Hybrid Senior Staff Engineer, Operations Engineer

at GEICO

• Job title: Senior Staff Engineer, Operations Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $130,000 - $260,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Azure, Cloud, Google Cloud Platform, Linux
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Seattle, United States

About the role

• Sr. Staff Engineer focusing on security engineering and project management at GEICO. Collaborating with teams to monitor and address security risks and deliver quality solutions.

Responsibilities

• 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.