Senior Manager, Staff - Network Engineering (REMOTE)

$140,000 - $300,000/Yr

Geico - Boulder, CO

Full-time - Senior

Remote - Boulder, CO

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About the position

The Senior Manager, Staff - Network Engineering is an engineering leadership role focused on innovating and building new engineering solutions while enhancing existing ones. This position is responsible for leading a team of solutions engineers in a large-scale, mission-critical environment, developing strategies to improve product delivery speed, and managing the technical roadmap for the Network Services team. The ideal candidate will possess deep technical expertise in large-scale network management and will be instrumental in solving operational challenges through effective engineering solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of solutions engineers in a 24x7 large scale, mission critical environment.
• Work with senior leadership to address project dependencies and negotiate delivery dates for milestones.
• Own the end-to-end delivery of team strategy, platforms, and services.
• Identify and raise project risks, presenting detailed and implementable solutions.
• Develop, maintain, and track service performance metrics for effectiveness and quality.
• Monitor team progress on projects and key metrics, presenting ideas for improvement.
• Understand the impact of requirements and design choices across multiple systems.
• Initiate and support performance evaluations of team members.
• Cultivate a culture that motivates team members to achieve higher levels of performance.
• Identify technical skill gaps and create remediation plans.
• Build and maintain relationships with team members to foster trust.
• Develop the team budget and report on results achieved.

Requirements

• 6+ years of network infrastructure engineering and operations experience.
• 6+ years of coding experience is desired.
• 5+ years of experience in a large-scale, mission-critical environment.
• 5+ years of significant experience building scalable, fault-tolerant, and robust products and platforms.
• 5+ years of hands-on work experience supervising personnel in a technical environment.
• 3+ years scripting/coding experience in languages such as Bash, Python, GO, Ansible, or Terraform.
• 2+ years of experience with automated testing including Unit, Integration, and End-to-End functional testing is desired.
• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology or related field, or equivalent experience.

Nice-to-haves

• Knowledge of secure network designs and compliance requirements.
• Experience with network performance, capacity, configuration, and fault management processes and tools.
• Knowledge of cloud computing technologies and concepts (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, etc.).
• Understanding of CI/CD toolchain products like Jira, Git, Artifactory, Jenkins, and IaC tools like Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, and Chef.
• Experience with Python, JSON, XML, or RESTful services and open-source software.

Benefits

• Premier Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance with no waiting period
• Paid Vacation, Sick and Parental Leave
• 401(k) Plan
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Paid Training and Licensures