Lead Threat & Infrastructure Exposure Engineer

Allstate Foundation; Illinois; Remote; USD 100,000 - 171,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Laptop and monitors provided

Connectivity reimbursement

Comprehensive technology setup

Job summary

Allstate Insurance is seeking a Lead Consultant- Threat & Incident Response in Illinois to join the Exposure Management function. You will translate security findings into exposure intelligence and work with platform engineers to reduce risk across servers, virtualization, containers, Kubernetes, and OS hardening.

You bring 3+ years in security engineering or related cyber operations, hands-on server/OS hardening, and the ability to translate telemetry into actionable risk decisions.

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 (vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, control gaps) 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.
• Own SME coverage for servers (Windows/Linux), hypervisors, containers, and Kubernetes platforms.
• Identify systemic risks: insecure baselines, patching gaps, insecure container images, cluster misconfigurations, weak segmentation at the host layer, privilege pathways.
• Partner with platform teams to validate remediation effectiveness and ensure durable hardening outcomes.

Skills

Vulnerability management

Security engineering

Infrastructure protection

Threat assessment

Server & OS hardening

Cloud & container security

Kubernetes security

Network security

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

PowerShell

Python

KQL

SQL

Job description

Allstate Insurance is seeking a Lead Consultant- Threat & Incident Response in Illinois to join the Exposure Management function. You will translate security findings into exposure intelligence and work with platform engineers to reduce risk across servers, virtualization, containers, Kubernetes, and OS hardening.

You bring 3+ years in security engineering or related cyber operations, hands-on server/OS hardening, and the ability to translate telemetry into actionable risk decisions.