Senior Manager, Cyber Defense Engineering

GEICO is seeking an experienced Senior Manager with a passion for building systems and applications that support GEICO’s Cyber Fusion Center. You will build and manage a team of engineers with a deep focus on delivering products to support cybersecurity event and alert management, incident response, forensics, threat intelligence, and incident management, and help drive the transformation of GEICO’s cybersecurity program.  

Position Description:

​Our Senior Manager will be an engineering leader who works with engineering staff and cybersecurity professionals to innovate and build new engineering solutions, improve and enhance existing solutions, and leverage stakeholder engineering solutions to solve critical operational problems. This Senior Manager will lead strategy and execution of a technical roadmap that will deliver cybersecurity products that transform or unlock new cybersecurity capabilities for GEICO. The ideal candidate is a leader with has technical expertise in leading effective engineering teams to build reliable, high-performance solutions built with a mix of open source and proprietary software. They will work closely with other Cyber Fusion Center leaders to deliver on our vision for a unified, common operating picture that merges threat intelligence, security telemetry, behavioral analytics, and other signals into clear, actionable intelligence and business insights that drive timely and effective response, blocking threat vectors before harm can occur, and ensuring timely mitigation and recovery when it does occur. 

Position Responsibilities  

​​As a Senior Manager, you will:  

• Apply your technical expertise to lead your team in building and maintaining information systems used by the Cyber Fusion Center and its partners. 

• ​​Identify and address issues where technical or analytical skill gaps put future team deliverables at risk. 

• Collaborate with Cyber Fusion Center partner teams to understand challenges of operations, performance, and resiliency; formulating strategies to address issues in a sustainable way. 

• Work with your Director to address project dependencies, negotiate and estimate incremental delivery dates for milestones with the stakeholder community, and deliver projects on time.  

• ​Identify and raise appropriate project risks and present detailed alternatives as necessary and appropriate. 

• ​Report on and drive your team’s progress for project and other key metrics, and present detailed and implementable ideas for areas to improve project delivery. 

• ​Facilitate an inclusive and mutually supportive team culture that encourages team members to share knowledge, perspectives, and learn new technologies. 

• Support, assess, and grow the performance of your team members; fostering relationships within your team to create a culture of trust that positively motivates them to achieve more for themselves, GEICO, and our customers. 

• Motivate and coach others – especially your team and peers – to be receptive to feedback that encourages them to personally and professionally grow from their experiences (i.e. “growth mindset”). 

• Be a visible and inclusive thought leader in cybersecurity engineering and DevSecOps principles. 

Qualifications  

• ​​8+ years of experience in leadership positions. 

• 5+ years’ experience supervising personnel in software engineering teams. 

• 5+ years’ experience and demonstrated proficiency in scripting and programming languages such as Python, Go(lang), Java, C++, JavaScript, .NET, Ruby or Rust, and demonstrated fluency with JSON, and RESTful Web Services. 

• 4+ years of experience with one or more cloud services: AWS, GCP, Azure, or another private or public cloud service. 

• Solid foundation in algorithms, data structures, and core computer science concepts. 

• Demonstrated applied knowledge of application development life cycle methodologies such as agile software development, rapid prototyping, incremental, synchronize and stabilize, and DevSecOps. 

• Demonstrated working knowledge of object-oriented development, Gang of Four (GOF) Design Patterns, Microservices, Dependency Injection with IOC containers, and both frontend and backend unit testing. 

• Experience in software engineering management tools, such as Azure DevOps and Portfolio. 

• Demonstrated understanding of threats, threat modeling, and the applicability to information systems. 

• Demonstrated experience in building on top of open-source software, and demonstrated understanding of the risks and benefits from using open source. 

• Demonstrated ability to work under pressure and make decisions in challenging situations, along with critical thinking, judgement, and problem-solving skills. 

• Demonstrated high level written and oral communication skills.