Software Engineer Manager

At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life's uncertainties. And for more than 90 years, our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers' evolving needs. From advocating for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws, to being an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, and, more recently, device and identity protection.

Core Engineering & Platforms (CEP) group is seeking a highly skilled and hands-on Software Engineering Manager for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to lead the development, adoption, and operationalization of enterprise-scale infrastructure automation capabilities. This role is responsible for leading a high-performing engineering team while driving the strategy, roadmap, and execution of software-defined infrastructure solutions that enable infrastructure to be provisioned, managed, and operated through code.

The ideal candidate has successfully led large-scale engineering organizations, launched enterprise Infrastructure as Code initiatives, and delivered measurable business outcomes through automation, platform engineering, and AI transformation. This leader will establish engineering excellence standards, create reusable infrastructure platforms, drive AI-assisted engineering practices, and foster a culture of accountability, innovation, continuous improvement, and technical excellence.

As both a people leader and technical practitioner, the candidate will coach and mentor engineers, provide strategic direction, remove delivery barriers, and ensure successful execution of key initiatives. In addition, it also requires collaborating closely with servers, security, networking, platform, and application engineering teams to build scalable, secure, resilient, and self-service infrastructure capabilities that accelerate business outcomes.

• Lead, coach, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of engineers responsible for Infrastructure as Code platforms, automation frameworks, and self-service infrastructure capabilities.
• Drive the enterprise Infrastructure as Code strategy, standards, governance model, and adoption roadmap across engineering organizations.
• Establish engineering excellence practices including code quality, testing, CI/CD, Git Ops, security, compliance, architecture reviews, and automation standards.
• Design, build, and productize reusable infrastructure modules, templates, blueprints, APIs, and shared platform services.
• Develop and scale automation solutions using technologies such as Ansible, Terraform, Env0, Puppet, Rundeck, Python, and related infrastructure automation platforms.
• Champion AI-assisted engineering, Specification-Driven Design, Copilot technologies, AI agents, and intelligent automation to improve engineering productivity and delivery quality.
• Partner with cloud, networking, security, identity, storage, and platform teams to modernize infrastructure delivery through automation and self-service experiences.
• Drive CI/CD pipeline implementation, deployment automation, policy-as-code, security-as-code, and compliance automation capabilities.
• Establish measurable engineering objectives, KPIs, and operational metrics while ensuring teams consistently deliver business outcomes and expected results.
• Influence engineering organizations to adopt enterprise standards, reusable patterns, and platform-first approaches.
• Create training programs, technical documentation, reference architectures, and enablement materials that accelerate IaC adoption and engineering maturity.
• Balance strategic planning with hands-on technical leadership while removing obstacles, managing priorities, and ensuring successful execution of critical initiatives.

• Proven experience building, leading, coaching, and developing high-performing engineering teams while driving measurable business and technology outcomes.
• Deep expertise in Infrastructure as Code principles, platform engineering, automation frameworks, and software engineering best practices.
• Experience building AI-native infrastructure platforms incorporating intelligent code generation, automated testing, policy validation, self-healing workflows, and predictive operational capabilities.
• Strong hands-on experience with Ansible, Terraform, Env0, Puppet, Python, or similar infrastructure automation and configuration management technologies.
• Experience integrating LLMs, MCPs, AI agents, Copilot technologies, workflow…