Cloud Provisioning Engineer

Allstate is a leading insurance company that focuses on protecting families and their belongings. They are seeking a Cloud Provisioning Engineer responsible for designing and building secure cloud environments and platforms, automating public cloud services, and collaborating with teams to enhance cloud platform standards.

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

Requirements:

• 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