Remote Cloud Security Engineering Manager

Allstate Insurance Company; Belfast City District; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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

Employee assistance programme

Discounted gym membership

Two paid volunteering days each year

Cycle to work scheme

Job summary

Allstate NI in Belfast seeks a Managing Engineer, Cloud Security Engineering to lead and grow a team delivering cloud security controls as software products. You will guide architecture decisions, ensure reliability and security, and collaborate with product and platform teams.

The role blends leadership with hands-on engineering across AWS, Azure, and GCP, with a strong focus on scalable, secure cloud solutions and modern delivery practices. Hybrid/remote options available.

Qualifications

• All applicants must demonstrate they have a legal right to work in the UK for employment at Allstate.
• 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.

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.

Skills

Cloud Platform

Cloud Security

Code Reviews

Mentorship

Product Security

Security Controls

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Technical Direction

Technical Leadership

Tools

Python

Bash

Terraform

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

Allstate NI in Belfast seeks a Managing Engineer, Cloud Security Engineering to lead and grow a team delivering cloud security controls as software products. You will guide architecture decisions, ensure reliability and security, and collaborate with product and platform teams.

The role blends leadership with hands-on engineering across AWS, Azure, and GCP, with a strong focus on scalable, secure cloud solutions and modern delivery practices. Hybrid/remote options available.