AWS Services Managing Engineer

Allstate • McCullom Lake, IL

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About The Position

Allstate is looking for an experienced leader that accelerates Allstate’s move into the public cloud. The position is with the Allstate Cloud Engineering group. Cloud Engineering is responsible for making the cloud seamless and secure at Allstate and Allstate’s Family of Companies. The AWS Services Managing Engineer leads a group of engineers as they build, automate and secure AWS Cloud services. The team consists of talented individuals that are passionate about technology and work collaboratively on achieving Allstate’s goals. Engineers follow an XP Type mindset, actively pairing throughout the day and across timezones. The AWS Services Managing Engineer works closely with the product managers and engineers to remove obstacles and help the team be as productive as possible.

Requirements

• 5+ years of application development and infrastructure engineering experience
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Certification
• 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 facilitate diverse teams, time zones, 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
• Demonstrable experience designing and implementing complex applications and distributed systems into AWS cloud infrastructure
• 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 and solid understanding of infrastructure technologies such as network, compute, and storage
• Experience in infrastructure as code using Terraform, and Cloudformation

Responsibilities

• Leads engineers in overseeing and developing cloud environments and platforms, while aligning them with business and security strategies and requirements
• Work closely with product managers to prioritize the backlog and collaborate on Infrastructure roadmaps
• Hands-on experience with AWS cloud solutions at massive scale and resiliency
• Champions the engineering practices and helping teams define and setup frameworks for infrastructure as code and immutable infrastructure concepts
• Establishes the strategy and manages complex technical designs in engineering and operating cloud platform infrastructure
• Defines and develops new products and services that provides functions- “as-a-service”
• Champions for the appropriate use of open source and commercial technology based upon industry trends and innovative concepts

Benefits

• Compensation offered for this role is 120,000.00 - 193,725.00 annually and is based on experience and qualifications.
• The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed