Cloud Automation Engineer

At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life’s uncertainties. And for more than 90 years, our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers’ evolving needs. From advocating for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws, to being an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, and, more recently, device and identity protection.

Allstate is looking for Cloud Provisioning Engineers within ATSV Infrastructure Services. Within IS, the cloud engineers are responsible and accountable for the engineering and operation of the Allstate cloud platforms. The cloud platforms are comprised of multiple public cloud environments, continuous integration and continuous delivery tools and pipelines that enforce our security and operational standards. The Cloud Provisioning Engineer will design and build opinionated, secure cloud environments and platforms for Allstate. Job responsibilities will include automating public cloud services by building continuous integration and delivery pipelines that are used by infrastructure teams as well as application teams. They will partner with consumers of the cloud platforms to align their applications to our standards and to solicit feedback for the purpose of improving our platforms. The Cloud Provisioning Engineer:   Write s   and   maintain s   Python applications that automate the provisioning and management of cloud environments.   Builds the various opinionated cloud environments and platforms while aligning them with business and security strategies and requirements   Builds standards, designs, and automates the deployment of software in cloud environments   Design s   cloud patterns and reusable infrastructure modules for AWS and Azure.   Troubleshoot s   complex cloud provisioning, security, and deployment issues.   Partner s   with application   teams to   help them adopt cloud engineering best practices.   Lead s   technical initiatives and   mentor s   other engineers on cloud automation and Infrastructure as Code.   Will be working primarily in an Extreme Programming environment and must be willing to work in a paired programming/engineering model   Contributes to the strategy and designs for the continuous integration and continuous delivery frameworks and tools   Defines and develops new products and services that provides functions- “as-a-service” and are user centric   Technical Skills   Expert-level   Python development experience with the ability to design, build, test, and   maintain   production-grade   cloud   automation systems.   Extensive experience building cloud infrastructure solutions in AWS and/or Azure.   Deep understanding of Infrastructure as Code principles   including   hands-on experience with Terraform,   OpenTofu , CloudFormation, or similar platforms.   Experience designing and supporting CI/CD pipelines that provision, configure, and manage cloud infrastructure.   Strong understanding of cloud networking, identity and access management, security controls,   compute , storage, and platform architecture.   Proven ability to diagnose and solve complex technical problems across   application , infrastructure, and cloud domains.   Experience developing reusable automation frameworks, APIs, libraries, and tooling   such as boto3 and the Azure SDK   Ability to lead technical discussions, mentor engineers,   establish   engineering standards, and drive   adoption   of cloud engineering best practices.   Additional Skills Preferred:   4+ years of application development and infrastructure engineering experience   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