Cloud Platform Lead Consultant or Senior Consultant - Arity

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

Arity is a part of the Allstate Corporation, which means we have the same innovative drive that keeps us a step ahead of our customers' evolving needs. We collect and analyze enormous amounts of data in order to provide cutting‑edge solutions to companies invested in transportation.

We are considering both Lead Consultant or Senior Consultant levels. The Team

Our engineers are fueled by a passion to impact the future of mobility. They push the boundaries of telematics and transportation tech by creating and supporting cutting‑edge products. As part of an Agile team, they are armed with the freedom to innovate and the opportunity to see projects through from start to finish. Using a variety of languages and a top‑notch technology stack, our engineers make critical advances in areas like sensor technology, enterprise engineering and platform development.

Our team understands what it means to collaborate and communicate in an interconnected global team, all while having trust, transparency and empathy for the end user.

The Operational Data Management team is a specialized group within the Engineering department responsible for the reliability, performance, and scalability of Arity's data infrastructure. We own and operate mission‑critical database and streaming platforms—including Apache Cassandra, PostgreSQL, Redis, Valkey, Amazon Redshift, Google Big Query, Amazon MSK (Kafka), and Google Pub/Sub—as well as analytics and query layers such as Starburst Galaxy and AWS Athena.

We partner closely with application development teams to tune, troubleshoot, and optimize applications that depend on these technologies, ensuring that the data platforms powering Arity's mobility insights remain highly available and performant  Role

Arity is seeking a Cloud Platform Lead Consultant or Senior Consultant to join our Operational Data Management team within Engineering. This is a fully remote position. In this role, you will design, build, deploy, and operate cloud‑native data infrastructure across AWS and Google Cloud Platform while bringing deep hands‑on expertise in databases, data streaming, and distributed systems. You will ensure the platforms that ingest, store, and serve billions of miles of driving data remain resilient, observable, and cost‑efficient—directly enabling Arity's products and the customers who rely on them to make smarter transportation decisions.

The

ideal candidate combines cloud engineering mastery with strong database and streaming fundamentals, advanced production‑grade coding skills in Python, and demonstrated hands‑on experience building AI agents and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers to streamline Dev Ops workflows. A successful candidate rapidly adopts new technologies and delivers production‑ready solutions with them, guides application developers on performance improvements and code‑level fixes, and independently leads root‑cause analysis for complex production incidents.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage highly available database platforms including Apache Cassandra, PostgreSQL, Redis, Valkey, Amazon Redshift, and Google Big Query across multi‑cloud environments.
• Build, operate, and optimize data streaming infrastructure using Amazon MSK (Kafka), Google Pub/Sub, and Apache Flink to support real‑time and batch data pipelines.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure‑as‑code, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud automation using Python and industry‑standard tooling to enable repeatable, secure deployments.
• Implement comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and observability for data platform services to proactively detect and resolve issues before they impact customers.
• Partner with application development teams to troubleshoot, tune, and optimize…