3 days ago
Belfast, United KingdomMid Level
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate cloud-native security controls as software products across cloud infrastructure, data platforms, and application services.
- Engineer and maintain CSPM and DLP capabilities to detect, assess, and reduce cloud risk.
- Integrate security controls with cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines, shared enterprise services, SIEM, and security tooling.
- Engineer detection logic, automation, and response mechanisms to support incident containment, recovery, investigation, and response.
- Apply cloud and software engineering practices including infrastructure as code, automated testing, and CI/CD to deliver reliable, scalable, and maintainable controls.
- Collaborate with platform engineers, application teams, Digital Product Managers, and security partners.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of professional software or security engineering experience, including ownership of production systems in cloud environments.
- Legal right to work in the UK for employment at Allstate.
- Hands-on experience engineering security controls within public cloud platforms such as AWS and/or Azure.
- Experience building or integrating CSPM, data protection, or DLP capabilities as engineered solutions.
- Understanding of cloud-native architectures and identity, networking, storage, and compute services.
- Ability to engineer preventative, detective, and responsive security capabilities, including detection logic, automation, and response workflows.
- Practical experience with infrastructure as code, automated testing, CI/CD, and operational feedback loops.
- Working knowledge of cloud provider security services and patterns, including identity, networking, encryption, and logging.
- Experience or exposure to policy-as-code, drift detection, automated remediation, data classification, data handling, security telemetry, logging pipelines, SIEM platforms, incident response, post-incident analysis, cloud automation, secure distributed-system design, identity-centric security, and least-privilege approaches.
- Proficiency in one or more modern programming languages such as Python, Java, or JavaScript, with the ability to write, review, and maintain production-quality code.
Benefits
- Competitive annual salary, corporate bonus scheme, pension scheme, and annual performance-related pay reviews.
- Life assurance, income protection, private medical and dental insurance, and an employee assistance programme.
- Flexible working options with hybrid working; the role is listed as hybrid or remote.
- Discounted gym membership, two paid volunteering days each year, and a cycle to work scheme.
- Access to a Continuous Learning Hub with tailored learning paths, certifications, mentoring, and career development support.
About Allstate
Allstate is a major U.S. personal-lines insurer that sells auto, homeowners, renters, and life policies to consumers through agents and direct online channels. It earns premiums and service fees across insurance and protection products, including telematics-based programs and device/identity protection. Founded in 1931 and headquartered in Northbrook, Illinois, Allstate is publicly traded on the NYSE under the ticker ALL.