What You'll Be Working On

This is a Lead AI Cloud Platform Engineer role with Allstate in Chicago, IL. You'll act as a full stack engineer, building and operating the cloud application development and hosting platforms. You'll own, develop, implement, and operate Allstate's Cloud platforms. As a Technology Specialist with GenAI Cloud Platform expertise, you will be a technical solutions expert within our AI solutions team.

You'll collaborate with strategic product teams to define their AI strategy and prioritize use cases that deliver business value through Google's Vertex AI, AWS and Azure AI Services. Your time will split evenly between two areas: executing operational tasks to maintain the platform and service customer requests, and engineering new solutions to automate build and operational tasks. You'll serve as a pair anchor, advocating for paired programming, test driven development, infrastructure engineering, and continuous delivery on the team.

Key Responsibilities

Provide in depth expertise in GenAI on Azure and AWS cloud platforms to support and enhance technical relationships with clients
Deliver product and solution briefings, create demos, execute proof of concept projects
Collaborate directly with product management to prioritize solutions that drive consumer adoption of Azure AI Foundry, Azure AI Services, OpenAI, Agentic AI, Vertex AI, AWS Bedrock, and AWS Sagemaker
Recommend integration strategies, enterprise architectures, platforms, and application infrastructure required to implement a complete solution using best practices on Azure, AWS, and GCP AI
Be a trusted advisor to consumers, helping them understand and incorporate AI accelerators into their overall cloud strategy by recommending migration paths, integration strategies, and application architecture
Leverage a strong understanding of product, design and business priorities to solve high impact, highly complex problems
Provide thought leadership, innovative ideas, and deliver cutting edge technical solutions across engineering and product teams
Engage in conversation with consumers and collaborate with account and partner teams to drive and qualify new opportunities, understand key technical objections, and resolve technical blockers
Champion engineering practices and help teams define and setup frameworks using Terraform and automation
Maintain and enhance existing Terraform codebase
Coach junior team members
Present ideas and solutions

What You'll Need

7 or more years of experience is preferred. You should have knowledge of Prompt Engineering and the AI open source ecosystem. Experience and skills with Azure Application and AI services are required. Experience with AWS Bedrock is preferred. Experience with Vertex AI is also preferred. You'll need knowledge of consuming large language model (LLM) and foundational model APIs. Experience in Terraform development is a must.

Skills That Matter

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

Compensation

Compensation offered for this role is $110,000.00 to $181,025.00 annually and is based on experience and qualifications. The candidate offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation.

Disclaimer

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