Senior Data Protection Engineer - Remote

Allstate Private Limited; United States; Hybrid; USD 91,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Allstate is seeking a Senior Data Protection Security Engineer to lead modern data protection initiatives across cloud, SaaS, endpoint, email, and collaboration environments. You will drive automated, policy-as-code driven DLP and governance programs, advancing the organization’s data protection strategy while delivering measurable security improvements.

The role emphasizes engineering-driven security, automation, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to reduce risk and enable business

Qualifications

• 4+ years delivering enterprise Data Protection, Information Protection, Cloud Security, or Security Engineering capabilities within complex organizations.
• Policy-as-Code, Security-as-Code, and DevSecOps methodologies, automating security at scale.
• Automation, APIs, IaC, platform engineering to modernize data protection.

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 lifecycle management.
• Develop reusable policy templates, detection logic, and deployment standards across DLP/CASB platforms.
• Automate operational tasks like policy promotion, drift detection, and health checks.
• Integrate DLP, CASB, data classification, cloud security, identity, SIEM, SOAR, and workflow platforms.
• Tune detection logic to reduce false positives and improve policy enforcement.
• Design guardrails for sensitive data usage across Microsoft 365 and cloud environments.
• Partner with engineering, cloud, compliance, and privacy teams to design practical data protection solutions.

Skills

API

Cloud Security

Cybersecurity

Data Governance

Data Loss Prevention

Data Protection

Data Security

DevSecOps

Information Security Engineering

Microsoft 365 Security

Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Scripting

Infrastructure as Code

IT Automation

IT Security Architecture

IT Security Operations

SaaS

Job description

Allstate is seeking a Senior Data Protection Security Engineer to lead modern data protection initiatives across cloud, SaaS, endpoint, email, and collaboration environments. You will drive automated, policy-as-code driven DLP and governance programs, advancing the organization’s data protection strategy while delivering measurable security improvements.

The role emphasizes engineering-driven security, automation, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to reduce risk and enable business