Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Allstate is an insurance company that protects families and their belongings from life's uncertainties. They are seeking a Cloud Provisioning Engineer to design and build secure cloud environments and platforms, automate public cloud services, and improve engineering practices. The role involves collaborating with teams to align applications with cloud standards and enhancing the cloud infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Builds the various opinionated cloud environments and platforms while aligning them with business and security strategies and requirements
- Builds standards, designs, and automates the deployment of software in cloud environments
- Improves engineering practices and guides teams in using frameworks for infrastructure as code and immutable infrastructure concepts
- Manages complex technical designs in engineering and operating cloud platform infrastructure
- Contributes to the strategy and designs for the continuous integration and continuous delivery frameworks and tools
- Contribute to technology strategy and engineering roadmaps around cloud platforms; executes strategic engineering proof of concepts around cloud platforms
- Defines and develops new products and services that provides functions- “as-a-service” and are user centric
- Decides on the appropriate use of open source and commercial technology based upon industry trends and innovative concepts
- Will be working primarily in an Extreme Programming environment and must be willing to work in a paired programming/engineering model
Skills
- Demonstrable experience designing and implementing complex applications and distributed systems into public cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc…)
- Experience and solid understanding of complex, multi-region, highly available state-less and state-full deployments
- Solid understanding of security and compliance frameworks, standards and implementation in public cloud environments
- Experience with infrastructure technologies such as network, compute, and storage
- Experience in using DSLs/frameworks for managing infrastructure as code like (or similar to) CloudFormation, Env0, Terraform, OpenTofu, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, BOSH, etc…
- Experience in infrastructure programming using languages like Python, Groovy, Ruby, Go
- Familiar with IaC scripting tools such as the AWS CLI and boto3
- Hands on experience using continuous integration/delivery tools like (or similar to) git, GitHub, Jenkins, Concourse
- 4+ years of application development and infrastructure engineering experience
- Able to mentor different teams across the various engineering practices including extreme programming, product mindset, cloud/as-a-service approach, and infrastructure as code
- Hands-on style - willingness and competence in producing necessary changes in our infrastructure and processes
- Able to work in diverse teams, multi-task, and work under pressure to meet aggressive schedule targets
- Able to work effectively across organizational and geographical boundaries
- Identify creative solutions for technical challenges
- Able to communicate effectively across groups of diverse backgrounds
- Ability to communicate and present ideas and solutions
Benefits
- 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.
Company Overview
Allstate is an insurance company that offers car, home, and life insurance services. It is a sub-organization of Allstate. It was founded in 1931, and is headquartered in Northbrook, Illinois, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is http://www.allstate.com.