Google Cloud Platform Engineer Lead (Remote, US)

About this role

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 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...