Manager, Staff Engineering - Cryptography

Manager, Staff Engineering - Cryptography Position Summary

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 focused on delivering enterprise‑wide products that operate in a highly performant and efficient way, helping to drive our insurance business transformation and redefine customer experiences.

The Engineering Manager is a leader who works with the engineering staff to innovate and build new engineering solutions, improve and enhance existing ones, and leverage engineering solutions to solve critical operational problems. A manager will lead the strategy and execution of a technical roadmap that increases the speed of delivering products and unlocks new engineering capabilities. The ideal candidate has deep technical expertise in secrets management, certificates management & PKI, cryptography, and data protection.

• Work with senior leadership to address project dependencies, negotiate and estimate incremental delivery dates for milestones with stakeholders, 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 and present detailed implementable solutions or alternatives.
• Understand how requirements and design choices may impact systems across multiple areas.
• Report on team progress for project and other key metrics, and present detailed implementable ideas for improvement or influence on 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 team members to support an environment of trust.
• Significantly contribute to the team planning process to include surfacing associate‑level proposals.

• 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.

• 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.

Bachelor’s degree in information technology or a related field, or equivalent experience.

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The above annual salary range is a general guideline. Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final hourly rate and annual salary offered to the selected candidate, including 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.

• Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage…