Senior Operations Engineer - Cybersecurity

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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 on relentless innovation to exceed our customers' expectations while making a real impact on local communities nationwide. Founded in 1936, GEICO is a member of the Berkshire Hathaway family of companies and one of the largest auto insurers in the United States.

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• Monitor and track signals of security gaps, initiative delays, compliance risks due to system issues, and drive resolution.
• Create visuals on current state of the union related to security engineering.
• Help to develop standards on reporting tool effectiveness, maturity, resilience and other factors in determining risks as they come up.
• Help drive efficiencies in technology evaluations, requirements gathering and procurement or creation.
• Provide expert guidance, demonstrations and lead discussions on security best practices to stakeholders and leadership.
• Works in lockstep with our CSIRT, GRC, Tech and partner teams to ensure protection coverages, proper detection event notifications, documentation and standards we can all use.
• Organize, store and manage operational best practices documentation for security solutions to protect our platforms including endpoint, cloud, collaboration, identity and network.
• Partner with the project sponsors, delivery teams, and stakeholders to deliver quality solutions on time and within budget by coordinating project activities across multiple systems, departments, and teams.
• Create, maintain, and actively manage a detailed project schedule, change control process, and documentation.
• Identify and raise appropriate security risks, in addition to presenting detailed and implementable solutions or alternatives.

• Infrastructure technologies knowledge in a hybrid cloud environment such including Containerization, VMs, CI/CD pipeline, IaC,
• Extensive experience in engineering and solution delivery in a dynamic service provider environment.
• Strong program and project management skills with proven experience coordinating projects across multiple teams, with successful project/product delivery at scale
• Working knowledge of security services and their impact on production systems including runtime protection services, detective and protective agents and/or daemon sets, vulnerability and application scanning, etc..
• Experience in a multi-platform environment with Linux, Mac, Windows.
• Experience communicating and presentating to senior and junior staff with the ability to influence stakeholders.
• Detail and deadline oriented with effective organizational and analytic skills
• Strong critical thinking, problem solving, decision making, and analytical skills
• Outstanding time management skills and attention to detail
• Excellent verbal/written communication skills, including the ability to clearly document findings, proposals, issues, and status
• Experience with continuous delivery
• Self-motivated and able to work independently while coordinating activities with cross-divisional teams
• Effective leadership qualities, ability to influence without direct management authority
• Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment.
• Knowledge of industry-standard security control frameworks including PCI, SOX, NYDFS.

• 8+ years in am engineering focused role, preferably in the tech industry
• 4+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or other cloud providers
• 4+ years in a senior role influencing company direction
• Experience applying engineering to meet or exceed third party attestation requirements (PCI, SOX, ...).

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cyber Security, or equivalent education with work experience
• Third party certifications on engineering related technologies.

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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/ 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…