Senior Incident Handler

Job description

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 We're rebuilding incident response from the ground up—and we want a proven responder to help lead the way. This is a chance to bring your hard-won expertise into a next-generation Security Operations program at Fortune 100 scale, where rapid response, automation, and AI-driven investigation are core to how we operate. As our Senior Incident Handler, you'll be the technical anchor for our most significant security events—driving the response, raising the bar on how we work, and helping mature the team toward a formal, scalable incident command model we're building for the future. If you've handled the incidents that make headlines (or quietly prevented them from becoming headlines), bring the instincts of a seasoned incident commander, and can move seamlessly from the server room to the boardroom, this is where your experience turns into real influence. What You''ll Own Incident Handling & Response Leadership: Serve as the lead responder during critical incidents—owning the full lifecycle from detection through containment, eradication, and recovery. You'll help run the war room, coordinate responders, and make confident calls with incomplete information. Cross-Functional Coordination: Unify analysts, infrastructure, application owners, legal, comms, and third-party partners into a single, fast-moving response. Relentless focus on reducing dwell time and mean-time-to-respond. Executive Communication: Be a trusted voice during high-severity events—translating fast-moving technical realities into clear business impact for stakeholders up to the C-suite. You build calm and confidence when it matters most. Deep Threat Investigation: Lead advanced investigations into malware, identity compromise, ransomware, and targeted attacks. Analyze logs, network , and forensic data to expose attacker tradecraft (lateral movement, persistence, exfiltration) and hunt down what others miss—leveraging EDR/XDR, SIEM, and cloud telemetry. AI & Automation Leadership: Help modernize our SOC by putting cutting-edge automation and AI-assisted tooling to work—accelerating triage and enrichment without sacrificing human judgment. Team Uplevel & Continuous Improvement: Raise the standard of how the team responds—sharpening detections, playbooks, and controls through meaningful after-action reviews, and helping shape the practices that will underpin our future incident command function. What You Bring Battle-tested IR experience: 5+ years in cybersecurity operations or incident response, with a track record of leading complex, enterprise-scale incidents end-to-end. Financial services or insurance experience is a plus—but great responders come from everywhere. Command-level instincts: Demonstrated ability to act as an incident commander or technical lead in high-stakes moments—running major bridge calls and making decisive calls fast. You bring the judgment that helps a team operate like a mature command function. Technical depth: Strong command of network security, EDR/XDR, log and forensic analysis, and threat hunting across on-prem and cloud. Comfortable with SIEM, forensics tooling, and scripting/automation (Python, PowerShell). Communication range: Exceptional written and verbal skills; equally credible with engineers and executives. Automation mindset: Enthusiasm for SOAR, ML-based tooling, and LLMs to elevate response workflows. Credentials: CISSP, GCIA, GCIH, GCFA, OSCP or other certifications preferred . Why This Role You'll join at a pivotal moment—bringing your expertise to a team that's actively maturing, with the opportunity to help shape the incident command function we're building next. This is a role for someone who wants their fingerprints on how a Fortune 100 responds to the threats ahead. If you're ready to lead through crisis, outthink sophisticated adversaries, and elevate a team around you— let's talk. #LI-JJ1 Skills Cross-Functional Collaboration, Cyber Incident Response, Cyber Investigations, Cybersecurity Operations, Cyber Threat Hunting, Decision Making, Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), Executive Communications, Forensic Analysis, Incident Handling, IT Automation, IT Security Architecture, Malware Analysis, Network Security, Penetration Testing, Scripting, Security Incident Response, Technical Leadership, Technical Mentoring, Technology Leadership Compensation Compensation offered for this role is 120,000.00 - 193,725.00 annually and is based on experience and qualifications. The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation. Joining our team isn’t just a job — it’s an opportunity. One that takes your skills and pushes them to the next level. One that encourages you to challenge the status quo. One where you can shape the future of protection while supporting causes that mean the most to you. Joining our team means being part of something bigger – a winning team making a meaningful impact. Allstate generally does not sponsor individuals for employment-based visas for this position. Effective July 1, 2014, under Indiana House Enrolled Act (HEA) 1242, it is against public policy of the State of Indiana and a discriminatory practice for an employer to discriminate against a prospective employee on the basis of status as a veteran by refusing to employ an applicant on the basis that they are a veteran of the armed forces of the United States, a member of the Indiana National Guard or a member of a reserve component. For jobs in San Francisco, please click “ here ” for information regarding the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. For jobs in Los Angeles, please click “ here ” for information regarding the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. 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Employees eligible to work from home also receive a monthly connectivity reimbursement to help offset internet costs. When working from home, you must have a dedicated, private workspace free from distractions, along with appropriate desk and seating. Reliable internet is required, with minimum speeds of 50 MB download and 5 MB upload.