Network Engineer II

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 Engineer II is a key member of the engineering staff working across the organization to collaboratively design creative solutions to complex problems. Our team thrives and succeeds in delivering high-quality technology products and services in a hyper-growth environment where priorities shift quickly. The ideal candidate has experience with the Identity and Access control policy platform and can plan, prioritize, execute, and manage large projects to deliver enterprise network security services.

Position Responsibilities:

• Ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information and information systems
• Design, test, and implement new or re-engineered network services, security applications, and platform solutions
• Provide daily support and perform maintenance tasks for security infrastructure components including, but not limited to, Web Security Gateways (Zscaler, CISCO WSA), Network Access Control systems (ISE), Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems (IDS/IPS), Web Application Firewall (WAF), Firewall policy and rules implementation, etc.
• Collaborate with members of other infrastructure and applications teams to implement, maintain, and troubleshoot GEICO's security infrastructure systems
• Triage, analyze, and perform root cause analysis for security and network-related issues
• Provide 24x7 after hours on-call support and support for off-hour implementations as needed
• Publish documentation for runbooks, as-builts, and design references
• Understand and promote network standards, reference architectures, and frameworks

Qualifications:

• Experience with utilizing open-source frameworks in an enterprise
• Understanding the current regulatory environment and related implications to security and audit compliance (SOX, PCI, etc.)
• Work independently and as part of a larger group comprised of different technical and business areas
• Network automation experience with Python, Ansible or Teraform
• Proficiency with Windows and Linux operating systems
• Understanding networking and network components, including subnets, DMZs, routers, switches, and firewalls
• Awareness of the general cyber security threat landscape, including common vulnerabilities, exploits, social engineering, and malware
• Experience in end-to-end problem determination and troubleshooting system issues, including root cause analysis
• Familiarity with VB script, PowerShell, or other scripting languages
• Knowledge of common application architectures and communications protocols is desired
• Knowledge of cloud-based proxy and firewall (Zscaler and Imperva is preferred)
• Experience with platform performance, capacity, configuration, and fault management is desired
• Experience in public Cloud infrastructure with preference to Microsoft Azure is desired
• Strong problem-solving ability
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment
• One or more of the following active certifications are highly desired:
  • Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) or willingness to complete within 6-8 months
  • Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP Security) or willingness to complete within 18 months
• CompTIA Security+ or willingness to complete within 6 months

Experience:

• 2+ years of professional software development experience in a large-scale network environment
• 2+ years of experience with architecture and design
• 2+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service
• 2+ years of experience in open-source frameworks

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience

Annual Salary: $75,000.00 - $160,000.00

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.

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