Allstate
ManagingEngineer,Database&Platform
“Managing Engineer, Database & Platform at Allstate. Skills: Database Administration, Platform Engineering, People Management. Manage, mentor, and grow a team. Own the technical roadmap for database platform services”
What You'll Achieve.
deliver operational excellence; drive improvements in scalability, availability, performance, and cost; reduce mean time to detect and recover
Industry & Context.
Root cause analysis; Risk mitigation
Reliable internet is required, with minimum speeds of 50 MB download and 5 MB upload, must have a dedicated, private workspace free from distractions, along with appropriate desk and seating
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
7+ years total experience in database administration, data platform engineering, or related roles, 3+ years in a people management or technical leadership capacity, Proven experience managing production deployments both on premises and in cloud environments, Understanding of database internals, replication, sharding, performance tuning, and backup/restore strategies, Experience with automation and orchestration tools, Familiar with CI/CD concepts and tools used to automate schema migrations and platform changes, incident management experience, ability to lead technical incident response, Excellent communication ability to partner with vendor, product, SRE, security, and engineering leadership
Nice to Have
Experience with managed database services (MongoDB Atlas, Amazon RDS/Aurora, Azure, ElastiCache), hybrid cloud architectures, Familiarity with observability stacks ( Datadog etc) and log aggregation, Knowledge of security and compliance controls relevant to data stores (encryption at rest/in transit, IAM, auditing), Experience with large‑scale data migrations and cross‑region replication, Advanced degree or relevant certifications (MongoDB Certified DBA, AWS/Azure//GCP certifications)
What You'll Do.
Own the technical roadmap for database platform services
Lead platform engineering work
Design and implement database architecture
Build and improve CI/CD and automation pipelines
Partner with product engineering
Define and enforce standards
Participate in design reviews
Lead post incident reviews
Represent the database platform across cross functional initiatives
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partner with product engineering, SRE, security, and cloud teams; Collaborates with hiring managers and senior leadership on resourcing and budget priorities; Partner with vendor, product, SRE, security, and engineering leadership
Communication Scope
Excellent communication ability
Process & Methodology
Capacity planning, Setting team goals and KPIs
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