Cloud Platform Engineer

Allstate Insurance Company; United States; Remote; USD 104,000 - 188,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance company is seeking a Cloud Platform Engineer to build and operate its cloud application development and hosting platforms. This role requires expertise in GenAI and collaboration with strategic product teams to enhance AI solutions. In addition to conducting presentations and creating demos, the engineer will also maintain current platforms and coach junior staff in best coding practices, enabling the company to stay ahead in the ever-evolving tech landscape.

Qualifications

• 4-year Bachelor's degree preferred.
• 7+ years of experience preferred in Cloud application development.
• Knowledge of Prompt Engineering and AI open-source ecosystem required.
• Experience with Azure and AWS services is mandatory.

Responsibilities

• Provide expertise in GenAI on Azure and AWS to support client relationships.
• Recommend integration strategies and application architecture.
• Coach junior team members and maintain existing Terraform codebase.

Skills

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Cloud Platform

Generative AI

Infrastructure As Code (IaC)

Large Language Models (LLMs)

Microsoft Azure

Prompt Engineering

Python (Programming Language)

Terraform

Education

4-year Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Terraform

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

**We have 1 position on this team open in the US & can hire at Lead Consultant or Sr Consultant II level depending on qualifications & interview evaluation.**

The Cloud Platform Engineer is a full stack engineer who builds and operates the cloud application development and hosting platforms for Allstate. The individual in this role will have the primary accountability of owning, developing, implementing and operating Allstate’s Cloud platforms.

With expertise in GenAI Cloud Platforms, you will serve as a technical solutions advisor within our AI solutions team, collaborating with strategic product teams to define their AI strategy and prioritize use cases that deliver business value through AWS and Azure AI Services. You 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. You 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, 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 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

• Engage 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.

• Champion the engineering practices and helping teams define and setup frameworks using Terraform and automation.

• Maintain and enhance existing Terraform codebase.

• Coach junior team members.

• Present ideas and solutions.

Key Qualifications

• 4-year Bachelor’s degree preferred.

• 7+ years of experience preferred in Cloud application development.

• Knowledge of Prompt Engineering and AI open-source ecosystem.

• Experience and skills with Azure Application and AI services.

• Experience with AWS bedrock preferred.

• Knowledge of consuming large language model (LLM) and Foundational model APIs.

• Experience in Terraform development.

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Skills

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Cloud Platform, Generative AI, Infrastructure As Code (IaC), Large Language Models (LLMs), Microsoft Azure, Prompt Engineering, Python (Programming Language), Terraform

Compensation

Compensation offered for this role is $104,000.00 - 187,625.00 annually and is based on experience and qualifications.

The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation.

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. And one where you can impact the future for the greater good.

You’ll do all this in a flexible environment that embraces connection and belonging. And with the recognition of several inclusivity and diversity awards, we’ve proven that Allstate empowers everyone to lead, drive change and give back where they work and live.

Good Hands. Greater Together.

Allstate generally does not sponsor individuals for employment-based visas for this position.

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