Identity Security Engineering Leader

GEICO; Iowa (LA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

GEICO is seeking an Identity Security Distinguished Engineer to lead strategic and technical direction for IAM across user, development and production domains. You will guide a team of engineers, delivering secure IAM configurations, threat detection, and automated proof of controls while modernizing identity strategy.

This role requires deep expertise in identity protocols, cloud security, and cryptography, with a hacker mindset and strong collaboration across teams.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Offensive security mindset

Security architecture

Multi-platform experience

Threat detection

Stakeholder influence

Security controls engineering

Automated testing mindset

Security demonstrations

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Cyber Security

Penetration testing certifications

Tools

Identity protocols

Privileged Access

Programming: Python/Go

Cryptography TLS/X.509

Cloud providers AWS/GCP/Azure

REST APIs architecture

Security automation

Auditing & compliance

Job description

GEICO is seeking an Identity Security Distinguished Engineer to lead strategic and technical direction for IAM across user, development and production domains. You will guide a team of engineers, delivering secure IAM configurations, threat detection, and automated proof of controls while modernizing identity strategy.

This role requires deep expertise in identity protocols, cloud security, and cryptography, with a hacker mindset and strong collaboration across teams.