Lead Software Engineer - Azure Platform Engineering

Overview: Being good neighbors – helping people, investing in our communities, and making the world a better place – is who we are at State Farm. It is at the core of how we operate and the reason for our success. Come join a \#1 team and do some good!**HYBRID:** Qualified candidates must live 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. **HUB LOCATIONS:** Bloomington, IL; Richardson, TX; Dunwoody, GA; Tempe, AZ**SPONSORSHIP:** 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. Grow Your Skills, Grow Your Potential: Responsibilities: Adoption of the Azure Public Cloud Platform is growing, and the Azure Platform Enablement team is expanding to meet the demand. We are seeking someone who is eager to learn, collaborates extremely well with their team and stakeholders, and will contribute operationally, and strategically to mature the Azure platform. Public Cloud experience is necessary for consideration. Current Team Focus: * Platform Engineering Automation – Leveraging Open Code, Service Now Integration, and platform self\-service * Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 Infrastructure Enablement and Provisioning Automation * Azure Windows Server and Services Enablement * OpenAI integration * Use Case Adoption of the Azure Public Cloud platform * Azure Cloud Platform Control Baseline and Observability * Maturation of platform alerting, eventing, resilience, and availability Qualifications: Essential Technical Skills: * Public Cloud Platforms – familiar with public cloud architecture and services. * Information Security Principles – everything the team touches has information security implications. Understanding EISP and information security best practices is imp