Senior Data Protection Engineer - Remote & Automation Focus

Allstate NI; Belfast City District; Híbrido; GBP 90.000 - 125.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

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

Cycle to work scheme

Descripción de la vacante

Allstate NI is seeking a Senior Data Protection Security Engineer to lead the evolution of enterprise data protection, building scalable, automated controls across cloud, SaaS, endpoints, email, and collaboration environments. You’ll drive governance, deployment models, and measurable risk reduction while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

The role offers hybrid/remote options and an opportunity to advance data protection strategy with automation-first engineering.

Formación

• Minimum 4 years delivering enterprise Data Protection or Security Engineering capabilities.
• Experience with Policy-as-Code, Security-as-Code, and DevSecOps at scale.
• Track record of automating security control deployment and governance.
• Experience replacing manual processes with engineering-driven solutions.

Responsabilidades

• Engineer enterprise DLP controls across endpoints, email, SaaS, cloud storage and collaboration.
• Modernise DLP policy deployment with version-controlled, automated workflows.
• Build CI/CD pipelines for data protection policy lifecycle management.
• Develop reusable policy templates, detection logic, and deployment standards.
• Automate operational tasks: policy promotion, drift detection, validation, and reporting.
• Integrate DLP, CASB, data classification, cloud security, identity, SIEM, and SOAR platforms.
• Tune detection logic to reduce false positives and improve policy enforcement.
• Design guardrails for sensitive data across Microsoft 365 and cloud environments.
• Collaborate with engineering, cloud, compliance, privacy, legal and business teams.
• Investigate data protection events and convert learnings into automated patterns.
• Define metrics, KPIs, dashboards and control evidence for risk reduction.

Conocimientos

Policy-as-Code

Security-as-Code

DevSecOps

Automation

PowerShell

Python

Terraform

YAML

REST APIs

Educación

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering

Herramientas

Microsoft Purview

Microsoft Information Protection

Defender for Cloud Apps

Microsoft 365 security

IAM/SSO tooling

Descripción del empleo

Allstate NI is seeking a Senior Data Protection Security Engineer to lead the evolution of enterprise data protection, building scalable, automated controls across cloud, SaaS, endpoints, email, and collaboration environments. You’ll drive governance, deployment models, and measurable risk reduction while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

The role offers hybrid/remote options and an opportunity to advance data protection strategy with automation-first engineering.