Senior Staff Engineer: Cybersecurity & DevSecOps Lead

Government Employees Insurance Company; Bethesda (MD); On-site; USD 100,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

GEICO in Bethesda, MD seeks a Senior Staff Engineer to lead cybersecurity program strategy and scalable, secure systems in a hybrid cloud environment. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to design secure architectures, implement CI/CD practices, and advance vulnerability management initiatives.

You’ll guide development across AWS/Azure/Open‑source stacks, mentor engineers, and drive engineering excellence while delivering high-impact security solutions in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Tech-lead with full-stack software development and DevSecOps experience in a hybrid environment (AWS, Azure, on-prem).
• Development and leadership in Cybersecurity domain, preferably in Vulnerability Management Engineering.
• Specialization with at least one modern language such as Java, Go, Python or C#, and a scripting language.
• Extensive knowledge and experience of building data intensive large-scale distributed systems on cloud.
• Experience building the architecture and design of new and current systems (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling).
• Fluency in DevOps concepts and best practices in CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as a code.
• Experience with application performance monitoring tools and performance assessments.
• Ability to design, implement, deploy, and operate systems to solve complex security problems in a fast-paced, startup-like environment.
• Experience 8+ years of non-internship professional software engineering experience of building large-scale distributed systems.
• 4+ years of experience with architecture and design in a tech lead role.
• 4+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or other cloud providers.
• 3+ years of experience in open-source frameworks.
• Foundational knowledge of security best practices for system design and development.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for cybersecurity program strategy, software development, integration decisions, analyzing design constraints and trade-offs in system and security design.
• Lead design, development, and delivery of security solutions to drive Vulnerability Management initiatives.
• Deliver automation initiatives, conduct advanced research, and develop proofs of concept to enhance our security capabilities and improve overall efficiency
• Achieve security business outcomes through force multiplication
• Develop, integrate, and maintain multilevel cybersecurity designs, architectures, policies, and procedures
• Provide secure design guidance and recommendations to developers, infrastructure, and product engineers
• Influence and educate partner teams to bring an engineering first approach to develop sustainable security systems.
• Mentor peers and team members in security technologies, enterprise solution design, deployment, and effective customer interaction
• 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

Full-stack development

DevSecOps

Cybersecurity

AWS

Azure

Java

Python

Go

C#

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Information Systems

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

GEICO in Bethesda, MD seeks a Senior Staff Engineer to lead cybersecurity program strategy and scalable, secure systems in a hybrid cloud environment. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to design secure architectures, implement CI/CD practices, and advance vulnerability management initiatives.

You’ll guide development across AWS/Azure/Open‑source stacks, mentor engineers, and drive engineering excellence while delivering high-impact security solutions in a fast-paced environment.