Identity Security Distinguished Engineer

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CybersecurityIdentity Security Engineer

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Key Responsibilities

Great Company: Protecting customers through life’s twists and turns with innovation and integrity. Great Careers: Personalized development programs, mentorship, and certification assistance.

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CybersecurityIdentity Security Engineer

What We Offer

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✓Influence and educate staff at all levels to bring a security minded approach to difficult challenges balancing usability and security.

✓Provide technical guidance and mentorship to the team, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvements.

✓Collaborate with cross-functional leaders, team members, IAM engineering, and peer security teams to solve complex problems with minimal business impact.

✓Proactively identify opportunities to enhance security measures, streamline processes, and optimize tooling to fortify our environment against emerging threats.

✓Deliver automation initiatives, conduct advanced research, and develop proofs of concept to enhance our security capabilities and improve overall efficiency.

✓Help develop and implement engineered automation to ensure compliance with industry regulations and frameworks which demonstrates without manual efforts.

✓Work with our business partners to help derive and validate mitigation techniques for identified threats and/or non-compliance.

✓Define roadmaps for securing various identities with purposeful and functional security without impacting or unnecessary overhead.

✓Automated adversarial testing of our identity systems to ensure detection mechanisms function appropriately and efficiently.

✓Provide motivating demonstrations and communications to show the value of our security measures to the business, highlighting the low impact on systems, improved operability and resiliency.

Requirements

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Extensive experience in identity products and protocols products Active Directory, Kerberos, LDAP, SAML, SCIM, OAuth, and OIDC.
Deep skills in privileged access management tools and services (build/buy).
Extensive experience in offensive and defensive security roles, with a strong hacker mindset.
Experience building and designing (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of security systems with micro-services and extensible REST APIs.
Experience communicating and presentation to senior and junior staff with the ability to influence stakeholders.
Experience in a multi-platform environment with Linux, Mac, Windows.
Experience with multiple IaaS platforms from top tier providers.
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 ITDR, EPM, MITRE, CIS and NIST.
Demonstrated fluency and specialization with at least one modern language such as Python or Go.
In depth expertise in cryptographic protocols, digital certificates, and encryption standards such as X.509, Transport Layer Security (TLS), and Advanced Encryption Standard (AES).
Experience working with auditors and demonstrating security controls.

8+ years in a dedicated security role, preferably in the tech industry
5+ years of experience with security, identity, architecture, and design
5+ years of experience with open-source frameworks is desired.
3+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or other cloud providers
3+ years in a senior security role, preferably architecture, influencing company direction on security strategy.
Education with practical examples in penetration testing, writing test scripts and determining countermeasures.
Experience applying security controls to exceed third party attestation requirements (PCI, SOC, …).
Desired certifications: CISSP, CISA, CISM, CCSK, CCSP, CEH, C|CISO and related GIAC.

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cyber Security, or equivalent education with work experience
Third party certifications on penetration testing/ethical hacking, exploit detection and evasion techniques, and related.

Annual Salary

$140,000.00 - $300,000.00

The 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.

GEICO will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.

The GEICO Pledge:

Great Company: Protecting customers through life’s twists and turns with innovation and integrity.

Great Careers: Personalized development programs, mentorship, and certification assistance.

Great Culture: Inclusive and collaborative culture rooted in shared success.

Great Rewards: Competitive pay, benefits, and flexibility to support your well-being and future.

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.