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Encova Insurance has an immediate opening for a Manager, Infrastructure Engineering for our Columbus, Ohio corporate location. This is a hybrid role with expectation in office days each week.

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The salary range for this job posting is $121,868.00 - $194,990.00 annually + bonus + benefits. Pay Type: Salary. The above represents the full salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay and job title, we'll consider your location, education, experience, and other job-related factors, and will fall within the stated range. Your recruiter can share more information about the specific salary range during the hiring process.

Unique residence requirements are listed in each job posting; review closely for details. Encova is only able to employ associates who reside and work within specific U.S. states. Our current footprint includes: Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin.

Key Responsibilities

• Leadership & People Management
  • Mentor and guide a team of infrastructure engineers through the transition to platform engineering roles.
  • Foster a culture of continuous learning, cloud-native thinking, and automation-first mindset.
  • Set clear goals and development plans to help team members gain proficiency in PaaS, IaC, and cloud services.
  • Coach to support emotional and professional adaptability during the transformation.
• Strategy & Transformation
  • Lead the evolution from traditional infrastructure delivery to Infrastructure as a Platform.
  • Collaborate with architecture and cloud teams to define and implement the PaaS operating model.
  • Drive standardization, automation, and reusability across compute, storage, network, and middleware layers.
  • Promote self-service and DevOps-friendly platforms to enhance speed, scalability, and user experience.
• Cloud & Technical Oversight
  • Work closely with the Application and Architecture teams to ensure alignment with enterprise AWS cloud strategy.
  • Guide adoption of IaC tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation) and cloud-native services.
  • Ensure operational excellence, security, and compliance across all platform components.
  • Monitor performance and continuously improve reliability, scalability, and cost-efficiency of the platform.
• FinOps & Cloud Cost Management
  • Apply AWS FinOps principles to manage and optimize cloud spend across infrastructure services.
  • Implement cost tracking, tagging, budgeting, and reporting mechanisms aligned with engineering initiatives.
  • Proactively identify and remediate cost inefficiencies in AWS usage (e.g., rightsizing, reserved instances, savings plans).
  • Educate the team on cloud cost awareness and embed cost accountability into engineering practices.
• Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement
  • Act as a bridge between engineering teams and architecture, security, DevOps, and application teams.
  • Communicate progress, risks, and roadblocks effectively to senior leadership.
  • Align infrastructure platform capabilities with business and developer needs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, required.
• Minimum of 6-8 years of experience in leading infrastructure engineering teams in a transformation or modernization context.
• Strong knowledge of AWS services and experience working within a PaaS model in infrastructure space.
• Hands-on understanding of IaC, CI/CD, and DevOps principles.

This position has been evaluated in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Encova Insurance makes every effort to reasonably accommodate disabilities to permit performance of the essential functions and candidates who need such accommodation are encouraged to seek it. This description reflects the nature and level of work performed by associates in this position. It is not an all-inclusive inventory of duties, responsibilities and qualifications required. It provides an accurate overview of the work and skills needed to perform this position. Because job content may change from time to time, Encova Insurance reserves the right to add and/or delete functions from this job as it deems necessary for business reasons.

Ready to join our team? At Encova Insurance, we firmly believe that our associates drive our company's success by delivering unrivaled service to our customers. We strive to provide an environment that offers challenging, stimulating and financially rewarding opportunities. Join us to discover a work experience where your diverse ideas will be met with enthusiasm — where you can learn and grow to your fullest potential.

What You Can Expect From Us

Join our family of industry leaders, and let us reward you with a competitive salary, bonus and benefits package that includes but is not limited to: a 401(k), wellness programs, bonus incentive plans and flexible schedules, with an early close of the office every Friday. Additionally, Encova aspires to be an outstanding corporate citizen in all the markets we serve; we encourage and support associate participation in community initiatives through our foundations.

Encova Insurance is an EOE/E-Verify employer.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Information Technology
• Industries: Insurance