IT Infrastructure Lead Consultant - Remote

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

The Infrastructure Lead Consultant is responsible for creating, supporting, and integrating processes and tools that enable the delivery of infrastructure services. This involves providing critical analysis and guidance on infrastructure processes, monitoring, reporting, metrics, tools, and operational activities. The Technician Infrastructure Analyst (IA) leads infrastructure selection, development, implementation and maintenance by overseeing incident support and resolution efforts. The Technician IA plans and manages tasks related to automated monitoring and alerting solutions, metrics and reporting, new applications integration, and incident trending and analysis. The role provides problem management communications to senior leadership, oversees change implementation, communicates infrastructure changes to all stakeholders, and provides infrastructure-related communications and training.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead incident trending and analysis work across multiple technologies to identify potential problems and drive those recommendations to resolution.
• Ensure the execution of day-to-day procedural activities, which may include recovery support to the rest of Operations and includes communication status updates to various support teams based on published documentation.
• Validate operational security for applicable tools processes through reporting and communication of security breaches.
• Facilitate and oversee the implementation of technical and administrative changes.
• Plan and manage tasks to create metrics and reporting solutions that enable improved infrastructure service delivery, including requirements definition, scripting/programming, and testing.
• Plan and manage tasks to integrate new or revised critical/priority applications with operational support tools to provide automated monitoring and alerting, including requirements definition, documentation, escalation communication groups, coordination of scripting/programming, and testing.
• Provide focus and the highest level of rigor around high availability incidents (e.g. incidents with Cloud Services and connectivity), driving the incidents which are user impacting, high profile and/or multi-application (e.g. Entra, AD and Bastion Hosts) through to resolution, while communicating the status (outages and returns to service) to leadership.
• Manage/lead effort to determine the originating factors for a given incident, and develop and communicate recommendations for preventing repetition to key stakeholders.
• Plan and manage tasks to create, revise, implement automation solutions for infrastructure production control processing monitoring and alerting, including requirements definition, scripting/programming, and testing,

Essential Skills

• 5+ years of experience in infrastructure management, with hands-on experience in AWS and Azure preferred.
• Solid experience with Microsoft Entra is preferred.
• Minimum of 2 years of hands-on experience with Terraform is required.

#LI-NJ1 Skills Automation Solutions, Communication, Computer Programming, Data Center Management, Disaster Recovery (DR), Documentations, Executive Leadership, Incident Management, Information Technology (IT) Infrastructure, Infrastructure Design, Infrastructure Management (IM), Infrastructure Services, Microsoft Applications, Microsoft Azure, Operational Activities, Operations Support, Root Cause Analysis (RCA), Security Monitoring, Terraform

Compensation

Compensation offered for this role is 98,100.00 - 167,850.00 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. One where you can shape the future of protection while supporting causes that mean the most to you. Joining our team means being part of something bigger - a winning team making a meaningful impact. 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. For jobs in San Francisco, please click "here" for information regarding the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. For jobs in Los Angeles, please click "here" for information regarding the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. To view the "EEO Know Your Rights" poster click "here". This poster provides information concerning the laws and procedures for filing complaints of violations of the laws with the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs. To view the FMLA poster, click "here". This poster summarizing the major provisions of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and telling employees how to file a complaint. It is the Company's policy to employ the best qualified individuals available for all jobs. Therefore, any discriminatory action taken on account of an employee's ancestry, age, color, disability, genetic information, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual and reproductive health decision, marital status, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, race (include traits historically associated with race, including, but not limited to, hair texture and protective hairstyles), religion (including religious dress), sex, or sexual orientation that adversely affects an employee's terms or conditions of employment is prohibited. This policy applies to all aspects of the employment relationship, including, but not limited to, hiring, training, salary administration, promotion, job assignment, benefits, discipline, and separation of employment. Apply tot his job Apply To this Job