Job Abstract

GEICO’s Cybersecurity organization has an exciting opportunity for an accomplished Cybersecurity Software Development Engineer. This individual will play a key role within GEICO’s Cybersecurity Software Engineering team, with a focus on building, software development.

Position Description:

As a Senior Cybersecurity Software Engineer, you will work with current engineers to innovate and build new systems, while also looking to improve, and enhance existing systems. This role will also help identify new opportunities to solve and prevent critical problems. As a Senior Engineer, you are expected to lead 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 with Open-Source Solutions.

Qualifications:

• Collaborate with managers, team members, and other engineering teams to solve our toughest security and automation problems.

• Accountable for the quality, usability & performance of the solutions

• Deep hands-on experience in complex system design and data pipeline and architectures, scale, performance, and tuning.

• Experience with at least two programming languages, such as Java, Go, Python, C++, etc.

• Experience with at least one scripting language, such as Bash, Powershell, Python.

• Understand open-source security products similar to Security Onion, Snort, Osquery, IDS/IPS, OpenVAS, Defect Dojo, Zabbbix, Grafana, CloudSploit, Suricata etc.

• Be a role model and mentor, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community.

• 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.

• Experience in CI/CD pipeline and related open-source tools like GIT/Jenkins/CircleCI/SonarQube. Knowledge in Terraform/Ansible will be big plus.

• Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment.

• Take ownership of delivering solutions end-to-end, including requirements gathering, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and iterative improvement.

• Innovative, creative, and extremely responsive, with a strong sense of urgency.

• Take leadership with knowledge sharing and assist other engineers in understanding technical and business topics.

• Stay up to date on the latest Cybersecurity trends, technologies, and best practices.

Experience:

• 5+ years of professional software development experience

• 4+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service

• 4+ years of experience in security engineering and technology

• 4+ years of experience with architecture and design

• 2+ years of experience in open-source frameworks

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or equivalent education or work experience

Benefits:

As an Associate, you’ll enjoy our Total Rewards Program* to help secure your financial future and preserve your health and well-being, including:

• Premier Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance with no waiting period**
• Paid Vacation, Sick and Parental Leave
• 401(k) Plan
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Paid Training and Licensures

*Benefits may be different by location.  Benefit eligibility requirements vary and may include length of service.

**Coverage begins on the date of hire. Must enroll in New Hire Benefits within 30 days of the date of hire for coverage to take effect.

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.

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.