Staff Engineer - PKI

Position Summary

GEICO is seeking an experienced Staff 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 Engineers, Sr. Staff Engineers, 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 software engineering, cryptography, and open‑source IaaS platform domain.

• Focus on multiple areas and provide technical and thought leadership to the enterprise
• Collaborate with product managers, team members, customers, and other engineering teams to solve our toughest problems
• Develop and execute technical software development strategy for the IaaS Engineering domain, while optimizing for performance and efficiency
• Own accountability for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions
• 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
• Analyze cost and forecast, incorporating them into business plans
• Determine and support resource requirements, evaluate operational processes, measure outcomes to ensure desired results, demonstrate adaptability and sponsor continuous learning
• Take on‑call and operation support

• Strong knowledge of PKI and Certificate Management
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft ADCS (Active Directory Certificate Services) including Certificate Template management, Enrollment and Issuance Criteria, Certificate Authority Governance and Operations
• Strong foundations in software engineering
• Deep hands‑on experience in complex system design and data pipeline and architectures, scale and performance, tuning, with good knowledge on Docker and Kubernetes
• Professional experience in software development using at least one modern programming language, including Go, Python, Java, or Rust
• Hands‑on experience with public and/or private cloud environments (Open Shift, Kubernetes, Azure, AWS, GCP, etc.)
• Experience and technical knowledge of security engineering, system and network security, authentication and security protocols and cryptography
• Experience in CI/CD pipeline and related open‑source tools like GIT, Jenkins, Circle
  
  CI, Sonar Qube and knowledge in Terraform will be a big plus
• Demonstrated ability to design and implement resilient, scalable, and efficient solutions
• Strong problem‑solving abilities and a proactive approach to identifying and mitigating risks
• Excellent communication skills, able to communicate complex technical concepts to technical and non‑technical stakeholders
• Knowledge of open‑source monitoring software like Grafana and Prometheus
• One or more of the following certifications are highly desired:
  Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)

• 6+ years of professional IaaS experience
• 4+ years of experience in open‑source frameworks
• 3+ years of experience with architecture and design
• 3+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience #LI-RP2

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GEICO will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.

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