Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Allstate is a leading insurance company that has been innovating for over 90 years to protect families and their belongings. They are seeking a Cloud Platform Engineer Expert who will be responsible for architecting and building cloud application development and hosting platforms, primarily focusing on Azure and GCP networking components while ensuring the reliability and security of cloud environments.
Responsibilities
- Leads, architects, engineers and develops the Azure/GCP networking 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 Azure Cloud
- Experience with Azure networking components (Express Route, Azure DNS, routing, etc.)
- Knowledge of Prompt Engineering, Agentic and AI open-source ecosystem
- Experience with GCP AI services
- Experience in Terraform development
- Cloud Platforms: Azure, Google
- Generative 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.
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