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

The Security Engineer Consultant II partners in designing and building security solutions that will balance the need for speed and flexibility of the infrastructure and IaaS/PaaS/SaaS applications, with the need to protect Allstate against ongoing and potential security threats. This role needs to have the aptitude to understand new security strategies.

Key Responsibilities

Expectations for a security developer include:

• Actively learn different technologies as needed for delivery of stories
• Adhere to Allstate best practices (for example, pair programming and test-driven development) and hold others accountable for the same
• Establishes continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment pipelines and practices
• Deliver on all phases of development work from initial kick-off, technical setup, application development, and support
• Serve as a leader in all dimensions of the work:  people, process, technology
• Embrace approach of making collaborative, fast, local decisions; then course correct as/if needed (test/learn/iterate)
• Active participation in regular agile meetings (e.g., site standup, product team standup, iteration planning meeting, retrospective, lunch & learns)
• Actively work to transfer knowledge of Allstate development practices and technical skills to other people (including delivery areas) to grow adoption
• Receive constructive criticism and take necessary steps to improve where/when needed
• If there is bench time, leverage it to work on any assigned projects and/or for self-study to advance technical skills
• Developed code should promote principles of 12 factor apps, availability, scalability, maintainability and security

Education

• 4 year Bachelors Degree (Preferred)

Experience

• 2 or more years of experience (Preferred)

Supervisory Responsibilities

• This job does not have supervisory duties.

Education & Experience (in lieu)

• In lieu of the above education requirements, an equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.

Functional Competencies – Proficiency levels

Software Engineering:  3

Dev Sec Ops:  1

Dev Ops:  2

Continuous Integration:  2

Threat Modeling:  1

Security Testing:  1

Scripting:  2

Thriving in Change:  2

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities/Experience

• You are entrepreneurial with a strong technical skill.
• You are passionate about technical topics such as computer languages and frameworks, mobility and Internet of Things.
• You can translate complex user stories into a good technical code and deliver it effectively.

Preferred Qualifications

• 2-3+ years technology development and implementation experience.
• Knowledge of Agile methodologies (especially Agile XP), including paired programming and test driven development.
• Excellent Java and/or JavaScript coding background including familiarity with the following tools:
  • Intellij-IDE
  • Github
  • Spring Framework
  • AngularJS or ReactJS
  • Mircrosoft SQL Server or MongoDB

Familiarity with the following is a plus:

• Threat Modeling
• Security Testing
• Jenkins
• nodeJS
• Undergraduate degree in software engineering or computer science.

Primary Skills

AngularJS, DevOps, GitHub, IT Security Operations, Java Full Stack Development, Jenkins (Software), JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA, Microsoft SQL Server, MongoDB, Node.js, React.js, Scripting, Security Policies, Security Testing, Spring Framework, Threat Modeling, Troubleshooting

Shift Time

Shift B (India)

Recruiter Info

Diksha Prasad

[email protected]

About Allstate

The Allstate Corporation is one of the largest publicly held insurance providers in the United States. Ranked No. 84 in the 2023 Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by total revenue, The Allstate Corporation owns and operates 18 companies in the United States, Canada, Northern Ireland, and India. Allstate India Private Limited, also known as Allstate India, is a subsidiary of The Allstate Corporation. The India talent center was set up in 2012 and operates under the corporation's Good Hands promise. As it innovates operations and technology, Allstate India has evolved beyond its technology functions to be the critical strategic business services arm of the corporation. With offices in Bengaluru and Pune, the company offers expertise to the parent organization’s business areas including technology and innovation, accounting and imaging services, policy administration, transformation solution design and support services, transformation of property liability service design, global operations and integration, and training and transition.

Learn more about Allstate India here.