Security Engineering Senior Manager

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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 Allstate Cybersecurity & Controls (ACC) is advancing its embedded security product strategy by launching three new engineering teams dedicated to building security controls seamlessly integrated into Allstate’s technology ecosystem. The Security Engineering Senior Manager will be the direct leader responsible for the day-to-day development, implementation, and support of security controls across multiple product security engineering teams, working with global stakeholders. This position requires a strong, well-rounded technical leader who can quickly learn the overall business and technology processes supported by the teams, and who is eager to grow skills within the security engineering landscape, including secure software development, cloud security, application security, and modern DevSecOps practices. The role demands hands-on expertise in security engineering, along with solid integration and compliance knowledge. This senior leader will be expected to build relationships throughout the organization to ensure whole-company alignment and support for their goals, and vice-versa. This individual architects and designs secure digital products using modern tools, technologies, frameworks, and systems. This role applies a systematic application of scientific and technological knowledge, methods, and experience to the design, implementation, testing, and documentation of secure software. This leader owns and manages running their applications in production and is accountable for the success of their digital products through achieving KPIs, including security metrics. Key Responsibilities • Frequently   advise   others on complex security engineering matters. • Build   foundation   to translate security strategy into challenging and meaningful goals.   • Manage teams responsible for strategic and critical security architecture or provide functions that are of key strategic value to the business.   • Act as an authority in secure software best practices and propagate these throughout the broader organization, beyond their individual team.   • Display expertise in viewing the   organization as a whole, especially   in terms of risk and security posture.   • Leverage and influence key stakeholders to drive adoption of security controls and practices.   Specific to Security Engineering Responsibilities: • Designing, implementing, and productizing security controls to address complex business and technology challenges.   • Working directly with business and technical teams to assess and provide security technology support.   • Understanding multiple end-to-end business and technology processes, with a focus on security risks and mitigations.   • Displaying deep knowledge of technical details, integration, and functions of security tools and platforms (e.g., IAM, SIEM, vulnerability management, cloud security).   • Evaluating potential system enhancements and upgrades, influencing the security product roadmap.   • Identifying   and implementing process improvements and product simplification opportunities, especially in security operations.   • Providing technical or functional leadership for team members in security engineering.   • Ensuring industry and technology best practices are followed for secure development and operations.   Job Qualifications • 10+ years of experience prefe

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