Vended Application Lead Consultant

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. 

Job Description

As a Vended Application Lead Consultant (Container Platform Engineer) you will be working within a fun, fast paced and challenging work environment. No two days are the same within this role, and the opportunity to work with emerging technologies is extremely rewarding.

The team has a great sense of humor and it’s good to be surrounded by like-minded technologists.

The team at Allstate a global platform group spread out across the US, India and Northern Ireland, made up of people with skills in a wide range of technologies including VMWare, Kubernetes, programming/scripting, AWS, and many more.

From a technology perspective we support a Kubernetes based CaaS solution, both OnPrem (VMWare) and Cloud Hosted (AWS), that is the core of Allstate’s future development strategy. There is a huge focus on automation and infrastructure as code to build and support these environments and the team uses a range of vended and open source tools to do so. Partnerships with other groups are also key and a typical day will see the team work with multiple other groups (including the ISAM, AWS, VMWare, Splunk, CI/CD Tools, Firewall, NOC, Jenkins, Yaml, Datadog and Security teams) further broadening the team’s knowledge.

With such a diverse range of technologies in use, the team is filled with experts who are there to help and support each other, spreading knowledge throughout the group. Teamwork is at the core of everything we do which provides a supportive and engaging working environment.

As technology moves forward the team is expected to be the first to embrace it and currently has the opportunity to plan and build out a new platform within the emerging Kubernetes technology stack backed by the enterprise investment needed to train them to do so.

If you want to work in role which helps build your skillset, challenges you on a daily basis, and want to work within a collaborative work environment this would be the role for you.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and implement solutions to continuously deliver an enterprise software system hosted in Kubernetes.

• Provision, configure, and maintain cloud resources using industry standard tools and technologies.

• Build, manage and operate the infrastructure and configuration of various components and tools that manage the software development lifecycle with a strong focus on automation and infrastructure as code

• Being a dependable and highly skilled development resource for peers through education and review.

• Having a broad awareness of related projects and industry trends and encourages innovative practices amongst peers.

• Advocates and models coding and collaboration practices, reviews team code, and provides team members with feedback and suggestions for process improvement.

• Collaborates with other team members to establish new best practices and maintainable processes.

Essential Criteria:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience

• Minimum 3-5 years of related experience

• Advanced knowledge of the Administration of a Kubernetes or equivalent platform

• A strong understanding of Kubernetes workload architecture and design patterns

• Experience implementing and supporting either a Platform as a Service (PaaS) or Container as a service (CaaS) solution

• Experience of scripted management of modern cloud based infrastructure

• Experience with virtualized infrastructure (VMWare, AWS, Azure or GCP)

• Ability to code or script in at least one language (Java, Go, Python, Ruby, Perl, bash, etc.)

• Experience with Terraform or Terraform Enterprise

• Proficiency in Linux command line interface and system administration tasks.

Additional Desired Skills:

• Experience managing logging solutions

• Experience of credential and certificate management

• Experience using cloud monitoring solutions (e.g. Datadog)

• Experience with GitOps and Flux

• Experience with Systems, Application and Network performance/availability monitoring and analysis

• Expertise in problem solving and analyzing global scale distributed systems

• Clear evidence of troubleshooting and resolving issues in an application or PaaS environment

• Strong experience of service restoration activities covering web front end, Systems, Databases and Networks (at least one of these areas is required)

• Proven experience working with infrastructure components (operating systems, compute, storage, networking, distributed systems, big data, cloud, containers, etc.) and solid understanding of the rest and how they impact services

• You have the ability to self-manage.

• Work effectively across organizational boundaries.

• You should be able to influence formally and informally

• Passion for learning and working with new technology

• Clear and effective communication across multiple levels of the organization (i.e. peers, customers, executive leadership, etc.)

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Skills

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Datadog, Git Operations, Java, Kubernetes, System Administration, Terraform, VMware

Compensation

Compensation offered for this role is $92,560.00 - 166,465.00 annually and is based on experience and qualifications.

The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation.

Joining our team isn’t just a job — it’s an opportunity. One that takes your skills and pushes them to the next level. One that encourages you to challenge the status quo. And one where you can impact the future for the greater good.  

You’ll do all this in a flexible environment that embraces connection and belonging. And with the recognition of several inclusivity and diversity awards, we’ve proven that Allstate empowers everyone to lead, drive change and give back where they work and live. 

Good Hands. Greater Together.

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