Allstate
Managing Engineer – Database & Platform (Hybrid)
Key aspects of the role:
- Drive sales growth by engaging with interested prospective customers- all while working remote
- No cold calling— Connect through inbound calls and proactive outbound calls with active insurance shoppers
- Enjoy competitive compensation with a base salary + uncapped performance-based incentives
- Sell reputable products from Allstate and our family of brands
Role overview
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.
Your role in the team
We are seeking a Managing Engineer to lead our Database & Platform Engineering team responsible for on prem and cloud databases (MySQL, Redis, MongoDB, and MongoDB Atlas etc). You will manage a team of Database Administrators/Platform Engineers who build, operate, and evolve the platform services that enable product teams to ship features safely and quickly. This role combines people leadership, technical ownership of database platform architecture, and hands on partnering with product and SRE teams to deliver operational excellence.
Key responsibilities
-
Manage, mentor, and grow a team of Database Administrators / Platform Engineers (hiring, performance reviews, career development, coaching).
-
Own the technical roadmap for database platform services (MySQL, Redis, MongoDB on prem, and MongoDB Atlas), driving improvements in scalability, availability, performance, and cost.
-
Lead platform engineering work: installation, configuration, upgrades, automation, backup/restore, patching, capacity planning, and runbooks for production systems.
-
Design and implement database architecture and operational patterns (sharding/replication strategies, high availability, disaster recovery, backup retention, and failover).
-
Build and improve CI/CD and automation pipelines for database provisioning, schema changes, migrations, and configuration management.
-
Partner with product engineering, SRE, security, and cloud teams to define SLAs/SLOs, incident response, root cause analysis, and risk mitigation.
-
Establish monitoring, alerting, and observability for database health and performance. Drive proactive incident prevention.
-
Define and enforce standards, best practices, and governance for database access, security, backups, and compliance.
-
Participate in design reviews, capacity planning, and product inception to translate feature requirements into scalable data solutions.
-
Lead post incident reviews and continuous improvement initiatives to reduce mean time to detect and recover.
-
Represent the database platform across cross functional initiatives and influence long term architecture decisions.
Essential Criteria
-
5+ years total experience in database administration, data platform engineering, or related roles with 3+ years in a people management or technical leadership capacity.
-
A minimum of 3+ years of hands-on experience working with MongoDB, including deployment, optimization, and support of production environments.
-
Proven experience managing production deployments both on premises and in cloud environments.
-
Strong understanding of database internals, replication, sharding, performance tuning, and backup/restore strategies.
-
Proven experience designing and building database solutions, including schema design, data modelling, indexing strategies, query optimization, and implementing scalable, highly available data architectures.
-
Experience with automation and orchestration tools.
-
Familiar with CI/CD concepts and tools used to automate schema migrations and platform changes.
-
Strong incident management experience and ability to lead technical incident response.
-
Excellent communication skills; ability to partner with vendor, product, SRE, security, and engineering leadership.
Desirable Criteria
-
Experience with managed database services (MongoDB Atlas, Amazon RDS, Aurora, Azure, ElastiCache) and 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.
-
Relevant certifications (MongoDB Certified DBA, AWS/Azure//GCP certifications).
Supervisory responsibilities
Directly manage a team of 4-10 Database Administrators / Platform Engineers. Responsible for staffing, performance management, career development, and setting team goals and KPIs. Collaborates with hiring managers and senior leadership on resourcing and budget priorities.
Job Posting End Date: Monday 29th June 2026 [11.59pm]
#Hybrid #MM4
Skills
Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), Analytical Thinking, Business Strategies, Cloud Architectures, Coaching, Collaboration, Collaborative Development, Communication, Compliance, Computer Backups, Continuous Improvement, Continuous Improvement Initiatives, Cross-Functional Teamwork, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Data Analytics, Database Administration, Database Architecture, Database Internals, Databasing, Disaster Recovery (DR), Employee Performance Evaluations, Executive Leadership, Failover {+ 23 more}
Shape the Future of Insurance with Cutting-Edge Tech and a People-First Culture
Why join us?
Allstate NI is proud to be Allstate’s European Digital Centre of Excellence, a hub for innovation and engineering excellence. We’re recent winners of Best Place to Work in IT (100+ employees) and Best Use of Cloud Services at the Belfast Telegraph IT Awards, and we’ve been recognised for our community and sustainability impact with Platinum in the Northern Ireland Environmental Benchmarking Survey.
We’re a product-driven, cloud-first organisation delivering real outcomes through modern technology, a digital product-centric talent model, and a culture rooted in engineering excellence. Our teams work in cross-functional structures, guided by an outcome-based delivery approach that accelerates speed, agility, and value.
We also invest in you. At Allstate NI, your career growth matters. You’ll have access to our Continuous Learning Hub, designed to support skills development and professional advancement through tailored learning paths, certifications, and mentoring opportunities. Whether you’re deepening technical expertise or exploring leadership roles, we provide the tools and support to help you thrive.
What do you get in return?
As well as receiving a competitive annual salary, our reward package includes:
- Corporate bonus scheme
- Pension scheme
- Annual performance-related pay reviews
- Life assurance and income protection
- Flexible working options
- Hybrid working
- Private medical and dental insurance
- Access to an employee assistance programme
- Discounted gym membership
- Two paid volunteering days each year
- Cycle to work scheme
Be part of a high-performing, socially responsible organisation where your work has purpose, and your growth is supported every step of the way.
Keys to Success
At Allstate, it’s all about teamwork, flexibility, and thinking ahead. We all contribute to the bigger picture, combining unique ideas to design innovative, more affordable protection solutions for customers.
We look for candidates with these skills to help us achieve that goal:
Learning agility
Quickly adapt to new situations, continually build new skills, experiment, and embrace new ways of doing things
Customer centricity
Deliver exceptional experience with a customer-first mindset and human-centered design
Digital literacy
Discover and apply emerging digital technology tools, data and insights.
Results-oriented
Start with measurable outcomes and drive results with speed
Inclusive leadership
Integrate diverse viewpoints into decision-making processes to enhance creativity and innovation
Together, we’re all working toward Our Shared Purpose, using our strengths to make a real difference for our people, our customers, our company, and the world around us.
Working in Sales
What We Do:
As an expert on our products and services, you can give customers personalized attention and innovative solutions to make their lives easier.
How We Support You:
Starting day one, you’ll have access to resources and incentives to keep you feeling challenged and excited about your careers.
Make An Impact:
As a member of our sales team, you’ll bring a sense of ease and support to customers looking for a better understanding of their protection options. Whether in the field or talking to customers over the phone, you’ll continue to build trust in who we are and what we do.
Working together
You’re in Good Hands® is more than a promise we make to our customers. It’s a promise we make to our employees, too.
We want you to love where you work. That starts with the freedom to be yourself. Our workplace flexibility and focus on individuality means everyone is seen, heard and respected.
When you join us, you’ll have the opportunity to push your skills to the next level with access to development programs to support your career aspirations – whatever that means for you. Because as you learn and grow, so do we.
Working here also means getting the chance to make a real impact in your community. We have been driving change for over 90 years, but the mark we leave on the world can be even greater when we work together.
Role overview
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.
Your role in the team
We are seeking a Managing Engineer to lead our Database & Platform Engineering team responsible for on prem and cloud databases (MySQL, Redis, MongoDB, and MongoDB Atlas etc). You will manage a team of Database Administrators/Platform Engineers who build, operate, and evolve the platform services that enable product teams to ship features safely and quickly. This role combines people leadership, technical ownership of database platform architecture, and hands on partnering with product and SRE teams to deliver operational excellence.
Key responsibilities
-
Manage, mentor, and grow a team of Database Administrators / Platform Engineers (hiring, performance reviews, career development, coaching).
-
Own the technical roadmap for database platform services (MySQL, Redis, MongoDB on prem, and MongoDB Atlas), driving improvements in scalability, availability, performance, and cost.
-
Lead platform engineering work: installation, configuration, upgrades, automation, backup/restore, patching, capacity planning, and runbooks for production systems.
-
Design and implement database architecture and operational patterns (sharding/replication strategies, high availability, disaster recovery, backup retention, and failover).
-
Build and improve CI/CD and automation pipelines for database provisioning, schema changes, migrations, and configuration management.
-
Partner with product engineering, SRE, security, and cloud teams to define SLAs/SLOs, incident response, root cause analysis, and risk mitigation.
-
Establish monitoring, alerting, and observability for database health and performance. Drive proactive incident prevention.
-
Define and enforce standards, best practices, and governance for database access, security, backups, and compliance.
-
Participate in design reviews, capacity planning, and product inception to translate feature requirements into scalable data solutions.
-
Lead post incident reviews and continuous improvement initiatives to reduce mean time to detect and recover.
-
Represent the database platform across cross functional initiatives and influence long term architecture decisions.
Essential Criteria
-
5+ years total experience in database administration, data platform engineering, or related roles with 3+ years in a people management or technical leadership capacity.
-
A minimum of 3+ years of hands-on experience working with MongoDB, including deployment, optimization, and support of production environments.
-
Proven experience managing production deployments both on premises and in cloud environments.
-
Strong understanding of database internals, replication, sharding, performance tuning, and backup/restore strategies.
-
Proven experience designing and building database solutions, including schema design, data modelling, indexing strategies, query optimization, and implementing scalable, highly available data architectures.
-
Experience with automation and orchestration tools.
-
Familiar with CI/CD concepts and tools used to automate schema migrations and platform changes.
-
Strong incident management experience and ability to lead technical incident response.
-
Excellent communication skills; ability to partner with vendor, product, SRE, security, and engineering leadership.
Desirable Criteria
-
Experience with managed database services (MongoDB Atlas, Amazon RDS, Aurora, Azure, ElastiCache) and 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.
-
Relevant certifications (MongoDB Certified DBA, AWS/Azure//GCP certifications).
Supervisory responsibilities
Directly manage a team of 4-10 Database Administrators / Platform Engineers. Responsible for staffing, performance management, career development, and setting team goals and KPIs. Collaborates with hiring managers and senior leadership on resourcing and budget priorities.
Job Posting End Date: Monday 29th June 2026 [11.59pm]
#Hybrid #MM4
Skills
Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), Analytical Thinking, Business Strategies, Cloud Architectures, Coaching, Collaboration, Collaborative Development, Communication, Compliance, Computer Backups, Continuous Improvement, Continuous Improvement Initiatives, Cross-Functional Teamwork, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Data Analytics, Database Administration, Database Architecture, Database Internals, Databasing, Disaster Recovery (DR), Employee Performance Evaluations, Executive Leadership, Failover {+ 23 more}
Shape the Future of Insurance with Cutting-Edge Tech and a People-First Culture
Why join us?
Allstate NI is proud to be Allstate’s European Digital Centre of Excellence, a hub for innovation and engineering excellence. We’re recent winners of Best Place to Work in IT (100+ employees) and Best Use of Cloud Services at the Belfast Telegraph IT Awards, and we’ve been recognised for our community and sustainability impact with Platinum in the Northern Ireland Environmental Benchmarking Survey.
We’re a product-driven, cloud-first organisation delivering real outcomes through modern technology, a digital product-centric talent model, and a culture rooted in engineering excellence. Our teams work in cross-functional structures, guided by an outcome-based delivery approach that accelerates speed, agility, and value.
We also invest in you. At Allstate NI, your career growth matters. You’ll have access to our Continuous Learning Hub, designed to support skills development and professional advancement through tailored learning paths, certifications, and mentoring opportunities. Whether you’re deepening technical expertise or exploring leadership roles, we provide the tools and support to help you thrive.
What do you get in return?
As well as receiving a competitive annual salary, our reward package includes:
- Corporate bonus scheme
- Pension scheme
- Annual performance-related pay reviews
- Life assurance and income protection
- Flexible working options
- Hybrid working
- Private medical and dental insurance
- Access to an employee assistance programme
- Discounted gym membership
- Two paid volunteering days each year
- Cycle to work scheme
Be part of a high-performing, socially responsible organisation where your work has purpose, and your growth is supported every step of the way.
Keys to Success
At Allstate, it’s all about teamwork, flexibility, and thinking ahead. We all contribute to the bigger picture, combining unique ideas to design innovative, more affordable protection solutions for customers.
We look for candidates with these skills to help us achieve that goal:
Learning agility
Quickly adapt to new situations, continually build new skills, experiment, and embrace new ways of doing things
Customer centricity
Deliver exceptional experience with a customer-first mindset and human-centered design
Digital literacy
Discover and apply emerging digital technology tools, data and insights.
Results-oriented
Start with measurable outcomes and drive results with speed
Inclusive leadership
Integrate diverse viewpoints into decision-making processes to enhance creativity and innovation
Together, we’re all working toward Our Shared Purpose, using our strengths to make a real difference for our people, our customers, our company, and the world around us.
Working in Claims
What We Do:
Your ability to quickly and calmly make smart decisions can make a huge difference in how confident customers feel throughout the claims process. And as you support our customers, we’re there to support you.
How We Support You:
We empower your success starting day one. You’ll have access to everything you need to grow professionally while helping our customers get their lives back on track.
Make An Impact:
Helping customers with their claims is about learning their stories, not just processing their paperwork. You can take pride in the fact that you’re providing invaluable guidance and helping to build continued trust in our company.
Working together
You’re in Good Hands® is more than a promise we make to our customers. It’s a promise we make to our employees, too.
We want you to love where you work. That starts with the freedom to be yourself. Our workplace flexibility and focus on individuality means everyone is seen, heard and respected.
When you join us, you’ll have the opportunity to push your skills to the next level with access to development programs to support your career aspirations – whatever that means for you. Because as you learn and grow, so do we.
Working here also means getting the chance to make a real impact in your community. We have been driving change for over 90 years, but the mark we leave on the world can be even greater when we work together.
Role overview
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.
Your role in the team
We are seeking a Managing Engineer to lead our Database & Platform Engineering team responsible for on prem and cloud databases (MySQL, Redis, MongoDB, and MongoDB Atlas etc). You will manage a team of Database Administrators/Platform Engineers who build, operate, and evolve the platform services that enable product teams to ship features safely and quickly. This role combines people leadership, technical ownership of database platform architecture, and hands on partnering with product and SRE teams to deliver operational excellence.
Key responsibilities
-
Manage, mentor, and grow a team of Database Administrators / Platform Engineers (hiring, performance reviews, career development, coaching).
-
Own the technical roadmap for database platform services (MySQL, Redis, MongoDB on prem, and MongoDB Atlas), driving improvements in scalability, availability, performance, and cost.
-
Lead platform engineering work: installation, configuration, upgrades, automation, backup/restore, patching, capacity planning, and runbooks for production systems.
-
Design and implement database architecture and operational patterns (sharding/replication strategies, high availability, disaster recovery, backup retention, and failover).
-
Build and improve CI/CD and automation pipelines for database provisioning, schema changes, migrations, and configuration management.
-
Partner with product engineering, SRE, security, and cloud teams to define SLAs/SLOs, incident response, root cause analysis, and risk mitigation.
-
Establish monitoring, alerting, and observability for database health and performance. Drive proactive incident prevention.
-
Define and enforce standards, best practices, and governance for database access, security, backups, and compliance.
-
Participate in design reviews, capacity planning, and product inception to translate feature requirements into scalable data solutions.
-
Lead post incident reviews and continuous improvement initiatives to reduce mean time to detect and recover.
-
Represent the database platform across cross functional initiatives and influence long term architecture decisions.
Essential Criteria
-
5+ years total experience in database administration, data platform engineering, or related roles with 3+ years in a people management or technical leadership capacity.
-
A minimum of 3+ years of hands-on experience working with MongoDB, including deployment, optimization, and support of production environments.
-
Proven experience managing production deployments both on premises and in cloud environments.
-
Strong understanding of database internals, replication, sharding, performance tuning, and backup/restore strategies.
-
Proven experience designing and building database solutions, including schema design, data modelling, indexing strategies, query optimization, and implementing scalable, highly available data architectures.
-
Experience with automation and orchestration tools.
-
Familiar with CI/CD concepts and tools used to automate schema migrations and platform changes.
-
Strong incident management experience and ability to lead technical incident response.
-
Excellent communication skills; ability to partner with vendor, product, SRE, security, and engineering leadership.
Desirable Criteria
-
Experience with managed database services (MongoDB Atlas, Amazon RDS, Aurora, Azure, ElastiCache) and 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.
-
Relevant certifications (MongoDB Certified DBA, AWS/Azure//GCP certifications).
Supervisory responsibilities
Directly manage a team of 4-10 Database Administrators / Platform Engineers. Responsible for staffing, performance management, career development, and setting team goals and KPIs. Collaborates with hiring managers and senior leadership on resourcing and budget priorities.
Job Posting End Date: Monday 29th June 2026 [11.59pm]
#Hybrid #MM4
Skills
Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), Analytical Thinking, Business Strategies, Cloud Architectures, Coaching, Collaboration, Collaborative Development, Communication, Compliance, Computer Backups, Continuous Improvement, Continuous Improvement Initiatives, Cross-Functional Teamwork, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Data Analytics, Database Administration, Database Architecture, Database Internals, Databasing, Disaster Recovery (DR), Employee Performance Evaluations, Executive Leadership, Failover {+ 23 more}
Shape the Future of Insurance with Cutting-Edge Tech and a People-First Culture
Why join us?
Allstate NI is proud to be Allstate’s European Digital Centre of Excellence, a hub for innovation and engineering excellence. We’re recent winners of Best Place to Work in IT (100+ employees) and Best Use of Cloud Services at the Belfast Telegraph IT Awards, and we’ve been recognised for our community and sustainability impact with Platinum in the Northern Ireland Environmental Benchmarking Survey.
We’re a product-driven, cloud-first organisation delivering real outcomes through modern technology, a digital product-centric talent model, and a culture rooted in engineering excellence. Our teams work in cross-functional structures, guided by an outcome-based delivery approach that accelerates speed, agility, and value.
We also invest in you. At Allstate NI, your career growth matters. You’ll have access to our Continuous Learning Hub, designed to support skills development and professional advancement through tailored learning paths, certifications, and mentoring opportunities. Whether you’re deepening technical expertise or exploring leadership roles, we provide the tools and support to help you thrive.
What do you get in return?
As well as receiving a competitive annual salary, our reward package includes:
- Corporate bonus scheme
- Pension scheme
- Annual performance-related pay reviews
- Life assurance and income protection
- Flexible working options
- Hybrid working
- Private medical and dental insurance
- Access to an employee assistance programme
- Discounted gym membership
- Two paid volunteering days each year
- Cycle to work scheme
Be part of a high-performing, socially responsible organisation where your work has purpose, and your growth is supported every step of the way.
Keys to Success
At Allstate, it’s all about teamwork, flexibility, and thinking ahead. We all contribute to the bigger picture, combining unique ideas to design innovative, more affordable protection solutions for customers.
We look for candidates with these skills to help us achieve that goal:
Learning agility
Quickly adapt to new situations, continually build new skills, experiment, and embrace new ways of doing things
Customer centricity
Deliver exceptional experience with a customer-first mindset and human-centered design
Digital literacy
Discover and apply emerging digital technology tools, data and insights.
Results-oriented
Start with measurable outcomes and drive results with speed
Inclusive leadership
Integrate diverse viewpoints into decision-making processes to enhance creativity and innovation
Together, we’re all working toward Our Shared Purpose, using our strengths to make a real difference for our people, our customers, our company, and the world around us.
Working together
You’re in Good Hands® is more than a promise we make to our customers. It’s a promise we make to our employees, too.
We want you to love where you work. That starts with the freedom to be yourself. Our workplace flexibility and focus on individuality means everyone is seen, heard and respected.
When you join us, you’ll have the opportunity to push your skills to the next level with access to development programs to support your career aspirations – whatever that means for you. Because as you learn and grow, so do we.
Working here also means getting the chance to make a real impact in your community. We have been driving change for over 90 years, but the mark we leave on the world can be even greater when we work together.
Benefits
Experience the benefits that make Allstate a great place to work.
*Benefits vary based on position.
Health
- Medical, dental and vision coverage
- HSAs and FSAs
- Wellbeing programs
- Free therapy sessions
Retirement
- 401(k) plan
- Pension plan
- Free financial counseling
Work-life balance
- Paid time off
- Work flexibility
Career development
- Talent shares
- Tuition reimbursement
- Learning opportunities
For a full description of Allstate’s benefits visit our benefits page
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