Senior Engineer - Enterprise Authentication & Zero Trust

Allstate Insurance Company; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 152,000 - 222,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Home office setup and equipment

Connectivity reimbursement

Job summary

Allstate Insurance Company seeks a highly technical Lead Engineer, Authentication Engineering to lead design and modernization of enterprise authentication platforms. You will spearhead MFA, PKI, SSO, vaulting, and cloud-native auth to enable Zero Trust and passwordless access.

The role emphasizes automation, test-driven development, and large-scale migrations while partnering with Product, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, and AI teams to deliver secure, scalable authentication services.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of Information Technology or Engineering experience with authentication, identity or security engineering accountabilities.
• 3+ years management experience.
• Experience leading enterprise large-scale projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, implementation, and advancement of enterprise authentication platforms.
• Drive automation and Infrastructure as Code to enable Zero Trust and passwordless access.
• Oversee large-scale authentication migrations and technology transformations.
• Partner with security, cloud, and AI teams to deliver scalable authentication services.
• Provide technical leadership and develop engineering talent.
• Influence stakeholders to adopt enterprise-grade authentication patterns.

Skills

Authentication

Identity

Security engineering

Active Directory/Entra ID

PKI

MFA

SSO

Automation

IaC

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

GitHub Actions

GitHub

Jenkins

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Allstate Insurance Company seeks a highly technical Lead Engineer, Authentication Engineering to lead design and modernization of enterprise authentication platforms. You will spearhead MFA, PKI, SSO, vaulting, and cloud-native auth to enable Zero Trust and passwordless access.

The role emphasizes automation, test-driven development, and large-scale migrations while partnering with Product, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, and AI teams to deliver secure, scalable authentication services.