Redis & Cloud In‑Memory DB Platform Engineer

Allstate; Indiana; On-site; USD 80,000 - 137,000; Full time

Job summary

Allstate is seeking an In-Memory Database Platform Engineer to join the Database Engineering team. You will build, operate, and modernize Redis environments across on-premises infrastructure and cloud-managed services, focusing on reliability, security, performance, and high availability.

The role collaborates with application, security, SRE, network, and cloud engineers to scale platform design, automation, and troubleshooting. Prior Redis admin experience and strong Linux skills are essential.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of database administration, database engineering, platform engineering, or related infrastructure experience.
• 2+ years of hands-on Redis administration or engineering experience in production or enterprise environments.
• Working knowledge of Redis architecture, persistence, replication, clustering, memory management, security, maintenance, and performance tuning.
• Hands-on experience with high availability, backup/recovery or persistence strategies, monitoring, capacity planning, and production support.
• Experience with at least one cloud-managed in-memory database service or comparable cloud database platform.

Responsibilities

• Build, deploy, administer, and support production and non-production Redis environments across on-premises and cloud-managed services.
• Perform installation, configuration, patching, version upgrades, migrations, lifecycle management, and routine platform maintenance.
• Support Redis standalone, replication, and clustered architectures as applicable to the platform and workload.
• Partner with application teams on connectivity, caching patterns, and data structures for performance and resilience.
• Configure and operate persistence, backup, retention, restore, and recovery-validation processes where supported and required.

Skills

Redis administration

Linux administration

Cloud in-memory databases

Tools

Redis Enterprise

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Allstate is seeking an In-Memory Database Platform Engineer to join the Database Engineering team. You will build, operate, and modernize Redis environments across on-premises infrastructure and cloud-managed services, focusing on reliability, security, performance, and high availability.

The role collaborates with application, security, SRE, network, and cloud engineers to scale platform design, automation, and troubleshooting. Prior Redis admin experience and strong Linux skills are essential.