Hybrid Senior Manager, Network Engineering

at GEICO

• Job title: Senior Manager, Network Engineering
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $150,000 - $300,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Ansible, Python, Terraform
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Palo Alto, United States

About the role

• Senior Manager leading the Network Services team at GEICO, enhancing engineering solutions in a mission-critical environment. Focused on team mentorship and network architecture improvement.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of network engineers in a 24x7 large scale, mission critical environment
• Work with your senior leadership to address project dependencies, negotiate and estimate incremental delivery dates for milestones with the stakeholder community, and deliver projects on time
• Ownership of the end-to-end delivery of team strategy, platforms, and services
• Identify and raise appropriate project risks, in addition to presenting detailed and implementable solutions or alternatives
• Develop, maintain, and track service performance metrics for effectiveness, quality, and improvement. Report on your team’s progress for project and other key metrics, in addition to presenting detailed and implementable ideas for areas to further improve or influence product or project delivery
• Understand how requirements and design choices may impact systems across multiple areas
• Initiate and support performance evaluation of team members
• Cultivate a culture that motivates all levels of performers to higher levels of achievement
• Identify where technical or analytical skill gaps put future team deliverables at risk and craft a plan to remediate, consistently challenge team members to share knowledge and learn new technologies
• Build and maintain relationships with your team members to support an environment of trust
• Develop the team budget and be accountable for reporting on results achieved at regular intervals
• Significantly contribute to the team planning process to include surfacing associate level proposals

Requirements

• Experience 6+ years network infrastructure engineering and operations experience
• 6+ years of coding experience is desired
• 5+ years of experience in a large-scale, mission-critical environment
• 5+ years of significant experience building scalable, fault-tolerant, and robust products and platforms
• 5+ years of hands-on work experience supervising personnel in a technical environment
• 3+ years scripting/coding experience in languages or frameworks such as Bash, Python, GO, Ansible, or Terraform
• 2+ years of experience with automated testing including Unit, Integration, and End-to-End functional testing is desired
• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology or related field, or equivalent experience

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.