Cloud Product Engineer (AWS)

$92,560 - $166,465/Yr

Allstate

Full-time - Mid Level

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About the position

The Cloud Product Engineer at Allstate is responsible for building and managing cloud application development and hosting platforms. This role involves owning, developing, implementing, and operating Allstate's Cloud platforms, as well as creating self-service tools for developers to build and deploy cloud-native applications. The engineer will collaborate with teams, mentor members, and ensure operational tasks meet service level agreements (SLAs).

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, managing and automating the lifecycle of different platform components.
• Designs, builds, manages, and operates the infrastructure as a service layer that supports different platform services.
• Develops comprehensive monitoring solutions to provide full visibility to different platform components using tools like Datadog, New Relic, and AWS Cloud Watch.
• Develops a log analytics solution to provide logging-as-a-service to hosted applications based on open-source solutions.
• Integrates different components and develops new services with a focus on open source to allow minimal friction developer interaction with the platform and application services.
• Evaluates performance trends and expected changes in demand and capacity; establishes appropriate scalability plans.
• Identifies and troubleshoots any availability and performance issues at multiple layers of deployment, from hardware to application.
• Recommends and maintains technology-related policies and procedures.

Requirements

• 4-year bachelor's degree (Preferred)
• 7 or more years of experience (Preferred)
• Deep understanding of Microsoft Entra ID and its relationship with AWS IAM.
• Deep understanding of AWS Organizations and SCP Policy.
• Deep understanding of AWS Regions, Availability Zones, VPC, Private Endpoints, and Direct Connect.
• Minimum 5 years' experience with AWS Cloud Services.
• Experience in Infrastructure Engineering, Infrastructure Operations, and Application Knowledge.
• Experience in testing and programming.

Nice-to-haves

• Ability to mentor team members on 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 (AWS) Solutions.
• Willingness and competence in producing necessary changes in infrastructure and processes.
• Ability to work in an Extreme Programming environment and willingness to work in a paired programming/engineering model.
• Ability to facilitate diverse teams, multi-task, and work under pressure to meet aggressive schedule targets.
• Ability to work effectively across organizational and geographical boundaries.
• Identify creative solutions for technical support issues.
• Ability to communicate effectively across groups of diverse backgrounds.
• Ability to present ideas and solutions with clarity to various levels.

Benefits

• Flexible work environment that embraces connection and belonging.
• Opportunities for professional growth and development.
• Recognition of inclusivity and diversity awards.