Lead Network Security Automation Engineer

Allstate Insurance Co.; Illinois; Hybrid; USD 98,000 - 168,000; Full time

Job summary

Allstate Insurance Co. is seeking a Vended Application Lead Consultant Engineer to join its Network Security engineering team.

The role combines hands-on engineering with technical leadership to automate infrastructure and security platforms across enterprise environments. You will bridge traditional infrastructure with modern automation, apply Ansible and CI/CD to firewall and network services, and collaborate across security, cloud, and application teams to deliver secure connectivity and

Qualifications

• Strong background in network engineering and network security.
• Strong understanding of core networking concepts including: TCP/IP, Routing, Subnetting, NAT, DNS, VPN technologies, Network segmentation, Load balancing and application connectivity.
• Experience engineering or supporting enterprise firewall platforms, preferably Palo Alto Networks or equivalent technologies.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code concepts, practices, and tooling.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a lead engineer and technical resource for enterprise network security platforms and vended applications.
• Engineer, maintain, and improve firewall and network security infrastructure across enterprise environments.
• Develop and promote an Infrastructure as Code approach for provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle management.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate infrastructure configuration, validation, testing, and deployment.
• Develop automation using Ansible, APIs, scripting, and related automation technologies.
• Design solutions that reduce manual operational activities and improve the consistency and repeatability of infrastructure changes.
• Provide technical leadership for Palo Alto Networks firewall technologies or comparable enterprise firewall/security platforms.
• Partner with networking, cloud, application, security, and infrastructure teams to design and implement secure connectivity solutions.
• Troubleshoot complex network and security issues across application, network, firewall, and cloud environments.

Skills

Networking

Network security

Palo Alto

Ansible

CI/CD

REST APIs

Python

PowerShell

Tools

Git

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Job description

Allstate Insurance Co. is seeking a Vended Application Lead Consultant Engineer to join its Network Security engineering team.

The role combines hands-on engineering with technical leadership to automate infrastructure and security platforms across enterprise environments. You will bridge traditional infrastructure with modern automation, apply Ansible and CI/CD to firewall and network services, and collaborate across security, cloud, and application teams to deliver secure connectivity and