Network Engineer

Position: Staff Network Engineer
At GEICO, we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless possibilities.

Every day we honor our iconic brand by offering quality coverage to millions of customers and being there when they need us most. We thrive through relentless innovation to exceed our customers’ expectations while making a real impact for our company through our shared purpose.

When you join our company, we want you to feel valued, supported and proud to work here. That’s why we offer The GEICO Pledge:
Great Company, Great Culture, Great Rewards and Great Careers.

At GEICO, we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless possibilities.

Every day we honor our iconic brand by offering quality coverage to millions of customers and being there when they need us most. We thrive through relentless innovation to exceed our customers’ expectations while making a real impact for our company through our shared purpose.

When you join our company, we want you to feel valued, supported and proud to work here. That’s why we offer The GEICO Pledge:
Great Company, Great Culture, Great Rewards and Great Careers.

Position SummaryGEICO is seeking an experienced Engineer with a passion for building high-performance, low maintenance, zero-downtime platforms, and applications. You 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 Our Staff Engineer works with our Distinguished Engineer and Sr. Engineers to innovate and build new systems, improve, and enhance existing systems as well as identify new opportunities to apply your knowledge to solve critical problems. You will lead the strategy and execution of a technical roadmap that will increase the velocity of delivering products and unlock new engineering capabilities.

The ideal candidate has deep technical expertise in designing, implementing, and maintaining overall network infrastructure.

Position Responsibilities Design, implement, and maintain network infrastructure, including five-stage Clos data center fabrics, routers, switches, Palo Alto next-generation firewalls, VPN, hybrid connectivity to Azure, AWS and supporting services such as enterprise DNSImplement network policies and security measures to protect against cyber threats and ensure compliance with industry standards

Design, deploy, and support Azure network infrastructure (for example, VNets, hybrid connectivity, routing, network security, and private access patterns), ensuring performance, security, and reliability

Implement and maintain observability for the network platform, including metrics, alerts, and dashboards, and use that visibility to drive proactive detection and faster incident response

Configure and optimize routing and switching behavior across WAN, and data center environments, including traffic engineering, resiliency, and operational guardrails

Configure and maintain firewall policy, segmentation, and secure connectivity patterns in partnership with security and platform teams

Collaborate with stakeholders and team members to develop customized network designs and configurations aligned to business outcomes, risk tolerance, and reference architectures

Monitor network performance and proactively identify and resolve issues to minimize impact and ensure maximum uptime

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

Determine and support resource requirements, evaluate operational processes, measure outcomes to ensure desired results, demonstrate adaptability, and sponsor continuous learning

Participate in on-call rotation for after-hours support and maintenance activities

Develop and maintain automation using Python and Ansible (and related tooling) to standardize changes, reduce toil, improve quality, and accelerate safe delivery across routers, switches, firewalls, and cloud network constructs

Create new and re-engineer existing processes, workflows, scripts, and automation to improve quality and efficiency

Understand and promote network standards, reference architectures, and frameworks; develop and maintain strategic roadmaps for network platforms and services

Qualifications

Experience designing, implementing, and troubleshooting large-scale IP fabrics, including Clos/spine-leaf designs (five-stage Clos experience preferred where applicable)
Strong understanding of WAN and data center interconnect technologies, including MPLS, VPN, BGP-based designs, and diverse carrier circuits

Knowledge of network security principles and best practices, including firewalls, VPN, and intrusion detection/prevention concepts as implemented on enterprise platforms

Expertise in configuring and…