Senior Consultant I - Network Security Engineering

At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life’s uncertainties. And for more than 90 years, our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers’ evolving needs. From advocating for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws, to being an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, and, more recently, device and identity protection.  Job Description Senior Consultant I - Network Security Engineering Join our Network Security Engineering team and help secure and modernize critical enterprise infrastructure. As a Senior Consultant I, you will engineer, support, automate, and maintain network security platforms that protect the organization while improving reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency. We're looking for an experienced engineer with a strong foundation in networking and network security who enjoys solving complex technical challenges and leveraging automation to drive better outcomes. You'll work with technologies such as enterprise firewall platforms, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, APIs, scripting, and automation frameworks to streamline operations and enhance platform performance. This is a hands-on role for someone who takes ownership, works independently, and delivers high-quality engineering solutions with limited oversight. You'll troubleshoot complex network and security issues, implement infrastructure improvements, support automation initiatives, and contribute ideas that help advance the team's engineering practices. Key Responsibilities • Engineer, support, and maintain enterprise network security platforms, including Palo Alto Networks and related security technologies. • Design, implement, test, and validate network security solutions across enterprise and cloud environments. • Troubleshoot complex network, firewall, routing, connectivity, and application communication issues. • Develop and maintain automation using scripting, APIs, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and configuration management tools. • Build and support CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure deployment, testing, validation, and configuration management. • Create automated pre- and post-change validation processes to improve reliability, consistency, and operational efficiency. • Integrate security platforms with monitoring, deployment, and operational tooling to enhance visibility and automation. • Identify and automate repetitive operational tasks to reduce manual effort and improve platform scalability. • Support platform lifecycle initiatives, including upgrades, vulnerability remediation, technology refreshes, and modernization efforts. • Partner with network, cloud, security, and application teams to deliver secure, resilient, and scalable solutions. • Contribute to technical reviews, process improvements, and engineering best practices while operating within established architecture and security standards. • Develop and maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, scripts, and automation. • Provide technical assistance and knowledge sharing to other members of the team.   Required Qualifications • Strong background in network engineering and network security. • Strong understanding of core networking technologies and concepts, including: TCP/IP, Routing, Subnetting, NAT, DNS, and application connectivity • Experience engineering, implementing, or supporting enterprise firewall and network security platforms. • Experience with Infrastructure as Code concepts, practices, and version-controlled infrastructure. • Hands-on experience developing scripts and automation for infrastructure engineering and operational use cases, including areas such as: Infrastructure change implementation, Configuration mana