Cyber Recovery Site Reliability Engineer (Network Security)

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

Accountabilities

• 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.

Education

• Bachelor's degree preferred

Required Experience and Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience managing computing platforms

• Experience working in a geographically dispersed team environment.

• Experience working with enterprise level IT infrastructure platforms including Network, Network Security, Storage, Compute.

Preferred Experience and Qualifications

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

• Basic understanding of network security technologies capabilities and systems (firewall administration/troubleshooting, managing CSP security controls, etc)

• Exposure and experience with both on-premises and Cloud technology infrastructures. Knowledge of Azure and/or AWS would be desirable.Knowledge of GCP would be a plus.

• Basic understanding and experience with core network switching and routing constructs (switch/routing (OSPF/BGP), load balancing and DDI)

• Understanding and experience of network security infrastructure management, such as firewall administration/troubleshooting, encryption mechanism's, and security controls in CSP's

• Exposure to virtual compute infrastructure management.

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

• The Ideal Candidate would be familiar network security technologies in both on-premises data centers as well as in cloud environments, and have experience is creating and executing orchestrated recovery playbooks of complex infrastructure and application environments which consist of multiple systems.

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Compensation

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