Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Allstate is an insurance company focused on protecting families and their belongings through innovative products and services. The Cloud Platform Engineer Expert architects and builds Google Cloud application development and hosting platforms, manages cloud resources, and ensures reliability, security, and scalability. The role also provides operational support, evaluates technologies, mentors engineers, and drives continuous improvement.
Responsibilities
- Designs, architects, engineers and develops the Google Cloud infrastructure for business strategies and requirements
- Influences strategy and executes engineering roadmaps around infrastructure as a service; executes strategic engineering proof of concepts around infrastructure platforms
- Champions engineering practices and helps teams define and setup frameworks for infrastructure as code and automation
- Troubleshoots availability and performance incidents, identify root cause, fix and document problems, and implement preventative measures
- Leads postmortem activities to identify systemic solutions to improve the overall operations of the platform, and recommends and improves technology related policies and procedures
- Evaluates performance trends and expected changes in demand and capacity; and establish the appropriate scalability plans
- Develops a strategy for application and infrastructure monitoring for platforms and applications aligning with enterprise strategy and overall industry trends and direction
- Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, pairing sessions, and hands-on technical leadership
Skills
- 7 or more years of experience in Cloud
- Experience with Google Cloud networking components (Cloud Interconnect, Cloud DNS, routing)
- Experience with Google AI products, Agent Platform, Cloud Storage, IAM, Compute Engine
- Experience in Terraform development
- Cloud Platforms: Google Cloud
- Generative and Agentic AI
- Programming Languages: Python
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform (including Tofu/Env0 tools)
Benefits
- Allstate provides a comprehensive technology setup, including a laptop, monitors, headset, keyboard, and mouse.
- Employees eligible to work from home also receive a monthly connectivity reimbursement to help offset internet costs.
- Fully remote work arrangement.
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