Senior Data Protection Engineer — Hybrid/DevSecOps

Allstate Insurance Company; Belfast City District; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Corporate bonus scheme

Pension scheme

Annual performance reviews

Life assurance

Private medical and dental insurance

Hybrid working

Job summary

Allstate NI is seeking a Senior Data Protection Security Engineer to drive data protection from a tool-driven approach to an engineering-led security capability across cloud, SaaS, endpoint, email and collaboration platforms. You will build scalable, automated policy-as-code solutions and CI/CD pipelines for the data protection lifecycle.

As part of Allstate's European Digital Centre of Excellence, you will partner with engineering, cloud, and privacy teams to design practical protections,

Qualifications

• 4+ years delivering enterprise Data Protection, Information Protection, Cloud Security, or Security Engineering capabilities within complex organisations.
• Policy-as-Code, Security-as-Code, and DevSecOps methodologies with automation at enterprise scale.
• Automation, APIs, IaC, and platform engineering practices to replace manual processes.

Responsibilities

• Engineer enterprise DLP controls across endpoint, email, SaaS, cloud storage, collaboration platforms, network, and web channels.
• Modernise DLP policy deployment with policy-as-code workflows.
• Build CI/CD pipelines for data protection policy lifecycle management including validation, testing, deployment and rollback.
• Develop reusable policy templates, detection logic, exception patterns, configuration baselines, and deployment standards across multiple DLP and CASB platforms.

Skills

Data protection

DLP

CASB

Security Engineering

Policy-as-Code

Security-as-Code

DevSecOps

Automation

APIs

Infrastructure-as-Code

PowerShell

Python

Terraform

Bicep

YAML

JSON

Microsoft Purview

Education

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

Tools

PowerShell

Python

REST APIs

Terraform

Bicep

YAML

JSON

Job description

Allstate NI is seeking a Senior Data Protection Security Engineer to drive data protection from a tool-driven approach to an engineering-led security capability across cloud, SaaS, endpoint, email and collaboration platforms. You will build scalable, automated policy-as-code solutions and CI/CD pipelines for the data protection lifecycle.

As part of Allstate's European Digital Centre of Excellence, you will partner with engineering, cloud, and privacy teams to design practical protections,