[Remote] Platform Consultant Senior Expert (Cloud & AWS Platform Focus)
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Allstate is a company dedicated to protecting families and their belongings from uncertainties. They are seeking a Platform Consultant Senior Expert with a focus on Cloud and AWS to design and operate enterprise-scale cloud platforms, ensuring reliability and operational excellence.
Responsibilities
- Design and evolve enterprise-scale cloud platform architectures
- Serve as a senior technical authority for AWS-based platforms and services
- Guide architecture decisions related to scalability, availability, security, and cost
- Own and improve cloud platform reliability, automation, and operational practices
- Partner with application teams, security, and operations on production readiness
- Troubleshoot complex cloud and platform issues
- Provide advisory and enablement support across engineering teams
- Influence cloud governance, identity, and platform standards
- Evaluate emerging cloud technologies and share insights across the platform community
- Build trust and influence with engineering directors, principal engineers, and design leaders to shape backlogs and engineering practices
- Apply industry standards and evaluate emerging technologies, sharing relevant insights with the broader engineering community
- Act as a collaborative thought leader by questioning assumptions and considering downstream implications of technical decisions
Skills
- 10+ years of experience in cloud engineering or platform engineering roles
- Deep hands-on expertise with AWS
- Experience with AWS IAM, AWS Lambda, and core compute services
- Experience supporting production applications running in AWS
- Strong understanding of cloud architecture patterns and operational tradeoffs
- Experience with platform reliability, monitoring, and incident response
- Experience operating in regulated or risk-aware enterprise environments
- Exposure to AWS Connect
- Event-driven system or orchestration experience
- Prior software engineering experience (Java, JavaScript, or similar)
- Familiarity with Redis or caching technologies
- Experience supporting shared platforms used by large engineering organizations
- 10 or more years of experience (Preferred)
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