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.

GEICO 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.

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.

• 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 DNS
• Implement 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,…