.National General is a part of The Allstate Corporation, which means we have the same innovative drive that keeps us a step ahead of our customers' evolving needs. We offer home, auto and accident and health insurance, as well as other specialty niche insurance products, through a large network of independent insurance agents, as well as directly to consumers.Job DescriptionResponsible for Application Lifecycle Management for multiple business units. Primary duties will encompass the design and implementation of automated build and release pipelines utilizing Azure DevOps Services, supporting a .NET C# stack. Provide communication and collaboration between software development, quality assurance, business analysis, project management and infrastructure teams.Essential Duties and Responsibilities:Create and manage Azure DevOps Services build and release definitions to enable deployment to lower environments as well as production environments.Facilitate build and deployment to Development, Testing, UAT, Staging environments; provide post deploymentsupport to technical teams.Perform production deployments and assist with troubleshooting deployment issues.Serve as a liaison between application development and infrastructure teams in the establishment of needed infrastructure in the development and subsequent support of application solutions.Develop an understanding of infrastructure footprint of existing .NET solutions and utilize as a pattern to design new solutions.Serve as the SME for software development life-cycle tools that can support testing, monitoring, integration/release activities.Install, configure, troubleshoot, patch, and upgrade software application products.Monitor usage and change configurations to improve capacity or performance of servers.Participate in system performance tuning and technical troubleshooting sessions.Minimum Skills and Competencies:Bachelor Degree or in-lieu of degree, equivalent education, training and work-related experience.Working knowledge of Azure DevOps Services and GIT source management, or similar industry toolsets.Working knowledge of all phases of software development including design, coding, testing and implementation.1+ years working with or supporting application development teams.1+ years experience with distributed build/deployment.Performs work under direct supervision.Handles basic technical issues; collaborates with senior level teammates to address more complex issues.Ability to work with and understand business/client requirements.Effective interpersonal skills with the ability to establish working relationships with individuals at varying levels within the organization.Effective organizational and time management skills with the ability to work under pressure, adhere to project deadlines and procedures, multi-task and be detail-oriented.Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint).Desired Skills:Bachelor degree in Computer Science or Computer Information Systems