Lead Engineer, Authentication Engineering

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🌽 Illinois – Remote

🌽 Illinois – Remote

💵 $151.7k - $221.7k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Allstate

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1931

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

🛡️ Insurance

💰 Post-IPO Equity on 2014-01

Consulting • Logistics • Insurance

Allstate is an industry leader in providing insurance solutions, focusing on home, auto, device, and identity protection. With a commitment to customer well-being, Allstate aims to instill peace of mind and financial security for its customers. The company also emphasizes community impact and sustainability through various initiatives, showcasing their dedication to social responsibility and positive change.

📋 Description

• Lead the design, implementation, and advancement of enterprise authentication platforms • Provide technical leadership for directory infrastructure, MFA, PKI, privileged access management, vaulting solutions, and password/MFA management applications • Partner with the Authentication Lead Product Manager on strategy, roadmaps, prioritization, and solution implementation • Lead authentication strategy, architecture, and engineering to meet business needs and provide a secure, seamless user experience • Design, implement, and modernize MFA, PKI, SSO, privileged access management, vaulting, and cloud-native authentication platforms • Enable Zero Trust capabilities including passwordless, phishing-resistant authentication, JIT, and JEA access • Drive automation, Infrastructure as Code, and test-driven development practices for validation and control testing • Lead large-scale authentication migrations and technology transformations • Partner with security, infrastructure, cloud, application, and AI teams to deliver scalable and resilient authentication services • Support security integration into application automation, AI workflows, and agentic AI capabilities • Coach Managing Engineers and provide technical leadership and people development • Lead technical product design reviews and guide engineering best practices • Influence clients and partners to prioritize enterprise benefit and risk reduction • Drive adoption of technology solutions using existing patterns, practices, and reference architectures • Implement and enhance security controls addressing audit, assessment, red-team, penetration-testing, vulnerability-scanning, and threat-modeling findings • Own reliability, resiliency, and operational excellence of authentication services • Define and achieve SLOs, improve availability and performance, enhance observability, and lead incident response to reduce MTTR • Evaluate emerging technologies and industry trends and establish engineering standards and best practices • Provide technical leadership across authentication domains • Supervise and manage multiple Managing Engineers

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of Information Technology or Engineering experience with authentication, identity or security engineering accountabilities • Experience leading enterprise large-scale projects • Strong expertise with Active Directory and Entra ID • Experience with PKI solutions such as Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS), Hashicorp, Entrust, Sectigo, or DigiCert • Experience with multifactor solutions such as Microsoft Authenticator or Duo • Experience implementing on-premises and cloud authentication solutions using AWS, Azure, and/or GCP • Experience automating authentication solutions and processes • Experience deploying configurations through CI/CD pipelines using GitHub, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Terraform, Ansible, or similar technologies • Understanding of authentication attack techniques, threat actors, exploitation methods, and mitigating controls • Understanding of security standards and compliance requirements including NIST, ISO, PCI, HIPAA, and SOX • Understanding of Full Stack Java development • Background investigation required • Must have reliable internet with minimum speeds of 50 MB download and 5 MB upload • Must have a dedicated, private home workspace free from distractions, with appropriate desk and seating • Allstate generally does not sponsor individuals for employment-based visas for this position

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive technology setup, including a laptop, monitors, headset, keyboard, and mouse • Monthly connectivity reimbursement to help offset internet costs • Remote work arrangement • Opportunity for professional development and career growth • Meaningful work supporting customers, clients, and communities