Senior Consultant - 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.

• 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.

• 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 management, Pre‑change and post‑change validation, Infrastructure monitoring and health checks, Data collection and reporting, Operational troubleshooting, API‑driven infrastructure management.
• Working knowledge of scripting or programming languages such as Python, Power Shell, Bash, or similar languages.
• Experience working with REST APIs or other programmatic interfaces to interact with and automate infrastructure platforms.
• Experience developing, maintaining, or working with CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure configuration and deployment.
• Experience using source control and version‑control practices, such as Git‑based development workflows.
• Experience troubleshooting complex infrastructure, network connectivity, and security issues.
• Ability to independently analyze technical requirements and implement solutions within established architecture and engineering standards.
• Ability to take ownership of assigned technical work and drive it through implementation and validation with limited oversight.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work across infrastructure, security, networking, cloud, and application teams.

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