<p><b>At GEICO, we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless possibilities. </b></p><p><b>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. </b></p><p></p><p><b>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.</b></p><p></p><p></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><b>Position Summary</b><br />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.</div><div></div><div><b>Position Description</b><br />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.</div><div></div><div><b>Position Responsibilities</b><br />As a Staff Engineer, you will:</div><ul><li>Lead the design, architecture, and implementation of complex network solutions to meet business requirements and objectives</li><li>Maintain network standards, policies, and best practices to ensure consistency, reliability, and security across the organization</li><li>Work closely with the Security team to ensure Security best practices are enforced in an effective and scalable manner</li><li>Research, design, test, and implement new or re-engineered link to enterprise cloud network services and solutions with at least one major cloud provider (i.e., AWS, Azure, Google)</li><li>Publish network and security related documentation for SOP, runbooks, as-built, and design reference</li><li>Create new and re-engineer existing processes, workflows, scripts, and automation to improve quality and efficiency</li><li>Leverage enterprise network management platforms and practices to run large-scale deployments efficiently and effectively</li><li>Understand and promote network standards, reference architectures, and frameworks; develop and maintain strategic roadmaps for network platforms and services</li><li>Understand, track, and publish network cloud services performance and capacity</li><li>Implementing effective security strategies on cloud networks</li><li>Work across organization to migrate applications and services into cloud environments</li><li>Triage, analyze, and perform root cause analysis for network-related issues</li><li>Provide 7x24 on-call and after-hours implementation support</li><li>Monitor network performance and proactively identify and resolve identify and resolve issues to minimize and ensure maximum uptime</li><li>Be a role model and mentor, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community</li></ul><div><b>Qualifications</b></div><ul><li>Expert-level knowledge of networking protocols, technologies, and standards including TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, MPLS, QoS, SDN, and SD-WAN</li><li>Extensive hands-on experience with network equipment and platforms from leading vendors such as Cisco, Aruba, and Palo Alto Networks</li><li>Strong understanding of network security principles, best practices, and compliance requirements including firewalls, VPNs, IDS/IPS, and encryption</li><li>Highly proficient in architecture assessment and proposals​</li><li>In-depth understanding of Cloud Service models: PaaS, IaaS, SaaS</li><li>Ability to design, test, and integrate cloud-based network services and interconnectivity</li><li>Experience solving analytical problems with quantitative approaches</li><li>Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment</li><li>Advanced understanding of DevOps concepts, including Azure DevOps Operational framework and tools</li><li>Advanced PowerShell scripting skills</li><li>Advanced understanding of existing Operational Portals such as Azure Portal</li><li>Advance understanding of application monitoring tools and performance assessments</li><li>Experience in Datacenter structure, capabilities, and offerings, including the Azure platform and its native services</li><li>Experience in Azure Network (Subscription, Security zoning, etc.)</li><li>Experience with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code</li><li>Knowledge of common application architectures and TCP/IP communications protocols is desired</li><li>Ability to leverage scripting languages necessary for network automation such as Bash, Perl, Python, Ansible and PowerShell</li><li>Experience with network management platforms to monitor and report on performance, capacity, configuration, and faults is desired</li></ul><div><b>Experience</b></div><ul><li>6+ years of professional experience with Network Engineering or operations</li><li>4+ years of experience in open-source frameworks</li><li>3+ years of experience with architecture and design</li><li>3+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service </li></ul><div><b>Education</b></div><ul><li>Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience</li></ul></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p><br /> </p><p><u><b>Annual Salary</b></u></p>$110,000.00 - $230,000.00<p>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 candidate’s work experience, education and training, the work location as well as market and business considerations.</p><p><br /> </p>GEICO will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.<p><br /> </p><p><b>The GEICO Pledge:</b></p><p></p><p><b>Great Company:</b> At GEICO, we help our customers through life’s twists and turns. Our mission is to protect people when they need it most and we’re constantly evolving to stay ahead of their needs.</p><p>We’re an iconic brand that thrives on innovation, exceeding our customers’ expectations and enabling our collective success. From day one, you’ll take on exciting challenges that help you grow and collaborate with dynamic teams who want to make a positive impact on people’s lives.</p><p></p><p><b>Great Careers:</b> We offer a career where you can learn, grow, and thrive through personalized development programs, created with your career – and your potential – in mind.  You’ll have access to industry leading training, certification assistance, career mentorship and coaching with supportive leaders at all levels.</p><p></p><p><b>Great Culture:</b> We foster an inclusive culture of shared success, rooted in integrity, a bias for action and a winning mindset. Grounded by our core values, we have an an established culture of caring, inclusion, and belonging, that values different perspectives. Our teams are led by dynamic, multi-faceted teams led by supportive leaders, driven by performance excellence and unified under a shared purpose.</p><p>As part of our culture, we also offer employee engagement and recognition programs that reward the positive impact our work makes on the lives of our customers.</p><p></p><p><b>Great Rewards:</b> We offer compensation and benefits built to enhance your physical well-being, mental and emotional health and financial future.</p><ul><li>Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your family’s overall well-being.</li><li>Financial benefits including market-competitive compensation; a 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match; performance and recognition-based incentives; and tuition assistance.</li><li>Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance.</li><li>Supports flexibility- We provide workplace flexibility as well as our GEICO Flex program, which offers the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year.</li></ul><p></p><p>The equal employment opportunity policy of the GEICO Companies provides for a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, familial status, disability or genetic information, in compliance with applicable federal, state and local law. GEICO hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled.</p><p></p><p>GEICO reasonably accommodates qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to receive equal employment opportunity and/or perform the essential functions of the job, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship to the Company. This applies to all applicants and associates. GEICO also provides a work environment in which each associate is able to be productive and work to the best of their ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment. We expect and require the cooperation of all associates in maintaining an atmosphere free from discrimination and harassment with mutual respect by and for all associates and applicants.</p>

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