Lead Cloud Platform Developer

Lead Cloud Platform Developer Are you passionate about cloud technologies, automation, and building platform capabilities that empower development teams? Do you enjoy solving complex technical challenges, mentoring others, and driving operational excellence through modern cloud engineering practices? If so, this position might be right for you! We are seeking an experienced Lead Cloud Platform Developer to lead the design, implementation, and operational support of cloud platform capabilities, automation solutions, and shared infrastructure services that accelerate cloud adoption and improve developer productivity across the enterprise.

Who We Are:

With Farm Bureau Financial Services, our client/members can feel confident knowing their family, home, cars, and other property are protected. We value a culture where integrity, teamwork, passion, service, leadership, and accountability are at the heart of every decision we make and every action we take. We're proud of our more than 80-year commitment to protecting the livelihoods and futures of our client/members and creating an atmosphere where our employees thrive.

What You'll Do:
Design, implement, and drive adoption of cloud platform tooling, automation, reusable services, and engineering capabilities that improve developer productivity and operational efficiency. Lead complex platform initiatives from design through implementation, operational support, and continuous improvement. Serve as the primary technical escalation point for cloud platform challenges, providing architectural guidance and implementation direction. Design, build, and support CI/CD pipelines, deployment workflows, and release automation processes using modern Dev Ops practices.

Lead troubleshooting efforts and resolution of complex platform issues and major incidents across cloud environments. Develop and enhance cloud platform capabilities that enable secure, scalable, and reliable application delivery. Contribute to the development and evolution of enterprise cloud standards, governance practices, and engineering best practices. Partner with application development teams to support cloud migrations, platform onboarding, environment modernization, and adoption initiatives.

Provide technical leadership through architecture reviews, design discussions, mentoring, and code reviews that improve engineering quality and consistency. Collaborate with Architecture, Information Security, Infrastructure Operations, and development teams to ensure platform solutions meet business, security, reliability, and operational requirements. Promote operational excellence through automation, monitoring, observability, security controls, and continuous improvement efforts. Support business functions across the enterprise by delivering shared cloud services and reusable platform capabilities that accelerate engineering effectiveness.

What It Takes to Join Our Team:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field; or an equivalent combination of education and experience. Five (5) or more years of experience in cloud engineering, infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, Dev Ops, or related technical roles. Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Azure cloud architecture, cloud-native services, and operational best practices.

Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), preferably Terraform. Experience designing, implementing, and supporting CI/CD automation using Git Hub Actions or similar technologies. Strong knowledge of cloud networking, security controls, monitoring solutions, and platform operations. Experience designing and implementing reusable platform capabilities, automation solutions, and shared infrastructure services.…