Staff Network Engineer

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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 Staff Engineer works with our Distinguished Engineer and Sr. Engineers to innovate and build new systems, improve, and enhance existing systems as well as identify new opportunities to apply your knowledge to solve critical problems. You will lead the strategy and execution of a technical roadmap that will increase the velocity of delivering products and unlock new engineering capabilities. The ideal candidate has deep technical expertise in designing, implementing, and maintaining overall network infrastructure.Position Responsibilities
As a Staff Engineer, you will:

• Lead the design, architecture, and implementation of complex network solutions to meet business requirements and objectives
• Maintain network standards, policies, and best practices to ensure consistency, reliability, and security across the organization
• Work closely with the Security team to ensure Security best practices are enforced in an effective and scalable manner
• Research, design, test, and implement new or re-engineered link to enterprise cloud network services and solutions with at least one major cloud provider (i.e., AWS, Azure, Google)
• Publish network and security related documentation for SOP, runbooks, as-built, and design reference
• Create new and re-engineer existing processes, workflows, scripts, and automation to improve quality and efficiency
• Leverage enterprise network management platforms and practices to run large-scale deployments efficiently and effectively
• Understand and promote network standards, reference architectures, and frameworks; develop and maintain strategic roadmaps for network platforms and services
• Understand, track, and publish network cloud services performance and capacity
• Implementing effective security strategies on cloud networks
• Work across organization to migrate applications and services into cloud environments
• Triage, analyze, and perform root cause analysis for network-related issues
• Provide 7x24 on-call and after-hours implementation support
• Monitor network performance and proactively identify and resolve identify and resolve issues to minimize and ensure maximum uptime
• Be a role model and mentor, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community

Qualifications

• Expert-level knowledge of networking protocols, technologies, and standards including TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, MPLS, QoS, SDN, and SD-WAN
• Extensive hands-on experience with network equipment and platforms from leading vendors such as Cisco, Aruba, and Palo Alto Networks
• Strong understanding of network security principles, best practices, and compliance requirements including firewalls, VPNs, IDS/IPS, and encryption
• Highly proficient in architecture assessment and proposals​
• In-depth understanding of Cloud Service models: PaaS, IaaS, SaaS
• Ability to design, test, and integrate cloud-based network services and interconnectivity
• Experience solving analytical problems with quantitative approaches
• Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment
• Advanced understanding of DevOps concepts, including Azure DevOps Operational framework and tools
• Advanced PowerShell scripting skills
• Advanced understanding of existing Operational Portals such as Azure Portal
• Advance understanding of application monitoring tools and performance assessments
• Experience in Datacenter structure, capabilities, and offerings, including the Azure platform and its native services
• Experience in Azure Network (Subscription, Security zoning, etc.)
• Experience with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code
• Knowledge of common application architectures and TCP/IP communications