Define the technical roadmap for vulnerability management and patch automation platforms.
Establish standards, patterns, and paved roads for scanning, triage, remediation, and verification.
Mentor engineers across Security and Platform teams on software and systems design best practices.
Drive design reviews, architecture decisions, and quality gates for reliability and security.
Design and implement services for asset/CMDB enrichment, risk scoring, and intelligent targeting (by business criticality, exposure, blast radius).
Build controllers/schedulers for maintenance windows, deployment rings/canaries, pre/post checks, automated backoff/rollback, and progressive delivery.
Deliver self‑service CLIs/SDKs and internal UIs to request, schedule, and track remediation with clear SLAs and audit trails.
Implement idempotent, policy‑driven workflows for patching and baseline enforcement across Windows and Linux.
Integrate with image pipelines (e.g., Packer/golden images) to shift‑left patching and hardening.
Operate and automate patch tooling and package managers with safety guardrails.

Requirements

8+ years of professional software or platform engineering experience, including building and operating automation at scale.
6+ years administering or engineering for Windows and/or Linux in enterprise environments.
4+ years integrating vulnerability scanners and/or building remediation workflows and platforms.
3+ years implementing configuration management or hardening frameworks (CIS, STIG) via policy/code.
Demonstrated leadership driving cross-team adoption and measurable risk reduction.
4+ years of hands-on experience with Azure, OpenStack, AWS, GCP, or other cloud services.
2+ years working with open-source frameworks.

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

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools

vulnerability managementpatch automationsoftware design best practicesarchitecture decisionsasset/CMDB enrichmentrisk scoringidempotent workflowsconfiguration managementhardening frameworksautomation at scale

Soft Skills

mentoringleadershipcross-team collaborationcommunicationquality assurance