nThis role will be a key member of a new Contact Center Central Platform Engineering capability focused on accelerating software delivery across multiple product teams through standardization, automation, reusable engineering capabilities and developer self-service.\r\nThe engineer will partner closely with product engineers, architecture, SRE and other technology teams to create developer platforms, golden paths, reusable CI/CD capabilities, Infrastructure as Code, workflow automation, observability patterns and engineering standards.\r\nThis is a highly hands‑on engineering role with significant technical leadership responsibilities. The successful candidate will help shift teams from independently building and maintaining common engineering capabilities toward a build once, automate once, standardize once and enable every team model.\r\nKey Responsibilities:\r\nLead the design and implementation of Central Platform Engineering capabilities that accelerate software delivery across product teams\r\nBuild developer platforms and golden paths providing reusable, self‑service capabilities for React, Node.js, Java, Data/Analytics and GenAI workloads.\r\nDesign and standardize CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, quality gates, security scanning, deployment and rollback capabilities.\r\nDevelop reusable AWS Infrastructure as Code (IaC) modules and automate application/environment provisioning.\r\nIntegrate and automate engineering workflows across GitHub, Jira, Slack, Confluence, AWS and CI/CD tooling.\r\nPartner with SRE and product teams to establish common observability, monitoring, SLO, resiliency and operational-readiness patterns.\r\nEnable AI/GenAI engineering through reusable delivery, evaluation, observability, security and guardrail patterns.\r\nIdentify duplicated engineering work and convert common solutions into reusable platform capabilities and automation.\r\nPartner with embedded product‑team engineers to drive standards, adoption, documentation and engineering best practices.\r\nMeasure and continuously improve developer experience, delivery velocity, reliability and platform adoption.\r\nQualificationsRequired Qualifications & Skills\r\n5+ years of hands‑on AWS experience supporting cloud infrastructure, DevOps, platform engineering, or software delivery automation.\r\nStrong experience with CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CDK), and AWS cloud‑native architectures.\r\nExperience with Git/GitHub, branching and pull‑request workflows, reusable workflows, automated testing and release automation\r\nExperience supporting application delivery across Java, Node.js, React, and/or data workloads.\r\nExperience with observability, reliability, DevSecOps, IAM, secrets management, and automated security controls.\r\nExperience enabling AI/GenAI workloads, including delivery automation, evaluation, guardrails, observability, and operational monitoring.\r\nAdditional / Desired Skills\r\nExperience building or supporting Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs), platform engineering capabilities, golden paths or developer self‑service solutions.\r\nExperience with containers and serverless technologies, including Docker, Kubernetes/EKS, ECS, and AWS Lambda.\r\nExperience integrating and automating engineering workflows across GitHub, Jira, Slack, Confluence, CI/CD, and AWS.\r\nKnowledge of SRE practices, including SLIs/SLOs, resiliency, incident management, root‑cause analysis, and performance engineering.\r\nExperience with data/analytics platforms, data pipelines, APIs, enterprise integration patterns; contact‑center or Amazon Connect integration experience is a plus.\r\nExperience implementing automated governance, compliance and policy‑as‑code capabilities.\r\nOur BenefitsBecause work‑life balance is a priority at State Farm, compensation is based on our standard 38:45‑hour work week!\r\nPotential starting salary range: $100,000 - $142,000. Starting salary will be based on skills, background, and experience. High end of the range limited to applicants with significant relevant experience\r\nPotential yearly incentive pay up to 15% of base salary\r\nAt State Farm, we offer more than just a paycheck. Check out our suite of benefits designed to give you the flexibility you need to take care of you and your family!\r\nGet Paid! On top of our competitive pay, you are eligible for an annual raise and bonus.\r\nStay Well! Focus on you and your family’s health with our robust health and wellbeing programs. State Farm pays most of your healthcare premium, and we offer multiple healthcare plan options, including a high deductible plan. All medical plans provide 100% coverage for in‑network preventative care, AND you and your family have access to vision, dental, telemedicine, 24/7 mental health professionals, and much more!\r\nDevelop and Grow! 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We offer several ways to give back through our Matching Gift Program, Good Neighbor Grant Program, and the Employee Assistance Fund.\r\nFinish Strong! 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