Product Engineer Lead Consultant

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

Core Engineering & Platforms (CEP) group is seeking a highly skilled and hands-on Lead Product Engineer for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to drive the development and adoption of enterprise-scale infrastructure automation capabilities. This role is responsible for designing building and productizing reusable infrastructure solutions that enable engineering teams to provision manage and operate infrastructure through code. The ideal candidate may have successfully launched large-scale IaC initiatives and can translate strategic objectives into practical scalable engineering solutions.

As a technical acumen and practitioner the candidate will establish engineering standards build reusable modules and automation frameworks implement CI/CD pipelines and drive self-service infrastructure capabilities across the organization. Also the candidate will collaborate closely with platform server security networking and application teams to transform infrastructure delivery from manual processes into a resilient automated and software-defined operating model.

Key responsibilities:

• Accountable for the enterprise Infrastructure as Code (IaC) strategy standards governance and adoption roadmap.
• Design develop and maintain scalable infrastructure automation solutions across omni-hosted platforms.
• Build reusable modules templates blueprints and self-service automation capabilities for infrastructure teams.
• Develop automation using Ansible Terraform/OpenTofu Puppet Rundeck Python or related infrastructure automation technologies.
• Apply AI-assisted engineering and Specification-Driven Design practices to improve delivery speed consistency and automation quality.
• Understanding of responsible AI practices security controls governance and risk management within enterprise automation platforms.
• Design and develop APIs and integrations that enable infrastructure orchestration provisioning and platform services.
• Drive CI/CD security compliance testing and deployment automation for infrastructure delivery.
• Partner with platform product teams to accelerate IaC adoption and productize infrastructure capabilities.
• Create documentation reference architectures training materials and enablement programs for IaC tooling CI/CD pipelines and engineering best practices.
• Leverage cross-domain infrastructure knowledge spanning compute networking storage security identity cloud and infra services to deliver curated consumer-facing platform products and improve operational resilience.

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 experience working with Infrastructure as Code principles patterns and engineering practices.
• Experience with continuous collaborative pair programming to solve technical challenges.
• Strong experience building infrastructure automation solutions using tools such as Ansible Terraform/OpenTofu Env0 Puppet or equivalent platforms.
• Demonstrated success in establishing and scaling enterprise infrastructure automation initiatives.
• Experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure deployments.
• Knowledge of Git-based development workflows branching strategies pull requests and code review practices.
• Experience building reusable modules templates and shared automation services.
• Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure networking security identity management and platform services.

Desirable Skills:

• Experience integrating LLMs MCPs AI agents Copilot technologies or workflow automation platforms into infrastructure engineering solutions.
• Experience building AI-native infrastructure platforms that incorporate intelligent code generation automated testing policy validation self-healing workflows and predictive operational insights.
• Experience enabling self-service capabilities through platform engineering or developer platforms.

Job Posting End date: 3rd September 2026

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Skills

Application Infrastructure IT Infrastrcuture Project Management Solution Analysis Solution Engineering Solutioning Solutions Management Strategic Collaborations Technical Knowledge Web Infrastructure

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.