Senior Staff Engineer - Cybersecurity Data Protection

March 28

🦀 Maryland – Remote

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🤠 Texas – Remote

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🦀 Maryland – Remote 🤠 Texas – Remote ⚔️ Virginia – Remote

💵 $90k - $260k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👮‍♂️ Security Engineer

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GEICO

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GEICO is a well-known American auto insurance company, providing coverage to a wide range of customers. As a leading provider of car insurance, GEICO is known for its innovative marketing and customer-centric services, delivering affordable insurance options. The company utilizes a user-friendly website for managing policies and claims, applying necessary online privacy measures to protect personal data and improve user experience. While primarily focused on auto insurance, GEICO also offers other types of insurance, including homeowner and renter policies.

Auto Insurance • RV Insurance • ATV Insurance • Boat Insurance • Motorcycle Insurance

10,000+ employees

Founded 1936

💸 Finance

📋 Description

• Responsible for leading the organization's efforts to identify, assess, and evaluate potential vulnerabilities and threats to the organization's information systems and sensitive data • Conduct regular data risk assessments, recommend controls, and countermeasures to mitigate identified risks, and monitor the effectiveness of the implemented security measures • Act as an expert and mentor for other data protection engineers in the organization • Develop and implement data protection strategies and initiatives, including classification and handling, data access controls, inventory, encryption, and retention • Work closely with other stakeholders to enforce data protection related policy and respond to regulatory requirements • Develop and maintain data security policies, procedures, standards, and ensure that they are followed by the entire organization • Create and maintain data inventories and data flows, and manage data sharing controls • Enforce data encryption standards and strategies to secure data at rest and in transit • Lead incident response efforts related to data breach and work with stakeholders to mitigate impact • Stay abreast of new developments in the field of cybersecurity and ensure that the organization's risk assessment and data security processes are aligned with industry standards and best practices • Manage and supervise the work of other data protection engineers, including reviewing and approving their work when needed

🎯 Requirements

• Proven experience with data discovery, classification, handling, access, inventory, and retention • Proven experience with data protection technologies, such as encryption, tokenization and data loss prevention tools • Familiar with programming languages such as Python, Java, or .NET • Experience with designing and implementing data security solutions for enterprise environments • Experience in managing and supervising other Data Protection Engineers • Experience in developing and managing data protection programs focused on data discovery, data inventory, data risk assessments, and encryption for both structured and unstructured data • Strong knowledge of cybersecurity laws, regulations, and best practices • Knowledge of data security frameworks, standards, and protocols • Strong understanding of data privacy laws and regulations (i.e. NYDFS, PCI, etc.) • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills • Excellent communication and presentation skills to effectively communicate with management and other stakeholders • Ability to excel in fast-paced, startup-like environment

🏖️ Benefits

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