Manager, Staff Engineering - Cryptography

Manager, Staff Engineering - Cryptography Position Summary

GEICO is seeking an experienced Manager of Engineering with a passion for building high performance, low-latency platforms, and applications. You will build and manage a team of engineers with a deep focus on delivering enterprise-wide products to operate in a highly performant and efficient way. You will help drive our insurance business transformation as we redefine experiences for our customers.

The Engineering Manager is a leader who works with the engineering staff to innovate and build new engineering solutions, improve and enhance existing solutions as well as leverage engineering solutions to solve critical operational problems. A manager will lead the strategy and execution of a technical roadmap that will increase the speed of delivering products and unlock new engineering capabilities. The ideal candidate has deep technical expertise in areas such as secrets management, certificates management & PKI, cryptography, and data protection.

• Work with your senior leadership to address project dependencies, negotiate and estimate incremental delivery dates for milestones with the stakeholder community, and deliver projects on time
• Management responsibility for a team of cryptography (secrets/certificates/PKI) and data protection engineers
• Ownership of the end-to-end delivery of team strategy and platforms.
• Identify and raise appropriate project risks, in addition to presenting detailed and implementable solutions or alternatives
• Understand how requirements and design choices may impact systems across multiple areas
• Report on your team’s progress for project and other key metrics, in addition to presenting detailed and implementable ideas for areas to further improve or influence product or project delivery
• Initiate and support performance evaluation of team members
• Cultivate a culture that motivates all levels of performers to higher levels of achievement
• Build and maintain relationships with your team members to support an environment of trust
• Significantly contribute to the team planning process to include surfacing associate level proposals

• Software and system design knowledge and experience
• Knowledge of cloud computing technologies and concepts (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, etc.)
• Management experience in
  • Operations / On-Prem. Certificate Authority CA/PKI Infrastructure
  • Certificate Mgmt. System/ Card management System (Venafi, Intercede, Entrust, CSS, etc.)
  • HSM management (Safe Net, Thales, etc.)
• 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 Cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure etc.) platform knowledge
• Highly familiar with modern network, compute, storage, database, virtualization, cloud, and security technologies
• Fluency with API development and Event Driven Architectures
• Fluency with at least one modern language such as Python, Java, Go and experience with open-source software is a big plus
• Experience in application monitoring tools and performance assessments
• Constructing, interpreting, and applying metrics to your work and decision making, able to use those metrics to identify correlation between drivers and results, and using that information to drive prioritization and action
• Relevant certifications (e.g., CISSP, CISM, CISA) are highly desirable.

• 6+ years coding experience
• 5+ years of development in a large-scale, mission-critical environment
• 5+ years of hands-on work experience supervising personnel in a technical environment
• 2+ years' experience with automated testing including Unit, Integration, and End-to-End functional testing

Bachelor’s degree in information technology or related field, or equivalent experience

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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…