Cloud Engineer
- Employer
- Allstate Insurance Company
- Location
- Irving, Texas
- Salary
- Not Specified
- Closing date
- Sep 16, 2019
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- Category
- IT
- Job Type
- Not Specified
- Career Level
- Not Specified
Job Details
Where good people build rewarding careers.
Think that working in the insurance field can’t be exciting, rewarding and challenging? Think again. You’ll help us reinvent protection and retirement to improve customers’ lives. We’ll help you make an impact with our training and mentoring offerings. Here, you’ll have the opportunity to expand and apply your skills in ways you never thought possible. And you’ll have fun doing it. Join a company of individuals with hopes, plans and passions, all using and developing our talents for good, at work and in life.
Job Summary
This role is responsible for a DevOps approach to development of new systems for analyzing/processing/enriching Unstructured content; the coding & development of advanced analytics solutions to make/optimize business decisions and processes; integrating new tools to improve analytics; and address new technical challenges using existing and emerging technology solutions.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement a centralized unstructured data management ecosystem to collect, analyze, store, protect and govern unstructured data for the enterprise.
- Work closely with the team to design, plan, build and maintain a scalable Cloud platform for the evolving needs to support Allstate’s Unstructured Data Strategy.
- Provide recommendations on implementation of organization wide processes and procedures for the management of data risk especially if the solution is based on a public cloud services.
- Coordinate with Network and Infrastructure teams to design systems that can scale to the operational needs of handling large volumes of Unstructured data
- Partners with other internal teams and peers in the department to ensure holistic solutions meet the needs of various stakeholders.
- Leverages and uses Big Data best practices to develop technical solutions used for handling of Unstructured data.
- Supports Innovation; regularly provides new ideas to help people, process, and technology that interact with data ecosystem.
- Develop and builds frameworks/prototypes that integrate Unstructured data and advanced analytics to make better business decisions.
- Supports a clear communication strategy that keeps all relevant stakeholders informed and provides an opportunity to influence the direction of the work
- Trains and develops other engineers.
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities/Experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related area, or equivalent work experience.
- Building out a scalable multi-tenant AWS private and public cloud environment that meets the architectural requirements of the cloud platform
- Familiar with software development to drive data & analytic efforts using Java and either Scala or Python as the programming languages.
- Developer experience building applications/solutions using public/private cloud infrastructure
- AWS Knowledge and experience - Lambda, API Gateway, EC2, S3 etc.
- Database knowledge – Oracle or Any No SQL DB like Couchbase, MongoDB, DocumentDB
- Experience with CICD (continuous integration & delivery) pipelines
- Automation, Configuration Management (e.g. Ansible, Puppet), Dev-ops practices
- Familiarity with Linux Containers / Docker / Kubernetes.
Desired Experience
- 2+ Experience as a Big Data Engineer or System Engineer
- Good understanding of data flow, data governance principles
- Familiar with Development frameworks: Hibernate, Micro Service, Spring boot, Spring Cloud, Spring Integration
- Familiar with Messaging/Streaming: JMS, Kafka/Kinesis
Good Work. Good Life. Good Hands®.
As a Fortune 100 company and industry leader, we provide a competitive salary – but that’s just the beginning. Our Total Rewards package also offers benefits like tuition assistance, medical and dental insurance, as well as a robust pension and 401(k). Plus, you’ll have access to a wide variety of programs to help you balance your work and personal life -- including a generous paid time off policy.
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Allstate generally does not sponsor individuals for employment-based visas for this position.
Effective July 1, 2014, under Indiana House Enrolled Act (HEA) 1242, it is against public policy of the State of Indiana and a discriminatory practice for an employer to discriminate against a prospective employee on the basis of status as a veteran by refusing to employ an applicant on the basis that they are a veteran of the armed forces of the United States, a member of the Indiana National Guard or a member of a reserve component.
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Company
- Website
- https://www.allstate.com/
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