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You'll do all this in an environment of excellence and the highest ethical standards - a place where values such as integrity, inclusive diversity and accountability are paramount. We empower every employee to lead, drive change and give back where they work and live. Our people are our greatest strength, and we work as one team in service of our customers and communities.
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Job Summary:
The Senior Service Engineer is responsible for researching, designing, building, testing, deploying, analyzing, administering, and maintaining environments and hardware and software technology components to meet current and future business needs. This includes monitoring and controlling the performance and status of technology components and providing technology component support and problem resolution. The Service Engineer (SE) Sr. Consultant Level 2 leads efforts to research, design, plan and maintain new or existing hardware and software technology components. The SE Sr. Consultant utilizes systems, scripting and developer skills to execute on tasks related to analysis, integration, and moderately to highly complex incidents and problems affecting production systems and multiple applications. This role also helps define and update items in the configuration management plan.
Key Responsibilities:
• Lead the completion of the following activities (concerning new hardware and software technology components or enhancements to existing components): research, analysis, design, selection, planning, and engineering.

• Collaborate to build consensus with other Service Engineers to ensure that the modified hardware and software infrastructure interacts appropriately, data conversion impacts are considered, and other areas of impact are addressed and meet business function and performance requirements.
• Lead execution of testing, debugging, performance analysis, and documenting hardware and software technology components.
• Lead implementation of hardware and software technology components by analyzing the current system environment and infrastructure, using technical tools and utilities, and performing complex product customizations.
• Lead the support of production service requests, performing routine administration, and supporting hardware and software infrastructure.
• Lead complex, hardware and software technology component analysis, and evaluation on resource requirements necessary to maintain/expand service levels or tune hardware and software infrastructure components for optimum performance.
• Lead efforts to ensure plans integrate effectively with other aspects of the technical hardware and software components.
• Resolve incidents and perform root cause analysis, escalating high complexity incidents and problems to provide future application, hardware and/or software resiliency.
• Lead identifying and recommending major and significant changes for purposes of incident avoidance.
• Lead the development and update of the configuration management plan.
Supervisory Responsibilities:
This job does not have supervisory duties.
Education and Experience:
• 4 year Bachelors Degree (Preferred)

• 3 or more years of experience (Preferred)
• In lieu of the above education requirements, an equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:
• Technology certification preferred (i.e. Windows 2xxx, Citrix, Storage, Hardware, ITIL, etc.) (Preferred)
Functional Skills:

• Application configuration and support including SSL certificates, IIS, load balancing, DNS, DFS.
• Application monitoring via tools such as DataDog, Splunk, Grafana ELK, Spectrum, Reveille, DynaTrace, etc
• Application and desktop virtualization (VDI) Citrix and or VMware.
• CICD technologies such as GitHub, Jenkins, Artifactory, SonarQube, Agent Smith, Compliance Buddy, Ethan, Contrast
• Telecom management of call trees and end users using products like Avaya, Korbyt, Verint, Symon etc.
• Experience with Mainframe and or AS400 iSeries is a plus.

Notes:
Compensation offered for this role is $68,500.00-$121,375.00 per year and is based on experience and qualifications.
The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation, which includes a drug screen.
Good Work. Good Life. Good Hands.
As a Fortune 100 company and industry leader, we provide a competitive salary - but that's just the beginning. Our Total Rewards package also offers benefits like tuition assistance, medical and dental insurance, as well as a robust pension and 401(k). Plus, you'll have access to a wide variety of programs to help you balance your work and personal life -- including a generous paid time off policy. For a full description of Allstate's benefits, visit https://www.allstate.jobs/benefits/
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