Lead Consultant - Network Security

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 DescriptionPosition OverviewWe are seeking a Vended Application Lead Consultant Engineer to join our Network Security engineering team. This role will provide technical leadership for the engineering, automation, deployment, and lifecycle management of enterprise network security platforms.The ideal candidate will bring a strong foundation in networking and network security, combined with experience applying modern software engineering and infrastructure automation practices to infrastructure platforms. This individual should be comfortable working with technologies such as Palo Alto Networks or comparable enterprise firewall platforms, while also having hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, Ansible, APIs, and automation frameworks.This is a hands-on technical leadership role for someone who can bridge traditional infrastructure engineering with a modern, automated approach to managing network security services.Key ResponsibilitiesServe as a lead engineer and technical resource for enterprise network security platforms and vended applications.Engineer, maintain, and improve firewall and network security infrastructure across enterprise environments.Develop and promote an Infrastructure as Code approach for provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle management.Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate infrastructure configuration, validation, testing, and deployment.Develop automation using Ansible, APIs, scripting, and related automation technologies.Design solutions that reduce manual operational activities and