Senior Staff Operations Engineer - Product Security (REMOTE)

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GEICO is seeking an experienced Sr. Staff Engineer, Operations Engineer with a passion for managing complex programs across multiple departments and team to build Product Security operational excellence from the ground up. You will help drive our business transformation as we transition from a traditional IT model to a tech organization with engineering excellence as its mission.

The Sr. Staff Engineer, Operations is a key member of the Product Security leadership team working across the organization to ensure successful delivery of effective security controls and prioritization of initiatives and issue management. In this role you will own a portfolio of initiatives such as compliance, engineering and operational excellence and vendor engagement. This is beyond technical project management and requires a background in building teams, delivering solutions and proving success with KPIs and visible metrics. The ideal candidate will have excellent communication skills, real world examples in engaging the right technical partners and leadership to drive towards solutions and get people working together.

​​​As a Sr Staff Engineer, you will lead efforts to identify, plan, and deliver program security outcomes by independently engaging a broad set of internal and external stakeholders. This also includes the following:

• Monitor and track signals of security gaps, initiative delays, compliance risks due to system issues, and drive resolution.

• Create visuals on current performance and risk indicators related to product security initiatives and operations.

• Help to develop standards on reporting product security tool effectiveness, maturity, resilience and other factors in determining risks as they come up.

• Help drive automation of routine tasks to drive growth in security protection and detection technologies.

• Provide expert guidance, demonstrations and lead discussions on security best practices to stakeholders and leadership.

• Works in lockstep with our CSIRT, GRC, Platform Security, Development/Product organizations and Technology partner teams to ensure protection coverages, proper detection event notifications, documentation and standards we can all use.

• Organize, store and manage operational best practices documentation for security solutions to protect our business products including applications, services, code and associated repositories, infrastructure as code (IaC), and code related to deployment pipelines.

• Partner with the project sponsors, delivery teams, and stakeholders to deliver quality solutions on time and within budget by coordinating project activities across multiple systems, departments, and teams.

• Create, maintain, and actively manage a detailed project schedule, change control process, and documentation.

• Identify and raise appropriate security risks, in addition to presenting detailed and implementable solutions or alternatives, and drive those campaigns to resolution.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated understanding of application security tooling and testing including, SAST, DAST, SCA, etc. as well as cross-functional awareness of security operations including SOC, Incident Response, Privacy, Legal, Vulnerability Management, and Data Protection. 

• Familiar with OWASP projects and implementation within the product security organization such as, Web Top Ten, API Top Ten, Mobile Top Ten and ASVS. 

• Knowledge of data access languages such as SQL and GraphQL and the ability to construct queries against data sources.

• Extensive experience in engineering and solution delivery in a dynamic service provider environment.

• Strong knowledge of project management methodologies and best practices.

• Proven track record of successfully managing large/complex projects across cross-functional teams, building processes and coordinating delivery 

• Working knowledge of security services and their impact on production systems including runtime protection services, detective and protective agents and/or daemon sets, vulnerability and application scanning, etc.