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# Lead Software Engineer - Azure Platform Engineering

- **Company:** State Farm Insurance
- **Location:** Bloomington, IL, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $97,000.0 - $177,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Azure, Cyber Security, Windows Servers, Virtual Desktops, Event Driven Architecture, Servicenow
- **Published:** July 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=3041e2cc44de78a8

## About the Role

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 important.
 * Networking - Most of the work with the Azure platform has a moderate to high degree of network complexity.

Essential Personal Skills:

 * Collaboration - You will need to thrive in a work environment where you work independently in a team environment. This team addresses conflict head on, holds each other accountable, knows when to ask for help, and obsessively shares information.
 * Customer Service - the bar is high for responding to customer inquiries and service tickets. In this role you are expected to provide excellent customer support AND figure out ways to avoid similar incidents in the future.
 * Learning Agility - The environment is complex and demand for Azure Platform capabilities is growing - it's a challenging and rewarding space that will require ongoing personal development.
 * Experience - This is not an entry-level engineering position. No consideration will be given to applicants who are not currently or have previously been a software engineer or worked in a similar role.

## Description

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


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