Senior Cloud Platform Engineer — Remote

Allstate Insurance Company; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 91,000 - 154,000; Full time

Job summary

Allstate's Arity unit is seeking a Cloud Platform Senior Consultant to design, build, deploy, and operate cloud-native data infrastructure across AWS and Google Cloud. You will work with databases, data streaming, and distributed systems to enable billions of miles of driving data.

You will join ODM's mission-critical stack with Terraform, Python, and CI/CD, contribute to monitoring, incident response, and cost optimization, and collaborate with application teams to improve performance and

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of software engineering or infrastructure experience, with at least 2 years in SRE, DevOps, or platform engineering operating production systems at scale.
• Hands-on experience designing, deploying, and managing cloud infrastructure on AWS and/or Google Cloud Platform, including networking, identity, and security fundamentals.
• Production experience operating data streaming platforms; hands-on work with Apache Kafka (including Amazon MSK or Confluent Kafka) and a solid understanding of partitions, consumer groups, delivery semantics, and backpressure.
• Production experience with relational and NoSQL databases; PostgreSQL required, plus familiarity with distributed data stores.
• Strong Python and Shell scripting for automation, custom tooling, and operational solutions that go beyond basic scripts.
• Strong experience with infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform), CI/CD (e.g., Jenkins, Git), Ansible, and container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes) in production environments.
• Experience implementing and automating monitoring, logging, and alerting for distributed systems (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, Datadog, or equivalent), including automated runbooks where applicable.
• Proven ability to contribute to root cause analysis for production incidents spanning infrastructure, databases, streaming pipelines, and application code layers.
• Strong problem-solving, communication, and documentation skills with a track record of ownership in on-call and incident management environments.
• Working understanding of distributed systems principles including high availability, fault tolerance, consistency models, and disaster recovery.

Responsibilities

• Build, operate, and optimize data streaming infrastructure using Amazon MSK (Kafka) or Google Pub/Sub to support real-time and batch data pipelines.
• Design, deploy, and manage highly available database and caching platforms—including PostgreSQL, Redis, Valkey, Amazon Redshift, and Google BigQuery—across multi-cloud environments.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud automation using Terraform, Python and industry-standard tooling to enable repeatable, secure deployments.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, and observability for data platform services to proactively detect and resolve issues before they impact customers.
• Partner with application development teams to troubleshoot, tune, and optimize application performance, query patterns, and data access layers backed by team-managed platforms.
• Administer and optimize analytics and query engines including Starburst Galaxy and AWS Athena to deliver performant, cost-effective access to large-scale datasets.
• Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews for production database and streaming systems; drive remediation and preventive improvements.
• Share on-call rotation to provide support for mission-critical data infrastructure.
• Review application source code, identify performance or reliability issues, and collaborate on targeted fixes or optimization guidance with development teams.
• Evaluate emerging tools and automation approaches—including AI-assisted workflows—to improve operational efficiency and developer experience.
• Contribute to capacity planning, disaster recovery, security hardening, and cost optimization initiatives across the data platform estate.

Skills

Amazon CloudWatch

Apache Airflow

Apache Kafka

AWS DynamoDB

Cloud Foundry

Cloud Infrastructure

Cloud Native

Cloud Platform

Datadog

Data Infrastructure

Data Pipelines

Data Query

Java

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

Software Development

Terraform

Tools

Terraform (Software)

Kubernetes (Container Orchestration)

Git

Job description

Allstate's Arity unit is seeking a Cloud Platform Senior Consultant to design, build, deploy, and operate cloud-native data infrastructure across AWS and Google Cloud. You will work with databases, data streaming, and distributed systems to enable billions of miles of driving data.

You will join ODM's mission-critical stack with Terraform, Python, and CI/CD, contribute to monitoring, incident response, and cost optimization, and collaborate with application teams to improve performance and