Lead Cloud Resiliency Engineer

State Farm•Dunwoody, GA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Disaster Recovery Engineering team is seeking an experienced Lead Infrastructure Engineer to advance cloud resiliency and recovery capabilities across the enterprise, with AWS as the primary focus. The role works across diverse technologies and application architectures, partnering with engineering teams to solve recovery challenges and improve how technology recoverability is validated. The position involves planning and evaluating cloud recovery exercises, reviewing application and infrastructure architectures and dependencies, troubleshooting recovery issues, and expanding validation to cover data resiliency, backups, restoration, and critical service dependencies. The engineer will use observability tools and operational metrics to assess outcomes and readiness, and will help improve recovery through automation, standardization, tooling, and repeatable engineering practices. The role also contributes to enterprise cloud recovery strategies through collaboration, experimentation, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

Strong understanding of AWS cloud infrastructure, architecture, and operational practices.
Experience supporting, troubleshooting, or improving complex cloud-based applications and infrastructure.
Ability to understand technical architecture diagrams, application workflows, and infrastructure dependencies.
Experience with infrastructure automation, scripting, or Infrastructure as Code, including the ability to review and troubleshoot existing automation.
Familiarity with observability and monitoring practices used to understand application health and operational performance.
Experience collaborating across engineering teams to investigate technical challenges and drive improvements.
Strong communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills, with an ability to influence outcomes through collaboration.

Nice To Haves

Experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), platform engineering, resiliency engineering, or disaster recovery.
Experience with Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or multi-cloud environments.
Kubernetes or Red Hat OpenShift experience, including managed cloud offerings such as ROSA.
Knowledge of cloud networking, cross-region architectures, and application recovery patterns.
Experience with data resiliency, backup and restoration, or recovery testing.
Experience with observability platforms such as Dynatrace, CloudWatch, Grafana, Prometheus, or Splunk.
Experience with Python, Terraform, CloudFormation, or other infrastructure automation technologies.
Experience with CI/CD pipelines, operational tooling, or self-service engineering platforms.
Experience with AI-assisted operations, intelligent monitoring, or automated operational insights.

Responsibilities

Partner with application and platform teams to plan, facilitate, and evaluate cloud recovery exercises, validating application and infrastructure recoverability.
Review cloud architectures, application workflows, and infrastructure dependencies to identify recovery challenges and opportunities for improvement.
Collaborate with engineering teams to investigate and troubleshoot recovery issues and identify practical solutions.
Expand recovery validation beyond compute to include data resiliency, backup and restoration, and critical service dependencies.
Use observability tools and operational metrics to evaluate recovery outcomes, identify gaps, and improve visibility into recovery readiness.
Identify opportunities to improve recovery processes through automation, standardization, and repeatable engineering practices.
Partner with software engineers to shape resiliency tooling, dashboards, automated validation, and self-service capabilities.
Contribute to the evolution of enterprise cloud recovery strategies and practices through technical collaboration, experimentation, and continuous improvement.

Benefits

Potential yearly incentive pay up to 15% of base salary.
Annual raises and bonuses.
Health and wellbeing programs, with State Farm paying most of the healthcare premium and multiple healthcare plan options.
Medical plans provide 100% coverage for in-network preventative care.
Vision, dental, telemedicine, and access to 24/7 mental health professionals.
Educational benefits, industry training programs, tuition assistance, employee resource groups, and mentoring.
Fertility, IVF, and adoption assistance.
College coaching, national discount programs, financial workshops, and free financial coaching.
Time off policies, with the opportunity to initially earn up to 20 days annually, plus parental leave, paid holidays, celebration day, life leave, bereavement leave, and community service or education support days.
Matching Gift Program, Good Neighbor Grant Program, and Employee Assistance Fund.
401(k) plan with company contributions of up to 7% of salary.
Free financial advisors for retirement planning.