Senior Network Engineer

GEICO • Boulder, CO

16h • $100,000 - $215,000

About The Position

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. Senior Engineer - Network Services Position Summary 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. Position Description Our Senior Engineer is a key member of the engineering staff working across the organization to support efforts to proactively ensure the highest level of systems and infrastructure availability, stability, scalability, and performance . 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 deep technical expertise in designing, implementing, and maintaining overall network infrastructure.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience managing and troubleshooting DNS, DHCP, IPAM, and NTP in a large enterprise environment with DDI platforms like Infoblox, BlueCat, MS DNS, or similar
• Experience in supporting firewalls such as Palo Alto Networks
• Experience supporting Web Security Gateways (Zscaler, CISCO WSA), Network Access Control systems (ISE), Web Application Firewall (WAF).
• Understanding the current regulatory environment and related implications to security and audit compliance (SOX, PCI, etc.)
• Knowledge of scripting languages like Python, Bash, or PowerShell
• Ability to create network topologies maps; document processes and standards
• Excellent problem solving, analytical, organizational, and project management skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including communicating technical issues to non-technical audiences
• Operate in a highly dynamic and high-pressure environment while ensuring a high level of operational effectiveness
• Possess a strong sense of ownership, responsibility, motivation, and continuous improvement
• Passionate about technology, systems engineering, and delivering high quality solutions
• Knowledge of common network architectures and communications protocols is desired
• Understanding of network security principles and best practices is desired
• Familiarity with network infrastructure including switches, routers, and firewalls is desired
• Ability to perform advanced packet/protocol analysis throughout the seven-layer OSI reference model is desired
• Experience with network performance, capacity, configuration, and fault management is desired
• Experience in public cloud infrastructure is desired
• 4+ years of professional software development experience in a large-scale network environment
• 3+ years of experience with architecture and design
• 3+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service
• 2+ years of experience in open-source frameworks

Nice To Haves

• The following active certification is highly desired: Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) or willingness to pursue within 12 months

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Architect, design, and maintain DNS, DHCP, NTP and IP Address Management frameworks and standards for operational efficiency.
• Publish Network related documentation sets for runbooks, as-built, and design reference
• Conduct risk and impact assessments; skills for troubleshooting and change management
• Support, operate, and maintain large scale, critical Network environment, platforms, and services
• Triage, analyze, and perform root cause analysis for network-related issues
• Create new and re-engineer existing processes, workflows, scripts, and automation to improve quality and efficiency
• Provide 24x7 after hours on-call support and support for off-hour implementations
• Leverage enterprise network management platforms and practices to run large-scale deployments efficiently and effectively

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees