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
We are seeking an experienced engineering manager for our growing team with domain expertise in cloud-native architecture and deep networking fundamentals. GEICO’s Hybrid Cloud Fabric team is our transformation vanguard, dedicated to securing and connecting GEICO’s public and private cloud infrastructure in a cloud-native zero trust model. We leverage service mesh, container networking technologies like Cilium, eBPF, and SPIFFE/SPIRE.
Why this role matters
Strong cryptographic workload identity using SPIRE/SPIFFE, together with Istio/Envoy, is the keystone of our zero-trust future. You will enable our workloads to cross provider and regional boundaries with ease and grace.
Who you are
You understand leadership to be an active verb, a living, participatory practice, not a title.
You recognize uncertainty as an invitation to participate and influence outcomes.
You push the boundaries of what's possible with cutting-edge technologies.
You mentor and guide other engineers, fostering a culture of learning and collaboration.
You occasionally write code and submit PRs because it was your first love.
You know how to use kubectl, the difference between a deployment and a pod, and the relationship between a Service and an Endpoint/EndpointSlice.
You support the open-source community and enjoy sharing your expertise.
What You’ll do
Understand our vision; make it so, in the way and style that is uniquely you.
Manage, mentor, and expand a team of Staff, Senior and Junior engineers, helping them develop their competencies in networking and cloud-native architecture.
Act as a force multiplier, leading the team by “chopping wood and carrying water”, handling administrative and managerial duties so that our technical leadership is enabled to execute quickly.
Provide code reviews and tactical technical guidance for Junior, Sr and Staff engineers
Lead with humility and eagerness to learn from our technical leadership – our tech stack is complex and familiarity with every facet is not required.
Set goals for the team and individual team members, holding them accountable for delivery and coaching them on incremental progress towards long-term goals.
Build strong relationships with stakeholders across GEICO, including partner teams such as Platform Engineering, Network Engineering, and Security, and customer teams across the rest of GEICO tech.
Minimum Qualifications
5+ years of engineering management experience in the networking or security domains
5+ years as an individual contributor in the networking or security domains.
Competency in Go, C++ or Rust programming.
Experience with the OSI networking model, TCP/IP networking, and categorical knowledge of Layer 4 – Layer 7 networking.
Familiarity with Kubernetes internals; experience running and operating software on Kubernetes.
Great communication, interpersonal, and conflict resolution skills
Strong attention to detail and excellent analytical capabilities
Preferred Qualifications
Hands-on experience with Istio, Envoy, Cilium, and SPIRE/SPIFFE, or have previously rolled out zero-trust networking or service mesh in an enterprise environment.
Deep exposure to zero-trust patterns, workload identity, and compliance in regulated environments.
Experience leading multiple teams; owning cross-org programs.
Demonstrated success in platform product thinking (clear interfaces, paved-road adoption).
Experience using, contributing to, and helping others contribute to open-source technology.
Experience designing and operating large-scale traffic systems.
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Annual Salary
$140,000.00 - $300,000.00The 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.
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