Managing Engineer - Infrastructure as Code (Hybrid)

Responsibilities: 

• 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, GitOps, 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/OpenTofu, 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. 

Essential Skills:    

• All applicants must demonstrate they have a legal right to work in the UK for employment at Allstate. Allstate is not providing sponsorship for this vacancy. 

• A minimum of 4 years hands-on experience with Ansible, Terraform/OpenTofu, Env0, Puppet, Python, or similar infrastructure automation and configuration management technologies. 

• A minimum of 3 years' 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. 

• Demonstrated success establishing and scaling enterprise-wide infrastructure automation and self-service platform initiatives. 

• Strong understanding of CI/CD, GitOps, API development, version control, cloud platforms, networking, security, identity management, and infrastructure architecture. 

• Proven ability to influence technical direction, establish engineering standards, and drive adoption across large enterprise organizations. 

• Excellent leadership, communication, stakeholder management, and organizational change management skills. 

Desirable Skills:   

• Experience building AI-native infrastructure platforms incorporating intelligent code generation, automated testing, policy validation, self-healing workflows, and predictive operational capabilities. 

• Experience integrating LLMs, MCPs, AI agents, Copilot technologies, workflow automation platforms, or AI-assisted engineering solutions into infrastructure delivery processes. 

Supervisory Responsibilities: 

This role does have supervisory duties.  

Posting date: Friday 4th September 2026 [11.59pm] 

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