GEICO

Senior Staff Engineer, Operations Engineer

GEICO

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: SeattleCaliforniaMarylandUnited States

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Salary

💰 $130,000 - $260,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Monitor and track signals of security gaps, initiative delays, compliance risks due to system issues, and drive resolution.
  • Create visuals on current state of the union related to security engineering.
  • Help to develop standards on reporting tool effectiveness, maturity, resilience and other factors in determining risks as they come up.
  • Help drive automation of routine tasks to drive growth in security protection and detection technologies.
  • Provide expert guidance, demonstrations and lead discussions on security best practices to stakeholders and leadership.
  • Work in lockstep with our CSIRT, GRC, Tech and partner teams to ensure protection coverages, proper detection event notifications, documentation and standards we can all use.
  • Organize, store and manage operational best practices documentation for security solutions to protect our platforms including endpoint, cloud, collaboration, identity and network.
  • Partner with the project sponsors, delivery teams, and stakeholders to deliver quality solutions on time and within budget by coordinating project activities across multiple systems, departments, and teams.
  • Create, maintain, and actively manage a detailed project schedule, change control process, and documentation.
  • Identify and raise appropriate security risks, in addition to presenting detailed and implementable solutions or alternatives.

Requirements

  • Infrastructure technologies knowledge in a hybrid cloud environment such as Containerization, VMs, CI/CD pipeline, IaC.
  • Extensive experience in engineering and solution delivery in a dynamic service provider environment.
  • Strong program and project management skills with proven experience coordinating projects across multiple teams, with successful project/product delivery at scale.
  • Working knowledge of security services and their impact on production systems including runtime protection services, detective and protective agents and/or daemon sets, vulnerability and application scanning, etc.
  • Experience in a multi-platform environment with Linux, Mac, Windows.
  • Experience communicating and presenting to senior and junior staff with the ability to influence stakeholders.
  • Detail and deadline-oriented with effective organizational and analytic skills.
  • Strong critical thinking, problem-solving, decision making, and analytical skills.
  • Outstanding time management skills and attention to detail.
  • Excellent verbal/written communication skills, including the ability to clearly document findings, proposals, issues, and status.
  • Experience with continuous delivery.
  • Self-motivated and able to work independently while coordinating activities with cross-divisional teams.
  • Effective leadership qualities, ability to influence without direct management authority.
  • Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment.
  • Knowledge of industry-standard security control frameworks including PCI, SOX, NYDFS.
  • Experience 8+ years in an engineering-focused role, preferably in the tech industry.
  • 4+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or other cloud providers.
  • 4+ years in a senior role influencing company direction.
  • Experience applying engineering to meet or exceed third party attestation requirements (PCI, SOX, …).
Benefits
  • Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your family’s overall well-being.
  • Financial benefits including market-competitive compensation; a 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match; performance and recognition-based incentives; and tuition assistance.
  • Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance.
  • Supports flexibility- We provide workplace flexibility as well as our GEICO Flex program, which offers the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
ContainerizationVMsCI/CD pipelineIaCsecurity servicesruntime protection servicesvulnerability scanningapplication scanningLinuxWindows
Soft Skills
program managementproject managementcommunicationorganizational skillsanalytical skillscritical thinkingproblem-solvingtime managementattention to detailleadership
Certifications
PCISOXNYDFS