Sr. Staff Security Engineer - AI, VMR, Offensive Security

- Lead the strategy and technical execution of Vulnerability Management, Offensive Security, and AI-augmented security at scale.

- Lead the full vulnerability lifecycle: discovery, validation, risk analysis, prioritization, and remediation measurement.

- Leverage business contextualization, underlying systems, threat intelligence, and AI frontier models to perform risk assessment for identifying true risk to drive remediation.

- Integrations among scanning tools, asset inventory, CMDBs, ticketing, CI/CD, and monitoring pipelines to streamline workflows.

- Evaluate, test, and implement emerging AI technologies that advance automated discovery and remediation.

- Design automation to reduce manual work, increase accuracy, and accelerate remediation.

- Generate data-driven insights that help teams understand, prioritize, and resolve vulnerabilities efficiently.

- Drive customer success for the vulnerability management and offensive security functions.

- Play role of an advisor to senior executive leadership.

- Collaborate with cloud, infrastructure, DevOps, and product engineering groups to integrate vulnerability management into pipelines and delivery workflows.

- Work closely with risk, compliance, governance, and incident response teams to ensure alignment with organizational and regulatory standards.

- Communicate vulnerability trends, risk implications, and remediation strategies to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

- Define KPIs, SLAs, dashboards, and reporting models to drive accountability and measurable vulnerability reduction.

- Establish repeatable processes, playbooks, and workflows that ensure consistent VM operations across teams and environments.

- Ensure the reliability, performance, and scalability of VM tools and data pipelines.

- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers, offering guidance on advanced security concepts, engineering best practices, and career development.

- Serve as a multiplier by elevating skillsets across teams through coaching, pairing, design reviews, and knowledge-sharing.

- Influence architecture and engineering leadership with clear communication, strong decision-making, and the ability to simplify complex security issues.

- 10+ years of experience in cybersecurity or security engineering roles.

- Deep expertise with vulnerability management tools, methodologies, and industry standards.

- Hands-on experience with modern infrastructure, cloud services (AWS/Azure/GCP), container platforms, and operating systems.

- Proficiency with a modern programming language (Python, Go, Java, etc.) and scripting for automation at scale.

- Strong understanding of security architecture, networking, operating systems, identity, and cloud services.

- Proven ability to lead, mentor, and inspire engineers across multiple teams.

- Strong communication skills with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and translate complex risks into actionable guidance.

- Hands-on experience implementing cybersecurity frameworks e.g. NIST CSF

- Hands-on experience with leading compliance initiatives to meet e.g. PCI, SOX, NYDFS, etc.

- Exposure to comprehensive security assessment, penetration testing, threat modeling, or security research.

- Familiarity with SIEM, SOAR, and asset intelligence integrations.

- Security certifications (CISSP, GCSA, OSCP, cloud security certs) are a plus.

- Experience embedding security controls into CI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps workflows.

- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Cyber Security, or equivalent education with relevant work experience

Annual Salary $120,000.00 - $260,000.00 The above annual salary range is a general guideline. Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final hourly rate/ annual salary to be offered to the selected candidate. Factors include, but are not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the role, the selected candidate's work experience, education and training, the work location as well as market and business considerations.

At this time, GEICO will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

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