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.

• Writes and maintains 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
• Designs cloud patterns and reusable infrastructure modules for AWS and Azure.
• Troubleshoots complex cloud provisioning, security, and deployment issues.
• Partners with application teams to help them adopt cloud engineering best practices.
• Leads technical initiatives and mentors 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

• 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, Open Tofu, Cloud Formation, 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.

• 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
• Able to work in diverse teams, multi-task, and work under pressure to meet aggressive schedule targets
• Able to work effectively across organizational and geographical boundaries
• Identify creative solutions for technical challenges
• Able to communicate effectively across groups of diverse backgrounds
• Ability to communicate and present ideas and solutions

Skills Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cloud Platform, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Improvement, Defect Resolution, ERP Applications, Functional Designs, Git Hub, Integration Testing, Issue Management, Jenkins (Software), Microsoft Azure, Public Clouds, Python (Programming Language), Terraform (Software)

Compensation offered for this role is 98,100. annually and is based on experience and qualifications.

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