Lead Consultant – Infrastructure Security & Exposure

Allstate Insurance Company; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 171,000; Full time

Job summary

Allstate Insurance Company is seeking a Lead Consultant- Threat & Incident Response to join the Exposure Management function, focusing on reducing exploitable infrastructure exposures across servers, virtualization, containers, Kubernetes, and OS hardening.

You will translate telemetry into actionable risk decisions, partner with platform teams to ensure durable hardening, and drive SME-to-SME collaboration to accelerate risk reduction across core compute platforms.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in security engineering, infrastructure engineering, vulnerability/exposure management, or related cyber operations.
• Hands‑on knowledge of server/OS hardening, virtualization concepts, and container/Kubernetes fundamentals.
• Ability to interpret technical telemetry and translate into actionable risk decisions.

Responsibilities

• Analyze exposure signals and translate them into exploitable exposure hypotheses.
• Correlate findings across sources to identify attack paths and high‑impact exposure conditions.
• Prioritize work based on exploitability, blast radius, and business impact; produce clear remediation guidance.

Skills

Cyber Incident Response

Docker

Incident Response

Infrastructure Protection

IT Security Operations

Kubernetes

Linux

Operating Systems

Remediation

Root Cause Analysis

Security Controls

Security Engineering

Server Infrastructure

Systems Hardening

Threat Assessment

Virtualization

Job description

Allstate Insurance Company is seeking a Lead Consultant- Threat & Incident Response to join the Exposure Management function, focusing on reducing exploitable infrastructure exposures across servers, virtualization, containers, Kubernetes, and OS hardening.

You will translate telemetry into actionable risk decisions, partner with platform teams to ensure durable hardening, and drive SME-to-SME collaboration to accelerate risk reduction across core compute platforms.