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 Platform Engineer is a full stack engineer who builds and operates the cloud application development and hosting platforms for Allstate. This role will have the 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. As a Platform Engineer, they will be part of an engineering team primarily working in a paired programming team, collaborating with different team members. They will split time evenly in executing operational tasks to maintain the platform and servicing customer requests; and engineering new solutions to automate the build and operational tasks. They will serve as pair anchors being advocates of paired programming, test driven development, infrastructure engineering, and continuous delivery on the team.
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Key Responsibilities
Serves as an anchor for developing log analytics solutions to provide logging-as-a-service to hosted applications based on open source solutions
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 establish the appropriate scalability plans
Integrates different components and develops new services with a focus on open source to allow a minimal friction developer interaction with the platform and application services
Builds, manages and operates the continuous delivery framework and tools
Builds, manages and operates the infrastructure and configuration of the platform infrastructure and application environments with a focus on automation and infrastructure as code
Education
4 year Bachelors Degree (Preferred)
Experience
3 or more years of experience (Preferred)
Supervisory Responsibilities
This job does not have supervisory duties.
Education & Experience (in lieu)
* In lieu of the above education requirements, an equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.
Primary Skills
Shift Time
Shift B (India)
Recruiter Info
Shriya Kumari
skuow@allstate.com
About Allstate
The Allstate Corporation is one of the largest publicly held insurance providers in the United States. Ranked No. 84 in the 2023 Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by total revenue, The Allstate Corporation owns and operates 18 companies in the United States, Canada, Northern Ireland, and India. Allstate India Private Limited, also known as Allstate India, is a subsidiary of The Allstate Corporation. The India talent center was set up in 2012 and operates under the corporation's Good Hands promise. As it innovates operations and technology, Allstate India has evolved beyond its technology functions to be the critical strategic business services arm of the corporation. With offices in Bengaluru and Pune, the company offers expertise to the parent organization's business areas including technology and innovation, accounting and imaging services, policy administration, transformation solution design and support services, transformation of property liability service design, global operations and integration, and training and transition.
Learn more about Allstate India here.