Network Engineer

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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 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 routers, switches, firewalls, wireless networks, VPN, and SD‑WAN.
• Implement network policies and security measures to protect against cyber threats and ensure compliance with industry standards.
• Design, deploy, and support SD‑WAN solutions, ensuring optimal performance, security, and reliability.
• Implement and maintain wired and wireless security measures.
• Configure and optimize wireless coverage, signal strength and interference levels.
• Configure and maintain SD‑WAN edge devices, gateways, and controllers to support dynamic traffic routing, QoS, and security policies.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and team members to develop customized SD‑WAN, Wireless and Zero Trust designs and configurations.
• Monitor network performance and proactively identify and resolve issues to minimize downtime 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.
• 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.

• Experience in configuring and troubleshooting SD‑WAN solutions.
• Strong understanding of WAN technologies, including MPLS, VPN, Meraki, and internet circuits.
• Knowledge of network security principles and best practices, including firewalls, VPN, and intrusion detection/prevention systems.
• Expertise in configuring and troubleshooting VPN technologies.
• Strong understanding of wireless protocols and standards.
• Expertise in network routing protocols, such as BGP and OSPF.
• Experience with SD‑WAN.
• Strong experience with Core, Distribution, Access, VPN, Firewalls and Wireless.
• Programming experience with at least one programming language such as GO, Java, C++, Python or C# including object‑oriented design.
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