Sr Staff Identity and Access Management Engineer

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.

Position Summary

GEICO is seeking an experienced Engineer with a passion for building high performance, minimal 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.
 

Position description

Our Senior Staff Engineer is a key member of the engineering staff, working across the organization to provide friction-less experience for our customers and maintain the highest standards of compliance, protection and availability. You will be part of a team that thrives and succeeds in delivering high quality technology products and services in a hyper-growth environment where priorities shift quickly. The ideal candidate has broad and deep technical knowledge of the Identity Directory Services and solutions that ensure secure authorization to GEICO’s data assets.
 

Position Responsibilities

As a Senior Staff Engineer, you will:

• Lead execution and adoption of modern authentication and authorization mechanisms (SAML, OIDC/OAUTH2) 
• Engage peers and leaders at all levels.
• 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, and demonstrate adaptability and sponsoring continuous learning 
• Own the complete project lifecycle for application integrations of both on-premises and SaaS applications with our IGA platform.

• Collaborate with application team to implement tokenization solutions that reduce sensitive data exposure, thereby enhancing data security and minimizing the risk of unauthorized access 

• Stay at the forefront of emerging identity trends, technologies, and best practices, and apply this knowledge to enhance GEICO’s data protection strategies 

• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to the team, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvements 

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including security, compliance, and application teams to ensure the seamless integration and alignment of solutions with organizational goals 

• Build resilient and scalable architecture, driving innovation and cost efficiency 
   

Qualifications 

• Experience building the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems 

• Fluency in DevOps Concepts, Cloud Architecture, and the Software Development Lifecycle 

• Experience in security protocols and products: Understanding of Active Directory, Kerberos, LDAP, SAML, OAuth, and OIDC 
• Experience with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code 
• Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, operations, real-time communication) 
• Experience with micro-services oriented architecture and extensible REST APIs 
• In depth knowledge of Datacenter structure, capabilities, and offerings, including the Azure platform, and its native services including the Azure platform and its native services 
• Fluency and specialization with at least one modern language such as Java, Go, or Python 
• In depth expertise in cryptographic protocols, digital certificates, and encryption standards such as X.509, Transport Layer Security (TLS), and Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) 
• Strong problem-solving abilities and a proactive approach to identifying and mitigating security risks and vulnerabilities 
• Excellent communication skills, able to communicate complete technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders 
   

Experience 

• 10+ years of professional experience in technology or identity engineering 

• 8+ years of experience with security, identity, architecture, and design 

• 4+ years of experience with open-source frameworks is desired 

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

• 1+ years of people management experience 

Education 

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

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Annual Salary

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.

The GEICO Pledge:

Great Company: 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.

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.

Great Careers: 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.

Great Culture: 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.

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.

Great Rewards: We offer compensation and benefits built to enhance your physical well-being, mental and emotional health and financial future.

• Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your family’s overall well-being.
• 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.
• Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance.
• 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.

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.