Senior Threat Hunting (Lead)

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

Key Responsibilities

• Leadhypothesis-driven, intelligence-led hunt campaigns from formulation through reporting, mapped to MITRE ATT&CK
• Design and executecustom analytics against large-scale security telemetry (SIEM, EDR/XDR, identity, cloud, network) to uncover adversary tradecraft that evades existing detections
• Performidentity-centric hunting across Entra ID, Active Directory, and SaaS platforms - token theft, session hijacking, MFA bypass, OAuth abuse, and conditional access circumvention.
• Conductcloud-native hunting across AWS, Azure, M365, and SaaS control planes, including audit logs, identity events, and workload telemetry.
• Convert hunt findings intodurable detections, signatures, and SOAR playbooks in partnership with Detection Engineering, closing the hunt-to-detect loop

• PerformDeception Operationsby defining adversary-aligned use cases, authoring detection requirements for deception-generated activity, and tuning signal vs. noise thresholds

• Leverage AI and LLM-assisted tooling to accelerate hunting - including query generation, log summarization, entity pivoting, anomaly clustering, and large-scale pattern discovery across disparate telemetry sources
• Hunt within AI and LLM environments - including enterprise copilots, internal/external LLM deployments, AI agents, RAG pipelines, model endpoints, and AI/ML infrastructure - for threats such as prompt injection, model abuse, data exfiltration via AI channels, agent hijacking, supply-chain compromise of models, and unauthorized model access
• Producepost-hunt reports with explicit evidence and measurable outcomes tied to exposure reduction
• Partner withThreat Intelligence to operationalize finished intel into targeted hunt missions and feed collection requirements upstream
• Supportpurple-team exercises and validate detection efficacy against adversary emulation campaigns (Atomic Red Team, CALDERA, Stratus Red Team)
• Develop and maintaincustom tooling and automation to support hunting, investigation, and analyst efficiency
• Mentor junior hunters; contribute to internal knowledge bases, hunt libraries, and team training
• SupportIncident Response, Forensics, and Insider Threat / Fraud investigations as a senior technical resource when adversary expertise is needed
• Serve as aliaison for Threat Services across Cyber Operations, communicating findings clearly to technical peers and executive leadership
• Identify needs, drive solutions, and operateautonomously within strategic priorities

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in security operations, with4+ of those dedicated to threat hunting
• Deep experience hunting inlarge, complex enterprise environments
• Demonstrable experience executingMITRE ATT&CK-aligned hunts with documented outcomes and detection handoffs
• Hands-on experience with modernSIEM (Splunk, Sentinel, Elastic) andEDR/XDR (CrowdStrike, Defender, SentinelOne, Tanium)
• Demonstrated experience using AI/LLM-assisted tooling (e.g., Security Copilot, custom GPTs, agentic workflows, embeddings-based analytics) to accelerate hunting, triage, and analytic development.
• Working knowledge of hunting in AI/LLM environments - familiarity with the MITRE ATLAS framework, OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications, and common AI-specific threats (prompt injection, model theft, training data poisoning, agent abuse, sensitive data leakage through AI channels)
• Working knowledge ofthreat intelligence frameworks: Diamond Model, Kill Chain, and the Pyramid of Pain
• Strong scripting and automation skills inPython, PowerShell, GO, and/or Bash
• Deep understanding of common network and application stack protocols: TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, HTTP, SMTP, etc.
• Experience withsignature and analytic development: CQL/KQL/SPL analytics, Sigma, YARA, Snort/Suricata
• Excellentanalytical and problem-solving skills, with a research mindset and a passion for puzzles
• Strongwritten and verbal communication, including the ability to produce executive-ready summaries of technical findings
• Demonstratedleadership and mentorship capability
• Strong motivation to understand and train in new technologies, techniques, and a self-starter
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in IT Security, Computer Science, Engineering,or equivalent experience and certifications

Desirable Criteria

• Proficiency inKQL/CQL/SPL; comfortable building complex queries and analytics across large datasets
• Experience hunting incloud environments (AWS, Azure, M365) using native telemetry such as CloudTrail, Azure Activity, M365 Unified Audit Log, and identity provider logs
• Adversary emulation experience using Atomic Red Team, CALDERA, Stratus Red Team, or equivalent
• Recent experience withmalware analysis and reverse engineering
• Hands-on experience securing or hunting withinAI/ML pipelines, model registries, vector databases, and agentic systems
• Hands-on experience withvulnerability research,penetration testing or exploit development (offensive mindset)
• Experience withcontainer and Kubernetes security telemetry (Falco, runtime security, cloud workload protection)
• Experience consumingdeception technology outputs as a hunting data source
• Familiarity withthreat hunting maturity models (e.g., Hunting Maturity Model - HMM) and capability of advancing program maturity
• Experience withinsider threat or fraud-adjacent hunting use cases
• Published research, conference talks, CTF participation, or contributions to open-source detection content (Sigma rules, Atomic Red Team, hunt libraries)
• Familiarity withOT/ICS or IoT environments
• Relevant certifications such as:
  • GIAC: GCTD, GCTI, GCFA, GCFE, GNFA, GREM, GDAT, GCIA
  • Offensive: OSCP, OSCE, CRTO
  • Cloud: AWS Security Specialty, AZ-500, SC-200
  • AI Security: AI/ML security certifications, MITRE ATLAS training, AI red-team credentials
  • Foundational: CISSP, CEH
• Tool-specific certifications in Splunk, Sentinel, CrowdStrike, or similar platforms

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About Allstate

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.

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.

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