Allstate Insurance - Cloud Provisioning Engineer - AWS/Azure/Google Cloud Platform

Job Description :

The Cloud Provisioning Engineer :

- 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

Technical Skills :

- Demonstrable experience designing and implementing complex applications and distributed systems into public cloud infrastructure (AWS, Google Cloud Platform, 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, Golang

- 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

Additional Skills Preferred :

- 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