Cyber Recovery Infrastructure (SRE) 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 Cyber Recovery Infrastructure Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) is part of a team that manages and operates the Allstate Cyber Recovery Environment. The Cyber Recovery Environment consists of hardware and software platforms required to support the most critical business functions needed when normal production systems are not accessible or available. This role encompasses managing detailed system design as well as implementation, testing and coordination of operational maintenance of virtualized compute infrastructure systems and technologies associated with Cyber Attack Resiliency. The Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with a storage infrastructure focus works with other SRE’s as well as production infrastructure engineers to support the Cyber Recovery Environment platforms, manage the lifecycle of Cyber Recovery Environment assets, and to orchestrate and regularly test restoration functions.

Key Responsibilities

• Build long-term relationships within team and amongst peers by creating an environment of safety, innovation, integrity, and honest open communication.

• Set and execute platform strategy, including objectives, plans, and policies to develop and deliver innovative solutions and systems in support of enterprise goals.

• Coordinate with decision makers in other departments to identify, recommend, develop, implement, and support cost-effective technology solutions for all aspects of the organization.

• Drive decisions that have an impact on quality, availability, and effectiveness of business activities beyond immediate teams.

• Initiate and implement continuous improvements in the Cyber Recovery Environment, including automation of complex tasks and delivery of cyber-attack recovery related services

• Influence direct reports, clients, service providers and peers to successfully deliver on cyber resiliency goals and commitments.

• Partner with others in the organization to set and manage expectations associated with Allstate’s Cyber Recovery Environment, continually seek opportunities to be a thought partner and deepen relationships.

• Adapt communication approach for audiences at multiple internal and external levels.

• Develop and maintain operational documentation and architecture diagrams

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Essential Skills

• 5+ years of experience with managing storage platforms (preferred)

• Experience working in a geographically dispersed team environment. 

• Experience working with enterprise level IT storage infrastructure platforms – NAS, SAN, and/or S3 Object storage

• Exposure and experience with implementing, managing, and administering enterprise storage platforms.  Experience with at least one of the following platforms: Hitachi SAN platform, Netapp NAS platforms and/or on-premises S3 object storage platforms or similar. (experience with Scality S3 storage is a plus).

Preferred Skills

• Experience in the delivery and support of Cyber Resiliency and Recovery.

• Experience with Storage protocols – iSCSI, Fibre Channel, NFS, SMB/CIFS

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills   

• Understanding of network security infrastructure, such as firewall operation.

• Understanding of compute, storage and network infrastructure delivery through automation (IaaS)

• The Ideal Candidate would be experienced with virtualization capabilities in both on-premises data centers as well as in cloud environments and have experience in the building, security hardening, and maintenance of Nutanix AHV

• Relational Database Experience is a plus i.e. Oracle, SQL, MongoDB or other

• Cloud storage – AWS S3/EBS/EFS, Azure Blobs/Files, GCP storage is a plus

• Experience with recovery from a Cyber Recovery Vault or isolated cyber recovery environment is a plus.

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Skills

Amazon S3, Amazon S3, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Application Infrastructure, Automation, Business, Business Functions, Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud Storage, Common Internet File System (CIFS), Cost Effectiveness Analysis, Databasing, Documentations, Enterprise Storage, Fiber Channel Protocol, Firewalls, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Innovation, Innovative Solutions, Internet Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSI), IT Infrastrcuture Project Management, Microsoft Azure, MongoDB, NetApp NAS, Network Infrastructures {+ 15 more}

Compensation

Compensation offered for this role is 100,000.00 - 170,500.00 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.

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