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Systems Engineer Consultant II

AllstateChicago, Illinois🇺🇸United StatesPosted 9 Sept 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This Systems Engineer Consultant II role at Allstate offers a fantastic opportunity to shape critical finance and insurance platforms, leveraging your expertise in hybrid and cloud infrastructure to drive innovation and ensure system reliability. You'll thrive in this collaborative, learning-driven environment if you possess strong systems engineering, scripting, and cloud skills, with the chance to mentor peers and grow your career within a renowned company. Embrace this chance to make a significant impact and advance your professional journey!

Quick Overview

Seniority
Mid Senior
Employment type
Full Time
Work mode
Hybrid
Location
Chicago, Illinois, United States
DockerGCPShellAWSSplunkAzureBashDatadogKubernetesPrometheusPythonTerraformVMware

Job Description

Allstate is seeking a Systems Engineer Consultant II to design, implement, and support secure, scalable systems powering our finance and insurance platforms. In this role, you'll architect and optimize hybrid and cloud infrastructure, automate deployments and monitoring, and resolve complex incidents to ensure availability and performance. You'll collaborate with architects, developers, and security teams, bringing strong systems engineering, scripting, and cloud skills. This position offers the chance to influence standards, mentor peers, and grow within a customer-focused, inclusive, and learning-driven culture.

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and support secure, highly available systems for Allstate's finance and insurance platforms
  • Collaborate with architects, developers, and security teams to deliver scalable infrastructure solutions
  • Automate deployments, monitoring, and incident response to improve reliability and performance
  • Troubleshoot complex system issues across on-prem and cloud environments
  • Document architectures, standards, and runbooks to ensure operational excellence
  • Contribute to continuous improvement, mentoring junior engineers and sharing best practices

Required Skills

  • Systems architecture and design
  • Linux/Windows server administration
  • Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
  • Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, Cloud
  • Formation)
  • Scripting (Python, Power
  • Shell, or Bash)
  • CI/CD tools and automation
  • Monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Splunk, Datadog, Prometheus)
  • Networking and security fundamentals
  • Virtualization and containers (VMware, Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Incident management and troubleshooting

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