Senior Staff Engineer, Cybersecurity Response

GEICO is seeking an enthusiastic and self-motivated Senior Staff Cybersecurity Engineer to join the growing Cyber Fusion Center team. As an engineer in cybersecurity at GEICO, you’ll lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects from start to finish – working with stakeholders to plan requirements, manage project schedules, identify risks, and communicate clearly with cross-functional partners across the company. It's your job to coordinate the stakeholders and keep them up to date on progress and deadlines, and drive for impact for GEICO and our customers. 

Position Description: 

In this role, you will work across engineering and cybersecurity teams to define and drive engineering solutions, improve and enhance existing processes, and solve critical operational problems. You will contribute to vision and strategy, and you will develop the technical roadmap to deliver solutions that transform or unlock new cybersecurity capabilities. You will be data-driven and seek to apply an engineering mindset to the problems of scale, automation and effectiveness, and look to continually assess and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of security response. You will work closely with Cyber Fusion Center leaders to deliver on our vision for a unified, common operating picture that combines threat intelligence, security telemetry, behavioral analytics, and other signals into clear, actionable intelligence and business insights that drive timely and effective response, and you will have experience in driving or managing critical cybersecurity programs, with experience in defining and reporting on key metrics that continuously drive improved impact.  

Position Responsibilities 

As a Senior Staff Engineer, Cybersecurity Response, you will: 

• Help define a clear vision, strategy and roadmap, and drive critical Cybersecurity programs within GEICO’s Cyber Fusion Center. 

• Define the business and technical requirements for software and systems that are needed to improve the capabilities, efficiency, speed, and effectiveness of the Cyber Fusion Center, and work with engineering teams to ensure these requirements are developed and released in a timely manner. 

• Collaborate with Cyber Fusion Center partner teams to understand challenges of response operations, performance, and resiliency; formulating strategies to address issues in a sustainable way. 

• Lead and influence stakeholders to assemble project teams, assign responsibilities, identify appropriate resources needed and develop schedules to ensure timely completion of projects by meeting project milestones. 

• Assess risks, anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, make tradeoffs, balance the business needs versus technical constraints and encourage risk taking behavior to maximize business benefit. 

• Prioritize program goals, understand and translate stakeholders’ needs into goals and deliverables with minimal assistance, and contribute to decisions on prioritizing joint goals and deliverables across one or more cross function teams. 

• Improve program impact by defining, monitoring, and reporting key program metrics to continuously drive improved impact. 

Basic Qualifications: 

• 5+ years of organizational leadership, either directly as a leader, or in a chief-of-staff, senior technical advisor, or similar roles. 

• 4+ years of cybersecurity response experience, including incident response. 

• 3+ years of experience of working with engineering teams. 

• 2+ years of technical product, program management, or software design experience. 

• Knowledge of cloud computing technologies and concepts (Saas, Paas, IaaS, etc.), and infrastructure functions including network, distributed compute, storage, and server infrastructure, etc. 

• Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes, and driving progress against roadmaps. 

Preferred Qualifications:

• 2+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience. 

• Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules. 

• Knowledge of business continuity, disaster recovery, and resiliency. 

• Experience defining and reporting on key metrics used to drive cybersecurity operations and response effectiveness. 

 

Annual Salary

$130,000.00 - $260,000.00

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.

 

Benefits:

As an Associate, you’ll enjoy our Total Rewards Program* to help secure your financial future and preserve your health and well-being, including:

• Premier Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance with no waiting period**
• Paid Vacation, Sick and Parental Leave
• 401(k) Plan
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Paid Training and Licensures

*Benefits may be different by location.  Benefit eligibility requirements vary and may include length of service.

**Coverage begins on the date of hire. Must enroll in New Hire Benefits within 30 days of the date of hire for coverage to take effect.

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.