Senior Staff Cloud Security Engineer (HYBRID)

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.

GEICO is seeking a Senior Staff Cloud Security Engineer to provide strategic and technical direction in ensuring the security of our cloud-native infrastructure across public, private, and hybrid environments. As a key member of our Cloud Security team, you will lead the development, implementation, and oversight of comprehensive cloud security strategies, define roadmaps for cloud security enhancements, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive business outcomes while maintaining minimal impact on operations. You will leverage your expertise in cloud-native architecture to design and implement secure solutions that align with our business goals and tackle complex challenges while maintaining the delicate balance between security and usability.

As a Sr Staff Engineer, you will:

• Provide strategic and technical security direction in designing, implementing, and managing secure cloud infrastructures.

• Develop and maintain expertise in cloud-native security solutions, including container security, Kubernetes, Istio, and cloud networking and security services.

• Define and implement roadmaps for security enhancements, ensuring alignment with business objectives and minimal disruption to operations.

• Develop strong relationships with key stakeholders, including development teams, operations teams, and executive sponsors.

• Collaborate with various teams to design, deploy, troubleshoot, and enhance security measures, while balancing usability and security.

• Influence and educate staff at all levels on cloud security best practices, promoting a culture of cloud security awareness across the organization.

• Proactively identify opportunities to enhance security measures, streamline processes, and optimize tooling, leveraging an offensive security mindset.

• Support continuous improvement of our cloud security posture through innovative solutions.

• Mentor/train growing security engineers and provide technical direction and project leadership.

Qualifications:

• Deep technical expertise in public and private cloud compute infrastructure and cloud native technologies.

• Previous successful projects that iteratively transitioned legacy security models to next generation solutions.

• Deep technical knowledge of security threats, risks, and vulnerabilities within IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS environments and integrations.

• Experience in offensive and defensive security roles, with a strong hacker approach to guiding cloud security decisions.

• Experience communicating and presenting to senior and junior staff with the ability to influence stakeholders.

• Experience in a multi-platform environment with containerized or VM-based Linux and Windows.

• Experience with Container risk monitoring at both build and runtime.

• Experience with solving security control requirements with engineering approaches.

• Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment.

• Ability to design, perform experiments, and influence security detection and protection solutions.

• Strong knowledge of industry-standard security tools, frameworks, and best practices including Mitre, CIS and NIST.

• Demonstratable proficiency in common scripting languages with examples of automation at scale.

• Experience working with auditors and demonstrating security controls.

Experience:

• 8+ years in a security focused role, preferably in the tech industry

• 3+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or other cloud providers

• 3+ years in a senior role influencing company direction on security

• 3+ years of experience with top Cloud Identity providers.

• Experience applying security controls to exceed third party attestation requirements (PCI, SOC, …).

Education:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or Cybersecurity, or equivalent work experience.

• Third party certifications on end-user computing related technologies.

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.