[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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