Geico Insurance-posted 3 months ago
$115,000 - $260,000/Yr
Full-time • Senior
Remote • Austin, TX
5,001-10,000 employees
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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's Cybersecurity organization has an exciting opportunity for an accomplished Senior Staff Engineer - Cybersecurity Data Protection Engineering. This individual will play a key role within GEICO's Cybersecurity Data Security, Protection, and Privacy team, with a focus on data protection management.

  • Develop and Implement data protection strategies and initiatives, including classification and handling, data access controls, inventory, encryption, and retention.
  • Work closely with other stakeholders to enforce data protection related policy and respond to regulatory requirements.
  • Develop and maintain data security policies, procedures, standards, and ensure that they are followed by the entire organization.
  • Create and maintain data inventories and data flows, and manage data sharing controls.
  • Drive the design and implementation of data access controls, ensuring only authorized access to sensitive data.
  • Co-develop and implement data retention policy and procedures, ensure compliance with internal policy and external regulations.
  • Enforce data encryption standards and strategies to secure data at rest and in transit.
  • Lead incident response efforts related to data breach and work with stakeholders to mitigate impact.
  • Lead and conduct regular data risk assessments to identify potential vulnerabilities and threats to the organization's data and information systems.
  • Stay abreast of new developments in the field of cybersecurity and ensure that the organization's risk assessment and data security processes are aligned with industry standards and best practices.
  • Act as an expert and mentor for other data protection engineers in the organization, providing guidance and support on data protection methodologies, techniques, and best practices.
  • Manage and supervise the work of other data protection engineers, including reviewing and approving their work when needed.
  • Represent the organization in external meetings and interactions with clients, stakeholders, and other industry experts.
  • Proven experience with data discovery, classification, handling, access, inventory, and retention.
  • Proven experience with data protection technologies, such as encryption, tokenization and data loss prevention tools.
  • Familiar with programming languages such as Python, Java, or .NET.
  • Experience with designing and implementing data security solutions for enterprise environments.
  • Experience in managing and supervising other Data Protection Engineers.
  • Experience in developing and managing data protection programs focused on data discovery, data inventory, data risk assessments, and encryption for both structured and unstructured data.
  • Strong knowledge of cybersecurity laws, regulations, and best practices.
  • Knowledge of data security frameworks, standards, and protocols.
  • Strong understanding of data privacy laws and regulations (i.e. NYDFS, PCI, etc.).
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills to effectively communicate with management and other stakeholders.
  • Ability to excel in fast-paced, startup-like environment.
  • One or more of the following cybersecurity certifications are highly desired: Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC).
  • 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.
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