Senior Network Engineer

At GEICO, we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless possibilities. 

Every day we honor our iconic brand by offering quality coverage to millions of customers and being there when they need us most. We thrive through relentless innovation to exceed our customers’ expectations while making a real impact for our company through our shared purpose. 

When you join our company, we want you to feel valued, supported and proud to work here. That’s why we offer The GEICO Pledge: Great Company, Great Culture, Great Rewards and Great Careers.

Senior Engineer - Network Services

Position Summary

GEICO is seeking an experienced Engineer with a passion for building high-performance, low maintenance, zero-downtime platforms, and applications.  You will help drive our insurance business transformation as we transition from a traditional IT model to a tech organization with engineering excellence as its mission, while co-creating the culture of psychological safety and continuous improvement.

Position Description

Our Senior Engineer is a key member of the engineering staff working across the organization to support efforts to proactively ensure the highest level of systems and infrastructure availability, stability, scalability, and performance. Our team thrives and succeeds in delivering high-quality technology products and services in a hyper-growth environment where priorities shift quickly.The ideal candidate has deep technical expertise in designing, implementing, and maintaining overall network infrastructure.

Position Responsibilities

As a Senior Engineer, you will:

• Provide daily support and perform maintenance tasks for security infrastructure components including, but not limited to, Web Security Gateways (Zscaler, CISCO WSA), Network Access Control systems (ISE), Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems (IDS/IPS), Web Application Firewall (WAF), Firewall policy and rules implementation, etc.
• Architect, design, and maintain DNS, DHCP, NTP and IP Address Management frameworks and standards for operational efficiency.
• Publish Network related documentation sets for runbooks, as-built, and design reference 
• Conduct risk and impact assessments; skills for troubleshooting and change management
• Support, operate, and maintain large scale, critical Network environment, platforms, and services 
• Triage, analyze, and perform root cause analysis for network-related issues 
• Create new and re-engineer existing processes, workflows, scripts, and automation to improve quality and efficiency
• Provide 24x7 after hours on-call support and support for off-hour implementations 
• Leverage enterprise network management platforms and practices to run large-scale deployments efficiently and effectively 

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience managing and troubleshooting DNS, DHCP, IPAM, and NTP in a large enterprise environment with DDI platforms like Infoblox, BlueCat, MS DNS, or similar
• Experience in supporting firewalls such as Palo Alto Networks
• Experience supporting Web Security Gateways (Zscaler, CISCO WSA), Network Access Control systems (ISE), Web Application Firewall (WAF).
• Understanding the current regulatory environment and related implications to security and audit compliance (SOX, PCI, etc.)
• Knowledge of scripting languages like Python, Bash, or PowerShell
• Ability to create network topologies maps; document processes and standards
• Excellent problem solving, analytical, organizational, and project management skills 
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including communicating technical issues to non-technical audiences 
• Operate in a highly dynamic and high-pressure environment while ensuring a high level of operational effectiveness
• Possess a strong sense of ownership, responsibility, motivation, and continuous improvement 
• Passionate about technology, systems engineering, and delivering high quality solutions 
• Knowledge of common network architectures and communications protocols is desired
• Understanding of network security principles and best practices is desired
• Familiarity with network infrastructure including switches, routers, and firewalls is desired
• Ability to perform advanced packet/protocol analysis throughout the seven-layer OSI reference model is desired
• Experience with network performance, capacity, configuration, and fault management is desired
• Experience in public cloud infrastructure is desired
• The following active certification is highly desired:
  • Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) or willingness to pursue within 12 months

Experience

• 4+ years of professional software development experience in a large-scale network environment
• 3+ years of experience with architecture and design
• 3+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service
• 2+ years of experience in open-source frameworks

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience

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Annual Salary

The above annual salary range is a general guideline. Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final hourly rate/ annual salary to be offered to the selected candidate. Factors include, but are not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the role, the selected candidate’s work experience, education and training, the work location as well as market and business considerations.

The GEICO Pledge:

Great Company: At GEICO, we help our customers through life’s twists and turns. Our mission is to protect people when they need it most and we’re constantly evolving to stay ahead of their needs.

We’re an iconic brand that thrives on innovation, exceeding our customers’ expectations and enabling our collective success. From day one, you’ll take on exciting challenges that help you grow and collaborate with dynamic teams who want to make a positive impact on people’s lives.

Great Careers: We offer a career where you can learn, grow, and thrive through personalized development programs, created with your career – and your potential – in mind.  You’ll have access to industry leading training, certification assistance, career mentorship and coaching with supportive leaders at all levels.

Great Culture: We foster an inclusive culture of shared success, rooted in integrity, a bias for action and a winning mindset. Grounded by our core values, we have an an established culture of caring, inclusion, and belonging, that values different perspectives. Our teams are led by dynamic, multi-faceted teams led by supportive leaders, driven by performance excellence and unified under a shared purpose.

As part of our culture, we also offer employee engagement and recognition programs that reward the positive impact our work makes on the lives of our customers.

Great Rewards: We offer compensation and benefits built to enhance your physical well-being, mental and emotional health and financial future.

• 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.

The equal employment opportunity policy of the GEICO Companies provides for a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, familial status, disability or genetic information, in compliance with applicable federal, state and local law. GEICO hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled.

GEICO reasonably accommodates qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to receive equal employment opportunity and/or perform the essential functions of the job, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship to the Company. This applies to all applicants and associates. GEICO also provides a work environment in which each associate is able to be productive and work to the best of their ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment. We expect and require the cooperation of all associates in maintaining an atmosphere free from discrimination and harassment with mutual respect by and for all associates and applicants.