Manager, Staff Engineering - Cryptography

Manager, Staff Engineering - Cryptography

GEICO is seeking an experienced Manager of Engineering with a passion for building high performance, low-latency platforms, and applications. You will build and manage a team of engineers with a deep focus on delivering enterprise-wide products to operate in a highly performant and efficient way. You will help drive our insurance business transformation as we redefine experiences for our customers.

Position Responsibilities

• 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
• Management responsibility for a team of cryptography (secrets/certificates/PKI) and data protection engineers
• Ownership of the end-to-end delivery of team strategy and platforms.
• Identify and raise appropriate project risks, in addition to presenting detailed and implementable solutions or alternatives
• Understand how requirements and design choices may impact systems across multiple areas
• 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
• Initiate and support performance evaluation of team members
• Cultivate a culture that motivates all levels of performers to higher levels of achievement
• Build and maintain relationships with your team members to support an environment of trust
• Significantly contribute to the team planning process to include surfacing associate level proposals

Qualifications

• Software and system design knowledge and experience
• Knowledge of cloud computing technologies and concepts (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, etc.)
• Management experience in
  • Hashi Corp Vault Operations and Engineering
  • Secrets Management systems
  • Azure Key Vault Operations and Engineering
  • HSM management (Safe Net, Thales, etc.)
• Demonstrated conflict management, decision making and negotiation skills
• Proven ability to concentrate and demonstrate a capacity for learning technical concepts and adapting to new technologies quickly
• Strong Cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure etc.) platform knowledge
• Highly familiar with modern network, compute, storage, database, virtualization, cloud, and security technologies
• Fluency with API development and Event Driven Architectures
• Fluency with at least one modern language such as Python, Java, Go and experience with open-source software is a big plus
• Experience in application monitoring tools and performance assessments
• Constructing, interpreting, and applying metrics to your work and decision making, able to use those metrics to identify correlation between drivers and results, and using that information to drive prioritization and action
• Relevant certifications (e.g., CISSP, CISM, CISA) are highly desirable.

Experience

• 6+ years coding experience
• 5+ years of development in a large-scale, mission-critical environment
• 5+ years of hands-on work experience supervising personnel in a technical environment
• 2+ years' experience with automated testing including Unit, Integration, and End-to-End functional testing

Education

Bachelor's degree in information technology or related field, or equivalent experience

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.

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

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