Systems Engineer, Lead Consultant (Identity & Authentication) (Hybrid OR Remote)

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

The Systems Engineer Lead Consultant Systems Engineer Identity & Authentication leads and initiates efforts to research design plan and maintain new or existing network hardware and software technology components. The consultant utilizes systems scripting and developer skills to execute tasks related to analysis integration and moderately to highly complex incidents and problems affecting production systems and multiple applications. This role also helps define and update items in the configuration management plan.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead identifying and recommending major and significant changes for moderately complex network hardware and software technology components for purposes of incident avoidance.
• Resolve incidents and perform root cause analysis escalating high complexity incidents and problems to provide future application hardware and/or software resiliency.
• Lead efforts to ensure plans integrate effectively with other aspects of the technical hardware and software components.
• Lead the support for production service requests performing routine administration and supporting moderately complex network hardware and software infrastructure (i.e. Request Center Change Order execution).
• Lead the effort to develop and maintain tools for the use of maintaining modifying and monitoring hardware and software technology components.
• Lead implementation of moderately complex network hardware and software technology components by analyzing the current system environment and infrastructure using technical tools and utilities and performing complex product customizations.
• Lead execution of testing debugging performance analysis and documenting moderately complex hardware and software technology components.
• Collaborate to build consensus with other Engineers to ensure that the modified hardware and software infrastructure interacts appropriately data conversion impacts are considered and other areas of impact are addressed and meet business function and performance requirements.
• Lead and initiate the completion of the following activities (concerning moderately complex new network hardware and software technology components or enhancements to existing components): research analysis design selection planning and engineering.

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 designing implementing and supporting enterprise Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions in complex hybrid environments.
• A minimum of 1 year of experience leading and mentoring a team within the field of Identity and Authentication.
• Advanced experience with Active Directory Domain Services (ADDS) Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) Microsoft Entra ID Active Directory Certificate Services (ADCS) and Hybrid Identity.
• Strong proficiency in PowerShell scripting automation APIs Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and modern engineering practices.
• Experience with authentication and federation technologies including LDAP Kerberos SAML OAuth OpenID Connect (OIDC) WS-Federation and certificate-based authentication.
• Experience administering and supporting Group Policy (GPO) Domain Name System (DNS) Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) and System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) in enterprise environments.

Desirable Skills/Certifications:

• Experience with privileged access management certificate lifecycle management or cloud identity platforms.
• Experience with GitHub CI/CD pipelines Infrastructure as Code and automation frameworks.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development intelligent automation operational analytics or emerging AI technologies.

• Microsoft Certified: Identity and Access Administrator Associate (SC-300)
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104)
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate (AZ-500)
• Microsoft Certified: Cybersecurity Architect Expert (SC-100)

Supervisory Responsibilities:

This job does not have supervisory responsibilities.

Job Posting End Date: Monday 19th October 2026

Skills

Access Management Access Management Active Directory (AD) Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) Analytical Thinking Authentication Automation Automation Frameworks Certificate Services Cloud Identity Collaboration Complex Network Debugging Design Disaster Recovery (DR) Domain Name System (DNS) Domain Services Identity Access Management (IAM) Identity Governance Infrastructure As Code (IaC) Intelligent Automation (IA) Microsoft Hyper-V Server Microsoft Server Administration Microsoft System Center Suite 13 more

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.