Infrastructure Solutions Engineer Lead Consultant

Allstate is a company that has been innovating for over 90 years to protect families and their belongings. They are seeking an Infrastructure Solutions Engineer Lead Consultant to manage and implement engineering best practices for their Data Protection infrastructure, including lifecycle management and development of new capabilities.

Responsibilities:

• Enterprise Data Protection Technology management and administration
• Automation of data protection administration and management tasks as needed
• Protect enterprise data protection assets against security vulnerabilities and attacks
• Engagement with internal business functions, other IT support organizations, and multiple diverse application support teams, to collaborate on data protection needs
• Contribute to a team of 7-9 Data Protection engineers
• Build long-term relationships within team and amongst peers by creating an environment of safety, innovation, integrity, and honest open communication
• Initiate and implement continuous improvements in the Data Protection infrastructure environment, including automation of complex tasks and delivery of Data Protection capabilities
• Partner with others in the organization to set and manage expectations associated with Allstate’s Data Protection Infrastructure, continually seek opportunities to be a thought partner and deepen relationships
• Design/create/automate Data Protection solutions to meet business unit requirements
• Contribute to the lifecycle management of Data Protection platforms
• Introduce and deploy new data protection capabilities through the introduction and deployment of new technologies
• Develop and deploy data protection automation to improve service delivery
• Represent the Data Protection team in collaborative efforts and projects with internal clients and other infrastructure teams
• Maintain a relationship with Data Protection vendors and stay abreast of their latest technology offerings and recommend new capabilities that provide value to Allstate
• Establish, implement, and perform data protection related management functions that ensure the resiliency, maintainability, and security of the data protection infrastructure
• Adhere to policies and practices associated with change management, incident management, problem management, and release management in the Data Protection infrastructure
• Research and respond to inquiries regarding solution alternatives, execution or delivery
• Effectively manage multiple projects/tasks simultaneously
• Produce policy, best practice, and procedural documentation for Data Protection related software and hardware operations
• Perform testing of new software and firmware patches to the data protection environment and produce documentation for rolling out the software
• Monitor Data Protection usage and assist with capacity management for all datacenters
• Provide escalation support for Data Protection infrastructure
• Take actions as needed to improve the performance, availability, and resiliency of the Data Protection platforms

Requirements:

• Experience working in a geographically dispersed team environment
• Experience with Data Protection administration and management
• Experience with ServiceNow and Digital AI Agility
• Experience and exposure to Rubrik technologies
• Experience and exposure to public cloud infrastructure deployment
• Experience in developing computing and storage infrastructure related automation