Google Cloud Platform Engineer Expert (Remote, US)

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. 

As a Cloud Platform Expert, the engineer is a team anchor serving as a thought leader in advocating technology solutions and engineering practices that define product engineering. They evaluate new products, software, and projects while leading the effort to adapt these technologies into the platform. They provide operational support, mentor engineers, model paired programming and test-driven practices, and drive continuous improvement efforts. 

• →Designs, architects, engineers and develops the Google Cloud infrastructure for business strategies and requirements 
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  Influences strategy and executes engineering roadmaps around infrastructure as a service; executes strategic engineering proof of concepts around infrastructure platforms 

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  Champions engineering practices and helps teams define and setup frameworks for infrastructure as code and automation 

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  Troubleshoots availability and performance incidents, identify root cause, fix and document problems, and implement preventative measures. 

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

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  Evaluates performance trends and expected changes in demand and capacity; and establish the appropriate scalability plans 

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  Develops a strategy for application and infrastructure monitoring for platforms and applications aligning with enterprise strategy and overall industry trends and direction 

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  Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, pairing sessions, and hands-on technical leadership. 

• This job does not have supervisory duties.

• 7 or more 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 

• Cloud Platforms: Google Cloud 

• Generative and Agentic AI 

• Programming Languages: Python 

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

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