Cloud Platform Engineer Consultant/Senior Consultant

Allstate; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Allstate is seeking a Platform Engineer Senior Consultant II to own and operate cloud platforms, enabling developers to build, deploy, and run cloud-native apps. You will advocate paired programming, TDD, and continuous delivery while mentoring juniors and delivering automation at scale.

The role focuses on Terraform-based infrastructure, AI accelerators, and enterprise cloud architecture across Azure, AWS, and GCP, in a collaborative pair-programming environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in platform engineering or cloud development.
• Experience with GenAI on cloud platforms (Azure/AWS/GCP).
• Experience with Terraform and IaC practices.

Responsibilities

• Own and operate cloud platforms for Allstate’s applications.
• Develop and deploy self-service tools for developers to build and deploy cloud-native apps.
• Lead automation efforts and mentor junior teammates.

Skills

Cloud platforms

Generative AI

Agentic AI

Python

Terraform

Tools

Azure

AWS

Google Cloud

Job description

At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life's uncertainties. And for more than 90 years, our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers' evolving needs. From advocating for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws, to being an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, and, more recently, device and identity protection.

Job Description

The Platform Engineer is a full stack engineer who builds and operates the cloud application development and hosting platforms for Allstate. This role will have the primary accountability of owning, developing, implementing and operating Allstate's Cloud platforms. This role will also encompass developing, building, administering, and deploying self-service tools that enable Allstate developers to build, deploy and operate cloud native applications. As a Platform Engineer Senior Consultant II, they will be part of an engineering team primarily working in a paired programming team, collaborating with different team members. They will split time evenly in executing operational tasks to maintain the platform and servicing customer requests; and engineering new solutions to automate the build and operational tasks. They will serve as pair anchors being advocates of paired programming, test driven development, infrastructure engineering, and continuous delivery on the team.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide in-depth expertise in GenAI on Azure and AWS cloud platforms to support and enhance technical relationships with clients. This includes delivering product and solution briefings, creating demos, executing proof-of-concept projects, and collaborating directly with product management to prioritize solutions that drive consumer adoption of Azure AI Foundry, Azure AI Services, OpenAI, Agentic AI, Vertex AI, AWS Bedrock, AWS Sagemaker.
• Recommend integration strategies, enterprise architectures, platforms, and application infrastructure required to successfully implement a complete solution using best practices on Azure/AWS/GCP AI.
• Be a trusted advisor to our consumers, helping them understand and incorporate AI accelerators into their overall cloud strategy by recommending migration paths, integration strategies, and application architecture.
• Leverage a strong understanding of product, design and business priorities to solve high impact, highly complex problems.
• Provide thought leadership, innovative ideas, and deliver cutting edge technical solutions across engineering/product teams
• Engages in conversation with consumers and collaborates with account and partner teams to drive and qualify new opportunities, understand key technical objections, and resolve technical blockers.
• Champions the engineering practices and helping teams define and setup frameworks using Terraform and automation
• Maintain and enhance existing Terraform codebase.
• Coaches junior team members.
• Ability to present ideas and solutions.

Experience

• 5 or more years of experience (Preferred)
• Knowledge of Prompt Engineering and AI open-source ecosystem.
• Experience and skills with Azure Application and AI services.
• Experience with AWS bedrock(Preferred)
• Experience with Vertex AI (Preferred)
• Knowledge of consuming large language model (LLM) and Foundational model APIs.
• Experience in Terraform development.

Skills

• Cloud Platforms: Azure, AWS, Google
• Generative AI
• Agentic AI
• Programming Languages: Python
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform (including Tofu/Env0 tools)

About Allstate

Joining our team isn't just a job - it's an opportunity. One that takes your skills and pushes them to the next level. One that encourages you to challenge the status quo. One where you can shape the future of protection while supporting causes that mean the most to you. Joining our team means being part of something bigger - a winning team making a meaningful impact.

The Allstate Corporation is one of the largest publicly held insurance providers in the United States. Ranked No. 84 in the 2023 Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by total revenue, The Allstate Corporation owns and operates 18 companies in the United States, Canada, Northern Ireland, and India. Allstate India Private Limited, also known as Allstate India, is a subsidiary of The Allstate Corporation. The India talent center was set up in 2012 and operates under the corporation's Good Hands promise. As it innovates operations and technology, Allstate India has evolved beyond its technology functions to be the critical strategic business services arm of the corporation. With offices in Bengaluru and Pune, the company offers expertise to the parent organization's business areas including technology and innovation, accounting and imaging services, policy administration, transformation solution design and support services, transformation of property liability service design