Senior Staff Network Engineer – Network Services  (Remote)

Senior Staff Network Engineer – Network Services  

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 Senior Staff Engineer works with our Staff and Sr. Engineers to innovate and build new systems and enhance existing systems and 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 knowledge supporting large scale and complex networks with a strong understanding of networking protocols, technologies, and standards.  

Position Responsibilities   

​​As a Senior 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 

• Design, deploy, and support SD-WAN solution, ensuring optimal performance, security, and reliability 

• Implement and maintain wired and wireless security measures 

• Collaborate with the cross-functional teams to identify and implement innovative network technologies and solutions that drive operational efficiency and business value 

• Evaluate emerging technologies and industry trends to recommend strategic investments and enhancements to network infrastructure 

• Serve as a subject matter expert and escalation point for complex network issues, providing guidance and expertise to resolve critical incidents and outages 

• Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams 

• Determine and support resource requirements, evaluate operational processes, measure outcomes to ensure desired results, demonstrate adaptability, and sponsor continuous learning 

• Configure and maintain SD-WAN edge devices, gateways, and controllers to support dynamic traffic routing, QoS, and security policies 

• Collaborate with stakeholders and team members to develop customized SD-WAN designs and configurations 

• 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 

• Influence and educate executives  

• Participate in on-call rotation for after-hours support …