Cloud Provisioning- Consultant II

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.

• 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
• Implements engineering practices and guides teams in using frameworks for infrastructure as code and immutable infrastructure concepts
• Manages complex technical designs in engineering and operating cloud platform infrastructure
• Contributes to strategy and designs for continuous integration and continuous delivery frameworks and tools
• Contributes to technology strategy and engineering roadmaps around cloud platforms; executes strategic engineering proof of concepts around cloud platforms
• Defines and develops new products and services that provide functions-as-a-service and are user centric
• Decides on appropriate use of open source and commercial technology based upon industry trends and innovative concepts
• Works primarily in an Extreme Programming environment and must be willing to work in a paired programming/engineering model

• Demonstrable experience designing and implementing complex applications and distributed systems into public cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.)
• Experience and solid understanding of complex, multi-region, highly available stateless and stateful deployments
• Solid understanding of security and compliance frameworks, standards and implementation in public cloud environments
• Experience with infrastructure technologies such as network, compute, and storage
• Experience in using DSLs/frameworks for managing infrastructure as code like Cloud Formation, Env0, Terraform, Open Tofu, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, BOSH, etc.
• Experience in infrastructure programming using languages like Python, Groovy, Ruby, Go
• Familiar with IaC scripting tools such as the AWS CLI and boto3
• Hands‑on experience using continuous integration/delivery tools like git, Git Hub, Jenkins, Concourse

• 3+ years of application development and infrastructure engineering experience
• Ability 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
• Ability to work in diverse teams, multi‑task, and work under pressure to meet aggressive schedule targets
• Ability to work effectively across organizational and geographical boundaries
• Identify creative solutions for technical challenges
• Ability to communicate effectively across groups of diverse backgrounds
• Ability to communicate and present ideas and solutions

Ansible (Software), Cloud Provisioning, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integrations, Defect…