Vended App Lead Consultant - Microsoft 365

About the role

The Vended App Lead Consultant is responsible for driving sales growth by engaging with interested prospective customers, primarily through inbound and proactive outbound calls with active insurance shoppers. Enjoy competitive compensation with a base salary and uncapped performance-based incentives. The role involves selling reputable products from Allstate and its family of brands.

Responsibilities

• Designs, builds, manages, and operates the infrastructure and configuration of the platform infrastructure and application environments with a focus on automation and infrastructure as code.
• Leads a team in engineering practices around test driven and continuous delivery of infrastructure.
• Designs, builds, manages, and operates the continuous delivery framework and tools, managing and automating the lifecycle of the different platform components.
• Designs, builds, manages, and operates the infrastructure as a service layer (hosted and cloud-based platforms) that supports the different platform services.
• Develops comprehensive monitoring solutions to provide full visibility to the different platform components using tools and services like Datadog, New Relic, Azure Monitor, and other similar tools.
• Develops a log analytics solution to provide logging-as-a-service to hosted applications based on open-source solutions.
• Integrates different components and develops new services with a focus on open source to allow minimal friction developer interaction with the platform and application services.
• Evaluates performance trends and expected changes in demand and capacity; establishes the appropriate scalability plans.
• Identifies and troubleshoots any availability and performance issues at multiple layers of deployment, from hardware, operating environment, network, and application.
• Recommends and maintains technology-related policies and procedures.

Requirements

Minimum 5 years’ experience with Azure Cloud Services. Experience with GCP services such as Compute, IAM, Networking, and image management. Experience in Infrastructure Engineering, Infrastructure Operations, and Application Knowledge. Experience in testing and programming. Experience in mentoring team members on engineering practices including extreme programming, cloud/as-a-service approach, and infrastructure as code. Willingness and competence in producing necessary changes in infrastructure and processes. Ability to work in an Extreme Programming environment and work in a paired programming/engineering model. Ability to facilitate diverse teams, multi-task, and work under pressure to meet aggressive schedule targets. Ability to work effectively across organizational and geographical boundaries. Identify creative solutions for technical support issues. Ability to communicate effectively across groups of diverse backgrounds. Ability to present ideas and solutions with clarity to various levels.

Qualifications

Deep level of understanding of Microsoft Entra ID and its relationship between Azure and M365. Deep level of understanding of Azure Management Groups and Policy. Deep level of understanding of Azure Regions, Availability Zones, VNets, Private Endpoints and Express Route. Experience in Infrastructure Engineering, Infrastructure Operations, and Application Knowledge. Experience in testing and programming. Experience in mentoring team members on engineering practices including extreme programming, cloud/as-a-service approach, and infrastructure as code. Willingness and competence in producing necessary changes in infrastructure and processes. Ability to work in an Extreme Programming environment and work in a paired programming/engineering model. Ability to facilitate diverse teams, multi-task, and work under pressure to meet aggressive schedule targets. Ability to work effectively across organizational and geographical boundaries. Identify creative solutions for technical support issues. Ability to communicate effectively across groups of diverse backgrounds. Ability to present ideas and solutions with clarity to various levels.

Skills

• Availability Management
• Azure ExpressRoute
• Azure Monitor
• Business Processes
• Cloud IAM
• Datadog
• Endpoint Management
• ERP Applications
• Functional Designs
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Group Policy Management
• Image Management
• Infrastructure Engineering
• Integration Testing
• IT Networking
• Military Service
• Microsoft Azure Cloud Services
• Microsoft Entra ID (Azure Active Directory)
• Microsoft Office 365
• New Relic
• Product Features
• Terraform (Software)

Pay

Base compensation offered for this role is $120,000.00 – $185,000.00 annually and is based on experience and qualifications. Total compensation for this role is comprised of several factors, including the base compensation outlined above, plus incentive pay (i.e., commission, bonus, etc.) as applicable for the role.

Schedule

The role requires working remotely.