Exposure Intelligence Analyst - Databases & Data Stores (RDBMS / NoSQL / Object Storage / Permi[...]

Allstate Insurance; Illinois; On-site; USD 100,000 - 171,000; Full time

Job summary

Allstate Insurance seeks an Exposure Intelligence Analyst for Databases & Data Stores to help identify and mitigate data exposure risks across RDBMS, NoSQL, data warehouses, and object storage. You will apply exposure management principles to prioritize remediation and reduce unauthorized data access.

You will partner with data owners and engineering teams to strengthen permissions, encryption, and audit practices, contributing to a stronger enterprise security posture.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in data platform security, cloud security, security engineering, or exposure management.
• Understanding of data access models, permissioning, and common misconfiguration patterns.
• Ability to translate data risk into business impact and remediation priorities.

Responsibilities

• Correlate security signals into exposure narratives focused on exploitability and impact.
• Identify attack paths that lead to data access, privilege expansion, and sensitive data exposure.
• Provide clear prioritization and remediation guidance; track closure outcomes.
• Own SME coverage for data-layer exposure: insecure permissions, exposed storage, misconfigured access policies.
• Partner with data owners/platform teams to reduce exposure creation and improve prevention guardrails.

Skills

Data Platform Security

Cloud Security

Security Engineering

Exposure Management

Job description

At 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.

Job Description

Exposure Intelligence Analyst - Databases & Data Stores (RDBMS / NoSQL / Object Storage / Permissions)

Role: Exposure Intelligence Analyst - Databases & Data Stores

Job Profile & Family: Lead Consultant- Threat & Incident Response

Team and overall work scope

• The team operates within a newly established Exposure Management function in the broader cybersecurity organization, focused on modernizing how the enterprise identifies, prioritizes, and mitigates security vulnerabilities shifting from traditional patch approaches to a more strategic focus on true business risk and exploitability

• Individual Contributor/ Lead Consultant roles are designed to bring in deep respective domain expertise (network, endpoint, cloud, identity, infrastructure, Databases & Data Stores, etc.) to bridge the gap between security insights and practical remediation strategies

• The Exposure Intelligence Analyst - Databases & Data Stores is the SME responsible for identifying and prioritizing exposure risk across data platforms, including RDBMS, NoSQL systems, data warehouses, object storage, and data permissions models. This role applies CTEM principles to identify exploitable exposure conditions that lead to unauthorized access, data exfiltration, or privilege misuse, partnering with data platform and engineering teams to reduce real enterprise exposure.

Success Measures

• Reduction in high-impact data exposure conditions (permissions and access pathways).

• Improved visibility and prioritization of data-access-related attack paths.

• Stronger partnership with data platform teams and fewer recurring access control failures.

Key Responsibilities (Core + Domain)

Exposure Intelligence (Core)

• Correlate security signals into exposure narratives focused on exploitability and impact.

• Identify attack paths that lead to data access, privilege expansion, and sensitive data exposure.

• Provide clear prioritization and remediation guidance; track closure outcomes.

Databases & Data Stores (Domain)

• Own SME coverage for data-layer exposure: insecure permissions, exposed storage, weak encryption posture, misconfigured access policies, risky service-to-service access.

• Identify systemic patterns: over-broad access, stale entitlements, misconfigured storage endpoints, weak auditability.

• Partner with data owners/platform teams to reduce exposure creation and improve prevention guardrails.

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years in data platform security, cloud security, security engineering, or exposure management.

• Understanding of data access models, permissioning, and common misconfiguration patterns.

• Ability to translate data risk into business impact and remediation priorities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with object storage security, database hardening concepts, and data access governance.

• Familiarity with cloud data services and their permission models.

• Strong analytical skills; ability to validate exposure hypotheses with queries/logs.

Skills

Cloud Data Storage, Data Applications, Data Management Platforms, Data Storage Platforms, Exposure Management, Object Storage, Threat Monitoring

Compensation

Compensation offered for this role is 100,000.00 - 170,500.00 annually and is based on experience and qualifications.

The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation.

Joining our team isn't just a job - it's an opportunity. One that takes your skills and pushes them to the next level. One that encourages you to challenge the status quo. One where you can shape the future of protection while supporting causes that mean the most to you. Joining our team means being part of something bigger - a winning team making a meaningful impact.

Allstate generally does not sponsor individuals for employment-based visas for this position.

Effective July 1, 2014, under Indiana House Enrolled Act (HEA) 1242, it is against public policy of the State of Indiana and a discriminatory practice for an employer to discriminate against a prospective employee on the basis of status as a veteran by refusing to employ an applicant on the basis that they are a veteran of the armed forces of the United States, a member of the Indiana National Guard or a member of a reserve component.

It is the Company's policy to employ the best qualified individuals available for all jobs. Therefore, any discriminatory action taken on account of an employee's ancestry, age, color, disability, genetic information, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual and reproductive health decision, marital status, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, race (include traits historically associated with race, including, but not limited to, hair texture and protective hairstyles), religion (including religious dress), sex, or sexual orientation that adversely affects an employee's terms or conditions of employment is prohibited. This policy applies to all aspects of the employment relationship, including, but not limited to, hiring, training, salary administration, promotion, job assignment, benefits, discipline, and separation of employment.

Allstate provides a comprehensive technology setup, including a laptop, monitors, headset, keyboard, and mouse. Employees eligible to work from home also receive a monthly connectivity reimbursement to help offset internet costs.

When working from home, you must have a dedicated, private workspace free from distractions, along with appropriate desk and seating. Reliable internet is required, with minimum speeds of 50 MB download and 5 MB upload.