Senior 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 Senior Cloud Database Engineer architects designs and builds Cloud database solutions that balance the need for speed, flexibility, and security of database and supporting infrastructure. This role has the primary accountability of architecting, owning, developing, implementing and operating Allstate’s Cloud Database platforms. It also encompasses architecting, developing, building, administering, and deploying self-service tools that enable Allstate developers to build, deploy and operate cloud native applications. As Allstate moves towards the cloud, there is a greater need for use of managed database offerings and SaaS database offerings. This role architects and builds those services using modern practices such as Infrastructure as Code. As a Senior Cloud Database Engineer, you are an area anchor for engineering teams primarily working in a paired programming team, collaborating with different team members. This role requires the ability to synthesize radical ideas and the aptitude to define new database strategies in a global environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Architects, oversees, engineers, and develops the platform as a service and application hosting environment aligning them with business strategies and requirements

• Represents developers and key customers in the product design and lifecycle process

• Champions the engineering practices and helping teams define and setup frameworks for infrastructure as code and automation

• Establishes the strategy and manages complex technical designs in engineering and operating platform infrastructure

• Oversees and develops the strategy and manages complex designs for the continuous delivery framework and tools, and acting as a subject matter expert on CI/CD for developer teams

• Establishes strategy and executes engineering roadmaps around infrastructure as a service; executes strategic engineering proof of concepts around infrastructure platforms

• 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

• Develops a strategy for application and infrastructure monitoring for platforms and applications aligning with enterprise strategy and overall industry trends and direction

• Owns, manages and maintains the high availability designs and engineering for the different platforms across the company

• Champions technology and open source technology internal and external to the company

Education and Experience:

• 4 year Bachelors Degree (Preferred)

• 7 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 (Preferred)

Functional Skills:

• 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 competent in producing necessary changes in our infrastructure and processes.
• Works in an Extreme Programming environment and must be willing to work in a paired programming/engineering model
• Able to facilitate diverse teams, multi-ta