Lead Cloud Security Engineering

Jobtailor; Belfast City District; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Allstate is seeking an experienced engineering leader to drive cloud security controls as software products. You will guide the design, implementation, deployment, and production support while mentoring engineers and shaping the technical direction.

The role requires hands-on leadership in architecture reviews, code reviews, and strategic decisions to improve reliability, performance, and security outcomes across multi-cloud environments.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 4 years of professional software, cloud, platform, or security engineering experience.
• Experience owning production systems delivering measurable reliability, performance, or security outcomes.
• Minimum of 2 years of experience leading and developing engineers through people leadership and hands-on technical guidance.
• Deep experience securing cloud environments across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Strong proficiency with Python, Bash, Terraform and cloud-native automation tools.
• Ability to translate security requirements and risks into scalable engineering solutions, reusable patterns, and automated controls.
• Ability to lead complex engineering initiatives, manage cross-team dependencies, and deliver measurable outcomes.
• Experience designing or operating security controls embedded into CI/CD pipelines, developer workflows, or shared cloud platform services.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and Docker and their security considerations.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop an engineering team delivering cloud security controls as software products.
• Hire, onboard, coach, manage performance, and support career development.
• Set technical direction across design, implementation, deployment, and production support of cloud security capabilities.
• Provide hands-on leadership through architecture and design reviews, technical decisions, code reviews, and critical implementation work.
• Own product reliability, performance, effectiveness, and continuous improvement in production.
• Partner with Digital Product Managers, platform teams, engineering stakeholders, and security stakeholders.
• Align roadmaps, priorities, dependencies, and delivery plans.
• Build an engineering culture centered on test-driven development, pair programming, fast feedback, technical excellence, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Translate complex cloud security needs into scalable solutions, reusable patterns, and automated capabilities.
• Lead agile execution focused on delivery outcomes.
• Develop and operate preventative, detective, and responsive cloud security controls integrated with platforms and developer workflows.

Skills

Cloud Security Engineering

Team Leadership

AWS/Azure/GCP

Python

Bash

Terraform

CI/CD Security

Kubernetes

Docker

Test-Driven Development

Agile Execution

Performance Measurement

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Allstate is seeking an experienced engineering leader to drive cloud security controls as software products. You will guide the design, implementation, deployment, and production support while mentoring engineers and shaping the technical direction.

The role requires hands-on leadership in architecture reviews, code reviews, and strategic decisions to improve reliability, performance, and security outcomes across multi-cloud environments.