Cyber Security Exposure Response Lead

Allstate • McCullom Lake, IL

3d • $100,000 - $170,500

About The Position

Allstate is hiring three Cyber Security Exposure Response Leads aligned to East, Central, and West U.S. operating-day coverage. The role is part of a newly established Exposure Management function within the cybersecurity organization, focused on identifying, prioritizing, and mitigating security vulnerabilities based on business risk and exploitability rather than relying solely on traditional patch approaches.

This is a senior, hands-on technical role that combines exposure investigation, threat-hunting and incident-response techniques, Incident Command, cross-functional coordination, and analyst development. The Lead investigates newly disclosed CVEs, zero-days, KEVs, actively exploited vulnerabilities, and other critical exposures; assesses enterprise impact; develops and refines scope; coordinates remediation; and drives events toward risk reduction. When findings indicate potential or active compromise, the Lead engages the appropriate SOC and Incident Response teams and provides technical context to support their response.

Each Lead generally works 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. in their respective time zone. Exposure Response is a unified team, with structured handoffs across coverage periods to maintain continuity. The broader operation supports a 24/7/365 response model; these positions participate in an on-call rotation, and critical events may occasionally require work beyond normal hours.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of cybersecurity or technology operations experience involving technical investigation, coordination, escalation, and resolution.
• Demonstrated ability to lead or coordinate high-priority, fast-moving operational events and make sound decisions with incomplete or changing information.
• Strong hands-on technical and investigative skills, including correlating multiple data sources, testing assumptions, establishing scope and impact, and determining required actions.
• Ability to coordinate across technical teams without direct authority and drive issues toward resolution.
• Experience mentoring, training, or providing technical guidance to developing analysts.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in Security Operations, Incident Response, Threat Hunting, network operations, infrastructure operations, or another high-tempo technical operations environment.
• Experience applying threat-hunting or incident-response investigative techniques to events where scope and impact evolved during the investigation.
• Experience leading significant security or technical events, including Incident Command.
• Familiarity with enterprise vulnerability, endpoint, cloud, asset, network, or exposure-management technologies.

Responsibilities

• Investigate newly disclosed CVEs, zero-days, KEVs, actively exploited vulnerabilities, and critical exposures.
• Correlate security and technology data, test hypotheses, identify affected assets, and continually refine event scope and impact as information emerges.
• Lead fast-moving exposure events and serve as Incident Commander when appropriate.
• Make timely decisions with incomplete or changing information, establish priorities, coordinate parallel workstreams, and track actions and decisions.
• Coordinate across technology and security teams to establish ownership, drive remediation, resolve blockers, maintain momentum, and escalate issues that threaten timely risk reduction.
• Engage SOC and Incident Response teams when findings indicate potential or active compromise, providing technical context for their response.
• Coach and train analysts in exposure investigation, threat hunting, investigative analysis, scope development, case management, escalation, and operational decision-making.
• Maintain operational awareness and documentation of active events, including scope, findings, decisions, ownership, remediation status, blockers, and unresolved questions.
• Provide structured handoffs across coverage periods to support continuity and continued investigation, decision-making, and remediation.

Benefits

• Comprehensive technology setup, including a laptop, monitors, headset, keyboard, and mouse.
• Monthly connectivity reimbursement for employees eligible to work from home.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed