In-Memory Database Platform Engineer

Allstate • McCullom Lake, IL

2d • $80,000 - $136,625

About The Position

Allstate is seeking a mid-level In-Memory Database Platform Engineer to join its Database Engineering team and build, operate, and modernize enterprise in-memory database services. The role supports on-premises Redis deployments and cloud-managed in-memory database offerings, with a focus on reliable operations, automation, security, performance, high availability, backup and recovery, and consistent engineering practices.

The engineer will work with application, infrastructure, security, SRE, network, and cloud engineering teams. Responsibilities span Redis and managed in-memory services, platform operations, disaster recovery, performance and reliability, security and compliance, and automation and DevOps. The role provides operational support for business-critical production and non-production environments, participates in on-call rotations and incident response, and works independently on standard engineering tasks while partnering with senior engineers on complex designs, migrations, and incidents.

Requirements

• At least 4 years of database administration, database engineering, platform engineering, or related infrastructure experience.
• At least 2 years of hands-on Redis administration or engineering experience in production or enterprise environments.
• Working knowledge of Redis architecture, persistence, replication, clustering, memory management, security, maintenance, and performance tuning.
• Hands-on experience with high availability, backup/recovery or persistence strategies, monitoring, capacity planning, and production support.
• Experience supporting at least one cloud-managed in-memory database service or comparable cloud database platform.
• Solid Linux administration and troubleshooting skills.
• Ability to troubleshoot database, operating system, storage, network, client-connectivity, and application-integration issues.
• Experience executing upgrades, patching, migrations, platform changes, and controlled production releases.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively across engineering teams.

Nice To Haves

• RHEL or a comparable enterprise Linux distribution experience.
• Experience with multiple cloud in-memory offerings, especially Amazon ElastiCache for Redis/Valkey, Amazon MemoryDB, Azure Managed Redis, or Google Cloud Memorystore.
• Experience with Redis Enterprise or Redis Software for on-premises platform management.
• Experience with Ansible automation for installation, configuration, patching, validation, or recurring operational tasks.
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, or MySQL.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and delivery tooling such as Terraform, GitHub, GitLab, or CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with observability platforms such as Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, or native cloud monitoring services.
• Exposure to Redis-compatible technologies such as Valkey.
• Strong ownership, customer focus, and attention to operational quality.
• Practical analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to manage priorities, follow engineering standards, and deliver assigned work with appropriate guidance.
• Strong collaboration, documentation, and communication skills.
• Interest in developing deeper expertise across in-memory platforms, automation, and multi-cloud database services.

Responsibilities

• Build, deploy, administer, and support production and non-production Redis environments on-premises and through cloud-managed in-memory database services.
• Perform installation, configuration, patching, version upgrades, migrations, lifecycle management, and routine platform maintenance.
• Support Redis standalone, replication, and clustered architectures as applicable.
• Apply engineering standards, reference configurations, operational controls, and documented best practices.
• Partner with application teams on connectivity, caching patterns, key design, data structures, performance, resilience, and operational readiness.
• Support managed in-memory database offerings such as Amazon ElastiCache for Redis/Valkey, Amazon MemoryDB, Azure Managed Redis, and Google Cloud Memorystore.
• Assist with provisioning, configuration, scaling, maintenance, monitoring, networking, access management, and migration activities across cloud environments.
• Help maintain consistent security, reliability, observability, and operational practices across on-premises and cloud implementations.
• Configure and support highly available Redis solutions using replication, clustering, multi-zone, or cloud-native resiliency capabilities.
• Configure and operate persistence, snapshot, backup, retention, restore, and recovery-validation processes where supported and required.
• Monitor availability, memory utilization, latency, throughput, replication health, capacity, and platform performance.
• Analyze and tune Redis configurations, memory policies, data structures, client behavior, connection patterns, hot keys, and workload characteristics.
• Troubleshoot production incidents, contribute to root-cause analysis, and implement corrective and preventive actions.
• Participate in capacity planning, observability, operational health, and reliability improvements.
• Implement and maintain authentication, authorization, least-privilege access, network controls, auditing, and credential-management integrations.
• Support private connectivity and identity/access controls for cloud-managed services.
• Assist with vulnerability remediation, compliance reviews, security assessments, and evidence requests.
• Develop and maintain automation for provisioning, configuration, deployment, patching, validation, monitoring, and routine operations.
• Use source control, APIs, CI/CD practices, configuration management, and Infrastructure as Code to improve consistency and repeatability.
• Contribute to safe self-service capabilities and reduce manual operational work.
• Provide operational support for business-critical production and non-production in-memory database environments.
• Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, change management, and problem management.
• Create and maintain runbooks, troubleshooting guides, standards, and operational documentation.
• Work independently on standard engineering tasks and partner with senior engineers on complex designs, migrations, and incidents.

Benefits

• Comprehensive technology setup, including a laptop, monitors, headset, keyboard, and mouse.
• Monthly connectivity reimbursement for employees eligible to work from home.

What This Job Offers

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