Senior Staff Cloud Security Engineer

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GEICO is seeking a Senior Staff Cloud Security Engineer to provide strategic and technical direction in ensuring the security of our cloud-native infrastructure across public, private, and hybrid environments. As a key member of our Cloud Security team, you will lead the development, implementation, and oversight of comprehensive cloud security strategies, define roadmaps for cloud security enhancements, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive business outcomes while maintaining minimal impact on operations. You will leverage your expertise in cloud-native architecture to design and implement secure solutions that align with our business goals and tackle complex challenges while maintaining the delicate balance between security and usability.

As a Sr Staff Engineer, you will:

• Provide strategic and technical security direction in designing, implementing, and managing secure cloud infrastructures.

• Develop and maintain expertise in cloud-native security solutions, including container security, Kubernetes, Istio, and cloud networking and security services.

• Define and implement roadmaps for security enhancements, ensuring alignment with business objectives and minimal disruption to operations.

• Develop strong relationships with key stakeholders, including development teams, operations teams, and executive sponsors.

• Collaborate with various teams to design, deploy, troubleshoot, and enhance security measures, while balancing usability and security.

• Influence and educate staff at all levels on cloud security best practices, promoting a culture of cloud security awareness across the organization.

• Proactively identify opportunities to enhance security measures, streamline processes, and optimize tooling, leveraging an offensive security mindset.

• Support continuous improvement of our cloud security posture through innovative solutions.

• Mentor/train growing security engineers and provide technical direction and project leadership.

Qualifications:

• Deep technical expertise in public and private cloud compute infrastructure and cloud native technologies.

• Previous successful projects that iteratively transitioned legacy security models to next generation solutions.

• Deep technical knowledge of security threats, risks, and vulnerabilities within IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS environments and integrations.

• Experience in offensive and defensive security roles, with a strong hacker approach to guiding cloud security decisions.

• Experience communicating and presenting to senior and junior staff with the ability to influence stakeholders.

• Experience in a multi-platform environment with containerized or VM-based Linux and Windows.

• Experience with Container risk monitoring at both build and runtime.

• Experience with solving security control requirements with engineering approaches.

• Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment.

• Ability to design, perform experiments, and influence security detection and protection solutions.

• Strong knowledge of industry-standard security tools, frameworks, and best practices including Mitre, CIS and NIST.

• Demonstratable proficiency in common scripting languages with examples of automation at scale.

• Experience working with auditors and demonstrating security controls.

Experience:

• 8+ years in a security focused role, preferably in the tech industry

• 3+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or other cloud providers

• 3+ years in a senior role influencing company direction on security

• 3+ years of experience with top Cloud Identity providers.

• Experience applying security controls to exceed third party attestation requirements (PCI, SOC, …).

Education:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or Cybersecurity, or equivalent work experience.

• Third party certifications on end-user computing related technologies.