Identity Security Distinguished Engineer

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GEICO is seeking an Identity Security Distinguished Engineer to provide security specific strategic and technical direction for our identity and access management solutions with our user, development and production domains. This individual will play a lead role within GEICO’s Cybersecurity team, with a focus on defensive and protective controls, compliance and governance automation and driving modernization in our identity strategy. Our Distinguished Engineer will be the technical and engineering lead for a team of engineers who proactively and holistically deliver secure IAM configuration, threat detection, strategic partnership on the IAM roadmap and create automated proof and validation of our controls.

You will help our business transformation as we transition from a traditional IT Security model to a tech organization with engineering excellence as its mission, while co-creating a culture of leveraging security to enable the business and protecting against the latest threats. You will innovate and lead new initiatives, improve Security, enhance existing systems while also identifying new opportunities with an offensive security mindset to find critical problems and solve at a rapid pace.

You will help lead the confirmation our systems are protected through automated testing and continuous improvement to raise the bar and foster a proactive security culture which also enables the business without impact.

The ideal candidate has deep technical expertise in this domain and an attacker/defender adversarial background. As a Distinguished Engineer, you will:
Influence and educate staff at all levels to bring a security minded approach to difficult challenges balancing usability and security. Provide technical guidance and mentorship to the team, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvements. Collaborate with cross-functional leaders, team members, IAM engineering, and peer security teams to solve complex problems with minimal business impact. Proactively identify opportunities to enhance security measures, streamline processes, and optimize tooling to fortify our environment against emerging threats.

Deliver automation initiatives, conduct advanced research, and develop proofs of concept to enhance our security capabilities and improve overall efficiency. Help develop and implement engineered automation to ensure compliance with industry regulations and frameworks which demonstrates without manual efforts. Work with our business partners to help derive and validate mitigation techniques for identified threats and/or non-compliance. Define roadmaps for securing various identities with purposeful and functional security without impacting or unnecessary overhead.

Automated adversarial testing of our identity systems to ensure detection mechanisms function appropriately and efficiently. Provide motivating demonstrations and communications to show the value of our security measures to the business, highlighting the low impact on systems, improved operability and…