Microsoft 365 Cloud Platform Engineer Expert

Allstate is a company dedicated to protecting families and their belongings from life's uncertainties. The Cloud Product Engineer is responsible for building and operating Allstate's Cloud platforms, developing tools for cloud-native applications, and mentoring engineering teams to ensure efficiency and operational excellence.

Responsibilities:

• Designs, builds, manages, and operates the infrastructure and configuration of the platform infrastructure and application environments with a focus on automation and infrastructure as code
• Leads a team in engineering practices around test driven and continuous delivery of infrastructure
• Designs, builds, manages, and operates the continuous delivery framework and tools, manages, and automates the lifecycle of the different platform components
• Designs, builds, manages, and operates the infrastructure as a service layer (hosted and cloud-based platforms) that supports the different platform services
• Develops comprehensive monitoring solutions to provide full visibility to the different platform components using tools and services like Datadog, New Relic, Azure Monitor, and other similar tools
• Develops a log analytics solution to provide logging-as-a-service to hosted applications based on open-source solutions
• 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
• Evaluates performance trends and expected changes in demand and capacity; and establish the appropriate scalability plans
• Identifies and troubleshoots any availability and performance issues at multiple layers of deployment, from hardware, operating environment, network and application
• Recommends and maintains technology related policies and procedures

Requirements:

• 7 or more years of experience
• Deep level of understanding of Microsoft Entra ID and its relationship between Azure and M365
• Deep level of understanding of Azure Management Groups and Policy
• Deep level of understanding of Azure Regions, Availability Zones, VNets, Private Endpoints and Express Route
• Minimum 5 years' experience with Azure Cloud Services
• Experience with GCP services such as Compute, IAM, Networking, and image management
• Experience in Infrastructure Engineering, Infrastructure Operations, and Application Knowledge
• Experience in testing and programming
• Able to mentor team members on the various engineering practices including extreme programming, product mindset, cloud/as-a-service approach, and infrastructure as code
• Solid background in Software Development / Projects and building Cloud (Azure) Solutions
• Willingness and competent in producing necessary changes in our infrastructure and processes
• Ability to work in an Extreme Programming environment and must be willing to work in a paired programming/engineering model
• Able to facilitate 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 support issues
• Able to communicate effectively across groups of diverse backgrounds
• Ability to present ideas and solutions with clarity to various levels