Cloud Engineering Lead Consultant

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. 

• Recommends and maintains technology related policies and procedures

• Identifies and troubleshoots any availability and performance issues at multiple layers of deployment, from hardware, operating environment, network and application

• Designs, builds, manages and operates the infrastructure as a service layer (hosted and cloud-based platforms) that supports the different platform services

• Designs, builds, manages and operates the continuous delivery framework and tools, manages and automates the lifecycle of the different platform components, and acts as a subject matter expert on CI/CD for developer teams

• Leads a team’s engineering practices around test driven and continuous delivery of infrastructure

• Designs, builds, manages and operate the infrastructure and configuration of the platform infrastructure and application environments with a focus on automation and infrastructure as code

• Evaluates performance trends and expected changes in demand and capacity; and establish the appropriate scalability plans

• Integrates different components and develop new services with a focus on open source to allow a minimal friction developer interaction with the platform and application services

• Develops a log analytics solution to provide logging-as-a-service to hosted applications based on open source solutions

• Develops comprehensive monitoring solutions to provide full visibility to the different platform components using tools and services like Graphite, ELK, Datadog, New Relic and other similar tools

• This job does not have supervisory duties.

• 5 or more years of experience (Preferred)

Allstate generally does not sponsor individuals for employment-based visas for this position.

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Allstate provides a comprehensive technology setup, including a laptop, monitors, headset, keyboard, and mouse. Employees eligible to work from home also receive a monthly connectivity reimbursement to help offset internet costs.

When working from home, you must have a dedicated, private workspace free from distractions, along with appropriate desk and seating. Reliable internet is required, with minimum speeds of 50 MB download and 5 MB upload.

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