Cloud Platform Lead Engineer

About this role

About the Company

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.

About the Role

The Platform Engineer is a full stack engineer who builds 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 Lead Consultant, they will be a team anchor for engineering teams primarily working in a paired programming team, collaborating with different team members. They anchor the shared and collective knowledge of the team about the system they own and manage. They will lead a team in engineering and building out new platform products and services. They will lead the team and ensure that SLAs are met in executing operational tasks to maintain the platform and servicing customer requests. They will lead the engineering practices to improve the efficiency of the system itself, and the efficiency of the team in running said system. They will serve as a team anchor and establish practices for paired programming, test driven development, infrastructure engineering, and continuous delivery on the team.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, build, and operation of cloud infrastructure supporting ML experimentation, training, and production deployments.
• Define technical direction and best practices for ML platforms, MLOps, reliability, and cloud infrastruct...