Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Allstate is an insurance company focused on protecting families and their belongings through innovative products and services. The Cloud Engineering Lead Consultant will own, develop, implement, and operate cloud application development and hosting platforms, while leading platform engineering practices, automation, continuous delivery, monitoring, and infrastructure-as-code initiatives.
Responsibilities
- 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
Skills
- Cloud Applications
- Cloud Engineering
- Cloud Platform
- Continuous Delivery
- Continuous Integration Software
- Python (Programming Language)
- Software Development
- Terraform (Software)
- 5 or more years of experience
Benefits
- Fully Remote
- 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.
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