Cloud Database Engineer

The world isn’t standing still, and neither is Allstate. We’re moving quickly, looking across our businesses and brands and taking bold steps to better serve customers’ evolving needs. That’s why now is an exciting time to join our team. You’ll have opportunities to take risks, challenge the status quo and shape the future for the greater good.

 

You’ll do all this in an environment of excellence and the highest ethical standards – a place where values such as integrity, inclusive diversity and accountability are paramount. We empower every employee to lead, drive change and give back where they work and live. Our people are our greatest strength, and we work as one team in service of our customers and communities.

 

Everything we do at Allstate is driven by a shared purpose: to protect people from life’s uncertainties so they can realize their hopes and dreams. For more than 89 years we’ve thrived by staying a step ahead of whatever’s coming next – to give customers peace of mind no matter what changes they face. We acted with conviction to advocate for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws. We help give survivors of domestic violence a voice through financial empowerment. We’ve been an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, digital photo claims and, more recently, device and identity protection.

 

We are the Good Hands. We don’t follow the trends. We set them.

Job Summary:

The Cloud Database Engineer designs and builds Cloud database solutions that balance the need for speed, flexibility, and security of database and supporting infrastructure. As Allstate moves toward the cloud, there is a greater need for use of managed database offerings and SaaS database offerings. This role helps operationalize those services using modern practices, such as Infrastructure as Code. It requires the ability to synthesize radical ideas and the aptitude to define new database strategies in a global environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Engineers and develops the database as a service aligning them with business strategies and requirements
• Champions the engineering practices and helping teams define and setup frameworks for infrastructure as code and automation
• Defines and develops new products and services that provides functions- as-a-service to developers and customers; championing a seamless user experience for direct customers
• Engineer database and infrastructure monitoring that aligns with the enterprise strategy
• Manage and maintains high availability designs and engineering for the different database platforms across cloud environments
• Participate as an active member of Design & Build IT projects, steering Cloud configurations and services toward industry-leading security practices within domain expertise
• Engineer and implement new Cloud database technologies to feed our DevOps/SecOps processes to ensure the solvency of Cloud computing resources. Thoroughly understand DevOps ideologies with the ability to drive and communicate change supporting DevOps/SecOps methodology within the organization
• Evaluate and respond to alerts and events from the monitoring tools, including tuning of tool configuration to minimize false positives. Develop SOP documentation and processes for Network Operations Center to follow and appropriate escalation protocol
• Directs root cause analysis on complex incidents and leads the problem management discussions related to incidents
• Acts as client advocate, ensuring smooth implementation into application architecture and database standards

Education and Experience:

• 4 year Bachelors Degree (Preferred)

• 3 or more years of experience (Preferred)

• In lieu of the above education requirements, an equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:

• AWS Certified Database Specialty (Preferred)
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate (Preferred)

 

Functional Skills:

Preferred Skills: Infrastructure as code, Automation of Database activities, Cloud and SaaS databases (AWS Document DB, Mongo Atlas, AWS RDS, or Azure Managed Databases, AWS Aurora databases (Postgres)

• Experience with Cloud and SaaS databases (AWS Document DB, Mongo Atlas, AWS RDS, or Azure Managed Databases, AWS Aurora databases (Postgres))
• Experience with public Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure)
• Experience with MS SQL, Oracle, MySQL, MongoDB
• Experience in networking concepts and services, such as, VPNs, IPsec, PKI and TCP/IP; familiar with high-availability (HA) and failover implementations for network infrastructure and server systems
• Experience deploying and maintaining systems and applications within a secure, regulated environment; knowledge to