Staff Engineer - PKI

About the role

GEICO is seeking an experienced Staff Engineer with a passion for building high performance, low maintenance, zero-downtime platforms, and applications. The ideal candidate 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

The Staff Engineer works with our Distinguished Engineers, Sr. Staff Engineer's, and Sr. Engineers to innovate and build new systems, improve, and enhance existing systems as well as identify new opportunities to apply their knowledge to solve critical problems. They will lead the strategy and execution of a technical roadmap that increases the velocity of delivering products and unlocks new engineering capabilities.

Position Responsibilities

• Focus on multiple areas and provide technical and thought leadership to the enterprise
• Collaborate with product managers, team members, customers, and other engineering teams to solve our toughest problems
• Develop and execute technical software development strategy for the IaaS Engineering domain, while optimizing for performance and efficiency
• Own accountability for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions
• Be a role model and mentor, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community
• Influence and educate executives
• Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams
• Analyze cost and forecast, incorporating them into business plans
• Determine and support resource requirements, evaluate operational processes, measure outcomes to ensure desired results, demonstrate adaptability and sponsor continuous learning
• Take on-call and operation support

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of PKI and Certificate Management
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft ADCS (Active Directory Certificate Services) including Certificate Template management
• Enrollment and Issuance Criteria Certificate Authority Governance and Operations
• Deep foundations in software engineering
• Deep hands-on experience in complex system design and data pipeline and architectures, scale and performance, tuning, with good knowledge on Docker and Kubernetes
• Professional experience in software development at least one modern programming language, including Go, Python, Java, or Rust
• Hands-on experience with public and/or private cloud environments (OpenShift, Kubernetes, Azure, AWS, GCP, etc.)
• Experience and technical knowledge of security engineering, system and network security, authentication and security protocols and cryptography
• Experience in CI/CD pipeline and related open-source tools like GIT/Jenkin/CircleCI/SonarQube and knowledge in Terraform will be a big plus
• Demonstrated ability to design and implement resilient, scalable, and efficient solutions
• Strong problem-solving abilities and a proactive approach to identifying and mitigating risks
• Excellent communication skills, able to communicate complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Knowledge on Open-source monitoring software like Grafana and Prometheus
• One of more of the following certifications are highly desired: Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)

Annual Salary

$115,000.00 - $230,000.00

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.

GEICO will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.

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