Managing Engineer. Cloud Security Engineering

At Allstate great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from lifes 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.

Your role in the team

Product Security Engineering designs builds and operates enterprise security controls as software products that integrate directly into cloud platforms the software development lifecycle and core enterprise services. The organization applies modern software and cloud engineering practices to deliver scalable reliable and developer-friendly security capabilities that enable secure-by-default behaviors across the enterprise.

The Managing Engineer Cloud Security Engineering is a hands-on engineering leader responsible for building and operating cloud security capabilities in production. This role combines people leadership technical direction and delivery ownership including developing engineers guiding architecture and design decisions and ensuring the team delivers reliable scalable and effective security solutions. The Managing Engineer partners with digital product managers cloud platform teams application engineers and security stakeholders to align priorities and integrate preventative detective and responsive controls into cloud platforms and developer workflows.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead and develop an engineering team delivering cloud security controls as software products including hiring onboarding coaching performance management and career development.
• Set technical direction and drive high-quality execution across the design implementation deployment and production support of cloud security capabilities.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership through architecture and design reviews technical decision-making code reviews and support for critical implementation work.
• Own the reliability performance effectiveness and continuous improvement of the teams products in production.
• Partner with Digital Product Managers platform teams and engineering stakeholders to align roadmaps priorities dependencies and delivery plans.
• Build a strong engineering culture centered on modern delivery practices (test-driven development pair programming) fast feedback technical excellence accountability and continuous improvement.
• Translate complex cloud security needs into scalable engineering solutions reusable patterns and automated capabilities.
• Lead effective agile execution while keeping the team focused on delivery outcomes rather than process or ceremony.

Essential Skills:

• All applicants must demonstrate they have a legal right to work in the UK for employment at Allstate. Allstate is not providing sponsorship for this vacancy.
• A minimum of 4 years of professional software cloud platform or security engineering experience including ownership of production systems delivering measurable reliability performance or security outcomes.
• A minimum of 2 years of experience leading and developing engineers through people leadership and hands-on technical guidance including coaching architecture reviews design decisions and code reviews.
• Deep experience securing cloud environments across AWS Azure and GCP including cloud-native services architectures and security controls.
• Strong engineering proficiency with Python Bash Terraform and cloud-native automation tools with the ability to guide solution design review code and infrastructure as code and support the development of cloud security products.
• Ability to translate security requirements and risks into scalable engineering solutions reusable patterns and automated controls.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex engineering initiatives manage cross-team dependencies and deliver measurable outcomes.

Desirable Skills:

• Designing or operating security controls embedded into CI/CD pipelines developer workflows or shared cloud platform services.
• Familiarity with containerized environments including Kubernetes and Docker and the security considerations associated with them.
• Proven ability to influence technical decisions and drive adoption of secure patterns standards and reusable capabilities across product areas.
• Demonstrated success mentoring senior engineers and developing emerging technical leaders to strengthen long-term team capability.
• Understanding of security and operational measures such as control adoption reliability and risk reduction used to evaluate engineering outcomes and guide priorities.

Job Posting End Date: Monday 21st September 11:59pm

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Skills

Cloud Platform Cloud Security Code Reviews Mentorship Product Security Security Controls Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Technical Direction Technical Leadership

Why join us
Allstate NI is proud to be Allstates European Digital Centre of Excellence a hub for innovation and engineering excellence. Were recent winners of Best Place to Work in IT (100 employees) and Best Use of Cloud Services at the Belfast Telegraph IT Awards and weve been recognised for our community and sustainability impact with Platinum in the Northern Ireland Environmental Benchmarking Survey.

Were a product-driven cloud-first organisation delivering real outcomes through modern technology a digital product-centric talent model and a culture rooted in engineering excellence. Our teams work in cross-functional structures guided by an outcome-based delivery approach that accelerates speed agility and value.

We also invest in you. At Allstate NI your career growth matters. Youll have access to our Continuous Learning Hub designed to support skills development and professional advancement through tailored learning paths certifications and mentoring opportunities. Whether youre deepening technical expertise or exploring leadership roles we provide the tools and support to help you thrive.

As well as receiving a competitive annual salary our reward package includes:

• Corporate bonus scheme
• Pension scheme
• Annual performance-related pay reviews
• Life assurance and income protection
• Flexible working options
• Hybrid working
• Private medical and dental insurance
• Access to an employee assistance programme
• Discounted gym membership
• Two paid volunteering days each year
• Cycle to work scheme

Be part of a high-performing socially responsible organisation where your work has purpose and your growth is supported every step of the way.