Managing Engineer, Cloud Security Engineering

Allstate Northern Ireland Limited; Belfast City District; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Allstate Northern Ireland Limited is hiring a Managing Engineer, Cloud Security Engineering in a hybrid Belfast setting. You will lead a team delivering cloud security controls, guide architecture decisions, and own production delivery and reliability.

The role requires strategic thinking and hands-on technical leadership across AWS, Azure and GCP environments. You will partner with digital product managers, platform teams, and security stakeholders to implement preventative, detective, and

Qualifications

• Legal right to work in the UK for Allstate
• 4+ years of professional software/cloud/security engineering
• 2+ years of people leadership and mentoring
• Deep experience securing cloud environments across AWS, Azure and GCP
• Proficiency in Python, Bash, Terraform and cloud automation tools
• Ability to translate security requirements into scalable engineering solutions

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop an engineering team delivering cloud security controls as software products
• Set technical direction and drive high-quality execution across design, deployment and production support
• Provide hands-on technical leadership through architecture reviews and code reviews
• Ensure reliability, performance and continuous improvement of products in production
• Collaborate with product managers and platform teams to align roadmaps and priorities
• Foster a modern delivery culture with test-driven development and fast feedback

Skills

Cloud security

Leadership

AWS

Azure

GCP

Python

Bash

Terraform

CI/CD security

Cloud automation

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

## Managing Engineer, Cloud Security EngineeringApply: Hybrid: Belfast 10 Mays Meadow: Der-Derry/Londonderry: Full time: Posted Today: End Date: October 6, 2026 (7 days left to apply): R35061At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life’s 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 team’s 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. **Supervisory Responsibilities*** This job does have supervisory duties. **Job Posting End Date: Monday 5th October 11:59pm**