Allstate Insurance Co. is a well-established company focused on protecting families and their belongings. They are seeking an experienced Managing Engineer (Network Application Delivery) to lead technical initiatives, guide engineering standards, and manage a team responsible for critical network and application delivery services.
Responsibilities:
- Manage a team of network and application delivery engineers, providing direction, mentorship, and performance guidance
- Oversee the design, implementation, and optimization of F5 application delivery services, including load balancing, traffic management, SSL offloading, and performance tuning
- Manage and administer Infoblox DNS, DHCP, and IPAM platforms, ensuring scalable, resilient, and secure DDI services
- Provide technical leadership during major incidents, directing troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and resolution activities
- Partner with security, cloud, and infrastructure teams to maintain compliant, secure, and high-performing network architectures
- Guide the development and maintenance of configuration standards, documentation, diagrams, runbooks, and operational processes
- Lead lifecycle management efforts including upgrades, patches, capacity planning, and platform modernization
- Drive initiatives related to modernization, cloud integrations, automation, and service improvements
- Participate in or lead an on-call rotation and support critical incident response
Requirements:
- 7 years or more of experience in network engineering or network application delivery roles, including team leadership responsibilities. (Or Equivalent)
- 2 years or more of global delivery management experience. (Or Equivalent)
- Experienced with F5 technologies (LTM, GTM/DNS, ASM, APM, iRules)
- Strong expertise in Infoblox DDI (DNS, DHCP, IPAM) administration and architecture
- Solid understanding of TCP/IP, routing protocols, firewalls, NAT policies, and end-to-end traffic flows
- Experience using network monitoring, diagnostic, and performance analysis tools
- Familiarity with automation and scripting (Python, Bash, Ansible, or similar)
- Demonstrated ability to lead complex technical efforts and collaborate across engineering, security, and operations teams
- Experience influencing architectural direction and technology standards for enterprise networking, application delivery, and DNS/DDI platforms
- Demonstrated experience partnering with senior stakeholders to translate business requirements into scalable, secure, and cost‑effective technical solutions
- Ability to prioritize initiatives, manage technical debt, and balance short‑term delivery needs with long‑term platform strategy
- Experience mentoring engineers and driving technical excellence, consistency, and best practices across teams
- Cloud networking experience within AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Experience with SDN technologies, cloud load balancing, or hybrid network architectures
- Relevant certifications such as F5 CA/CTS or Infoblox NIOS
- Experience working in large-scale enterprise environments
- Strong analytical, problem‑solving, and communication skills