[Hiring] Senior AI Cloud Platform Engineer @Allstate

Role Description

As a Senior AI Cloud Platform Engineer, you'll act as a full stack engineer who builds and operates the cloud application development and hosting platforms for Allstate. You'll have primary accountability of owning, developing, implementing, and operating GenAI Cloud platforms. This role will also encompass developing, building, administering, and deploying self-service tools that enable Allstate developers to build, deploy, and operate artificial intelligence applications to solve our most complex business challenges.

Your time will be split 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'll serve as pair anchors, being an advocate of paired programming, test-driven development, infrastructure engineering, and continuous delivery on the team.

Key Responsibilities

• Serves as an anchor to enable Digital product team to GenAI analytics Platform, including 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 Vertex AI, Azure AI Foundry, AI Services, OpenAI, Agentic AI, AWS Sagemaker, and AWS Bedrock.
• Writes and builds continuous delivery pipelines to manage and automate the lifecycle of the different platform components.
• Builds, manages, and operates the infrastructure as a service layer (hosted and cloud-based platforms) that supports the different platform services.
• Leads post mortem activities to identify systemic solutions to improve the overall operations of the platform, and recommends and improves technology-related policies and procedures.
• Identifies and troubleshoots any availability and performance issues at multiple layers of deployment, from hardware, operating environment, network, and application.
• Evaluates performance trends and expected changes in demand and capacity; and establishes the appropriate scalability plans.
• Integrates different components and develops new services with a focus on open source to allow minimal friction developer interaction with the platform and application services.
• Builds, manages, and operates the infrastructure and configuration of the platform infrastructure and application environments with a focus on automation and infrastructure as code.
• Maintains and enhances existing Terraform codebase.

Qualifications

• 3 or more years of experience (Preferred)
• Knowledge of Prompt Engineering, Agentic and AI open-source ecosystem.
• Experience with Google Vertex AI.
• 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.

Skills

• Cloud Platforms: Azure, AWS, Google
• Generative AI
• Programming Languages: Python
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform (including Tofu/Env0 tools)

Compensation

Compensation offered for this role is $85,000.00 - $145,075.00 annually and is based on experience and qualifications.

Additional Information

• The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation.
• Allstate generally does not sponsor individuals for employment-based visas for this position.
• Effective July 1, 2014, under Indiana House Enrolled Act (HEA) 1242, it is against public policy of the State of Indiana to discriminate against a prospective employee on the basis of status as a veteran.
• 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.