Sr. Manager, Staff Software Engineering - VM (Hybrid)

Geico Insurance • Austin, TX

75d • $150,000 - $300,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

GEICO is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager - Cybersecurity, who is a highly skilled thought leader to drive massive engineering initiatives in Cybersecurity from inception to launch. This role requires deep understanding of engineering and security best practices for leading design, architecture, and DevOps of highly scalable systems in a hybrid environment. This role will be responsible for leading a team of software, security, and system engineers to build and implement security systems for Vulnerability Management and Offensive Security to protect enterprise-wide assets through collaboration with cross-functional teams. The ideal candidate for this role is a deeply technical leader who maintains a strong connection with both customers and the underlying architecture and design of systems. This individual excels at coaching their team to develop scalable solutions while fostering collaboration across the organization by engaging with key leaders to leverage collective expertise. They demonstrate a keen ability to dive deep into complex problems to fully understand how systems operate, discerning when to make incremental improvements and when to challenge the status quo to drive impactful results. They are well-versed with Vulnerability Management Lifecycle - asset discovery, internal/external scans, contextualization and risk-based assessment, triaging of CVEs, detection authoring, security data pipeline, reporting, and remediation. This role reports to the Sr Director and is critical to our cybersecurity objectives. The position requires a strong engineering background, solid leadership skills, and a deep understanding of secure software development, development practices, and DevSecOps. The successful candidate will play a key role in maintaining a strong security posture for the company through close collaboration with infrastructure, development, product, and other organizations across GEICO to integrate security into the ecosystem from design through deployment to sustainable operations.

Requirements

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including software development lifecycle best practices.
• 5+ years of development in a large-scale, mission-critical environment.
• 5+ years of hands-on work experience supervising personnel in a technical environment.
• Experience in building highly scalable systems preferably in security domain in a hybrid cloud environment.
• Demonstrated experience with engineering excellence including secure coding practices, threat modeling, and DevSecOps.
• Excellent understanding and knowledge of application development life cycle methodologies such as agile software development, rapid prototyping, incremental value-add, synchronize, and stabilize.
• Strong leadership and team management skills.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Ability to work under pressure and make decisions in challenging situations.
• Strong problem-solving skills, ability to think critically and ethically.
• Knowledge of at least a programming and scripting language such as Python, Java, C languages, JavaScript, GoLang, Rust.
• Understanding of application security frameworks, standards, and best practices (e.g., OWASP, SANS, NIST).
• Experience with vulnerability scanning, CVE triaging, detection, risk assessment, prioritization, and remediation is a plus.
• Security-related certifications (such as CISSP, CISM, or CompTIA Security+) are a plus.

Nice To Haves

• 5+ years of hands-on experience performing penetration-testing, red teaming, and purple teaming activities.
• 4+ years of experience with Azure, AWS, GCP or other cloud providers.
• Senior role influencing company direction on security.
• Experience applying security controls to exceed third party attestation requirements (PCI, NYDFS, SOX).

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain a comprehensive Vulnerability Management engineering roadmap that aligns with industry best practices.
• Lead a team of software developers and security engineers in the execution of GEICO's security strategies and action plans.
• Collaborate with technology engineering, product management, and other stakeholders to integrate security tooling into the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
• Oversee the validation and prioritization of security vulnerabilities within services, applications and products.
• Provide expertise as required in security during the design, implementation, and the continual support of our products.
• Participate in the enhancement of security awareness and train developers and other relevant staff in secure coding practices.
• Establish metrics and regular reporting mechanisms for measuring security status and the effectiveness of the application and product security tooling.
• Respond to security incidents and provide post-mortem analysis to illuminate the root cause and prevent recurrence as necessary.
• Keep abreast of the latest security regulations, advisories, alerts, and vulnerabilities pertaining to the company and its mission.
• 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.
• Execute change management processes and best practices, adapting approach as necessary.

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: Senior
• Industry: Insurance Carriers and Related Activities
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees