Senior Manager, Network Engineering

Base pay range

$/yr - $/yr

At GEICO, we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless possibilities. We honor our iconic brand by delivering 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 on our company through a shared purpose.

Senior Manager, Network Engineering is an engineering leader who drives strategy and execution of a technical roadmap that unlocks new engineering capabilities. The Network Services team’s mission is to build and maintain the enterprise networks that make up our private and public cloud, campus, core, and wide area network (WAN). The ideal candidate has deep technical expertise in building and maintaining large‑scale networks that are secure, reliable, and scalable.

• Lead and mentor a team of network engineers in a 24x7 large‑scale, mission‑critical environment.
• Work with senior leadership to address project dependencies, negotiate and estimate incremental delivery dates for milestones with stakeholders, and deliver projects on time.
• Own end‑to‑end delivery of team strategy, platforms, and services.
• Identify and raise appropriate project risks and present detailed solutions or alternatives.
• Develop, maintain, and track service performance metrics for effectiveness, quality, and improvement.
• Report on team progress for project and other key metrics, presenting ideas for further improvement or influence on product or project delivery.
• Understand how requirements and design choices may impact systems across multiple areas.
• Initiate and support performance evaluation of team members and cultivate a culture that motivates all levels of performers to higher levels of achievement.
• Identify where technical or analytical skill gaps put future team deliverables at risk and craft remediation plans while consistently challenging team members to share knowledge and learn new technologies.
• Build and maintain relationships with your team members to support an environment of trust.
• Develop the team budget and report on results achieved at regular intervals.

• Experience with network technology and environments including datacenter, private and public cloud, campus, and wide area networks.
• Knowledge of secure network designs and security compliance requirements.
• Experience with network performance, capacity, configuration, and fault management processes and tools.
• Knowledge and experience with software and system design.
• Knowledge of cloud computing technologies and concepts (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, etc.).
• Experience with Linux, virtual machines, container (Docker/containers) technologies including running on private and public cloud infrastructure.
• Experience with software development, Dev Ops, Service/Infrastructure as Service and Operations.
• Basic understanding of CI/CD toolchain products like Jira, Git, Artifactory, Jenkins, Anchore, Sonar Qube and IaC tools like Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, and Chef.
• Knowledge of API, microservices, network and security architectures and design patterns.
• Understanding and experience with Python, JSON, XML, or RESTful services and open‑source software.
• 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 technical acumen in cloud architecture, performance benchmarking, and capacity planning.
• Ability to construct, interpret, and apply metrics to drive prioritization and action.

• 6+ years of network infrastructure engineering and operations experience.
• 5+ years of experience in a large‑scale, mission‑critical environment.
• 5+ years of significant experience building scalable, fault‑tolerant, and robust products and platforms.
• 5+ years of hands‑on supervisory experience in a technical environment.
• 3+ years of scripting/coding experience in languages or frameworks such as Bash, Python, GO, Ansible, or Terraform.
• 2+ years of experience with automated testing (unit, integration, end‑to‑end).

• Bachelor’s…