Senior Data Protection Engineer - DevSecOps & DLP

Allstate Northern Ireland Limited; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 91,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Laptop provided

Monitors

Headset, keyboard & mouse

Connectivity reimbursement

Home workspace support

Job summary

Allstate Northern Ireland Limited is seeking a Senior Data Protection Security Engineer to lead the evolution of data protection across cloud, SaaS, endpoint, email, and collaboration environments. The role emphasizes automation, governance, and measurable security outcomes, with a focus on modernizing DLP, CASB, and information protection programs.

The successful candidate will design scalable data protection solutions, build policy-as-code workflows, and partner with cross-functional teams to

Qualifications

• 4+ years delivering enterprise Data Protection, Information Protection, Cloud Security, or Security Engineering capabilities.
• Proven experience in Policy-as-Code, Security-as-Code, and DevSecOps methodologies, with automation at scale.
• Track record replacing manual processes with engineering-driven automation (APIs, IaC, platform engineering).
• Advanced knowledge of Data Loss Prevention (DLP), data classification, information protection, and data governance principles.
• Hands-on with Microsoft Purview, Microsoft Information Protection, Defender for Cloud Apps, and Microsoft 365 security ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• Engineer enterprise DLP controls across endpoint, email, SaaS, cloud storage, collaboration platforms, network, and web channels.
• Modernize DLP policy deployment with policy-as-code workflows.
• Build CI/CD pipelines for data protection policy lifecycles including review, testing, deployment, and rollback.
• Develop reusable policy templates, detection logic, and deployment standards across DLP/CASB platforms.
• Automate tasks such as policy promotion, drift detection, control validation, and health checks.
• Integrate DLP, CASB, data classification, cloud security, identity, SIEM, SOAR, and workflow platforms for visibility and enforcement.
• Tune detection logic to reduce false positives and improve policy enforcement.

Skills

API

Cloud Security

Cybersecurity Strategies

Data Governance

Data Loss Prevention (DLP)

Data Protection

Data Security

DevSecOps

Information Security Engineering

Microsoft 365 Security & Compliance

Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Scripting

Infrastructure As Code (IaC)

IT Automation

IT Security Architecture

IT Security Operations

SaaS

Job description

Allstate Northern Ireland Limited is seeking a Senior Data Protection Security Engineer to lead the evolution of data protection across cloud, SaaS, endpoint, email, and collaboration environments. The role emphasizes automation, governance, and measurable security outcomes, with a focus on modernizing DLP, CASB, and information protection programs.

The successful candidate will design scalable data protection solutions, build policy-as-code workflows, and partner with cross-functional teams to