Job Description
The Cloud Platform Engineer Lead Consultant is a full stack engineer who leads large technical cloud application development and hosting platforms for Allstate. This role has the primary accountability of building and managing Google Cloud resources while ensuring the reliability, security, and scalability of our cloud environments.

As a Cloud Platform Lead Consultant, they provide strong technical, operational, security and communication skills, evaluate new products and services, troubleshoot issues, manage blockers, automate as much as possible, model paired programming and test-driven practices, along with drive continuous improvement efforts.

Key Responsibilities

• Leads and builds Google Cloud infrastructure for business strategies and requirements

• Helps Cloud Platform Expert influence strategy and execute 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.

• Co-leads postmortem activities to identify systemic solutions to improve the overall operations of the platform, and recommends and improves technology related policies and procedures

Experience and technical skills

• 3+ 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
• Generative and Agentic AI

• Programming Languages: Python

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform (including Tofu/Env0 tools)

Supervisory Responsibilities

• This job does not have supervisory duties.

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Skills
Cloud Engineering, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Infrastructure As Code (IaC), Terraform (Software)

Compensation
Compensation offered for this role is 110,000.00 - 181,025.00 annually and is based on experience and qualifications.

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

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.

When working from home, you must have a dedicated, private workspace free from distractions, along with appropriate desk and seating. Reliable internet is required, with minimum speeds of 50 MB download and 5 MB upload.

To help create a more personal and engaging experience, we ask that you join with your camera on if your interview is virtual. Please also have a Valid Photo Identification available at the start of your interview. If you require any accommodations or have questions ahead of your interview please reach out to your recruiter.

Note: Internal candidates are only asked to join on video; a Valid Photo Identification is not needed for the interview.