Product Engineer- Endpoint Security-; Hybrid

Position: Product Engineer- Endpoint Security- (Hybrid)
Location: Belfast City District

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.

Your role in the team

We are seeking an Endpoint Security Engineer to join our team to help secure and manage enterprise endpoint protection technologies across a global environment. This role will serve as a key technical resource responsible for administering and enhancing endpoint security platforms including Crowd Strike Falcon, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, and Beyondtrust Privileged Access Management (PAM).The Endpoint Security Engineer is responsible for the design, administration, optimization, and support of enterprise endpoint security platforms.

This role partners closely with Cyber Operations, Infrastructure, Desktop Engineering, and Identity teams to protect endpoints, improve detection capabilities, automate security processes, and strengthen the organization's overall security posture. The ideal candidate combines strong operational security experience with modern engineering and automation skills. They have hands-on experience with EDR, firewall management, device control, API management, and endpoint security operations, along with a solid understanding of incident response and threat detection.

Comfortable administering Crowd Strike and Microsoft security platforms, they leverage scripting, API integrations, Git Hub-based workflows, and emerging AI-driven security technologies to automate processes, improve operational efficiency, and strengthen security outcomes. Curious, proactive, and innovative, they continuously seek opportunities to enhance the organisation's cyber security capabilities through automation and continuous improvement.

Key responsibilities:

Design, implement, and optimize endpoint security controls.

Evaluate new endpoint security technologies.

Develop security baselines and endpoint hardening standards.

Provide technical guidance for endpoint-related security projects.

Understand system security vulnerabilities and associated threats, and assess the overall security risks to the system

Provide assistance to engineers to implement new security tools to feed our Dev Ops/Sec Ops processes, ensuring the solvency of computing resources

Participate as an active member of Design & Build IT projects, steering configurations and services towards industry-leading security practices within domain expertise

Work alongside Senior Security Engineers/Architects, and assist in Proof of Concepts and implementation of the security solution Assist with security and compliance-based projects involving cloud, operating systems, applications, and database and security issues and requirements

Understand Dev Ops ideologies with the ability to drive and communicate change supporting Dev Ops/Sec Ops methodology within the organization

Understand software installations, systems monitoring and troubleshooting, account management, and overall efforts to minimize system

Essential

Skills:

A minimum of 3 years of hands on professional experience in cybersecurity, endpoint security, or security engineering.

Hands-on experience administering Anti Virus/Endpoint Detection Response solutions.

Experience investigating security events and supporting incident response activitiesA minimum of 1 years’ experience with Power Shell, Python, or similar scripting languages.

Experience working with APIs and automation workflows.

Desirable

Skills:

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity,…