Senior Engineer- DevOps {REMOTE}

At GEICO, we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless possibilities. 

Every day we honor our iconic brand by offering quality coverage to millions of customers and being there when they need us most. We thrive through relentless innovation to exceed our customers’ expectations while making a real impact for our company through our shared purpose. 

When you join our company, we want you to feel valued, supported and proud to work here. That’s why we offer The GEICO Pledge: Great Company, Great Culture, Great Rewards and Great Careers.

Position Summary    

​​GEICO is seeking an experienced Senior Engineer with a passion for building high performance, low maintenance, zero-downtime platforms, and applications. You will help drive our insurance business transformation as we transition from a traditional IT model to a tech organization with engineering excellence as its mission, while co-creating the culture of psychological safety and continuous improvement.  

 

Position Description   

Our Senior Engineer is a key member of the engineering staff working across the organization to provide a friction-less experience to our customers and maintain the highest standards of protection and availability. Our team thrives and succeeds in delivering high quality technology products and services in a hyper-growth environment where priorities shift quickly. The ideal candidate has broad and deep technical knowledge, typically ranging from front-end UIs through back-end systems and all points in between. 

  

Position Responsibilities   

​​As a Senior Engineer, you will:   

• ​Scope, design, and build scalable, resilient distributed systems   

• ​Build product definition and leverage your technical skills to drive towards the right solution   

• ​Lead in design sessions and code reviews with peers to elevate the quality of engineering across the organization   

• ​Define, create, and support reusable application components/patterns from a business and technology perspective   

• Utilize programming languages like Python, C# or other object-oriented languages, SQL, and NoSQL databases, Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, and a variety of Azure tools and services 

• ​Utilize developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, operations, real-time communication) to perform advanced-level Mobile/Web/UI design, implementation, and maintenance activities under minimal direction   

• Work with Cloud managed partner team and GEICO teams on day-to-day activities to support GEICO Claims operations 

• Support and work with multiple partner and internal teams with the firewall requests, including providing guidance on requests and connection validations 

• Employ continuous delivery patterns and collaboratively work with developers to achieve successful continuous delivery solutions 

• Establish and employ continuous integration practices and tools 

• Build resilient services for extending and improving DevOps capabilities 

• Engage in cross-functional collaboration throughout the entire software lifecycle 

• Support triage calls at a tier 2 level with good technical problem solving, analytical skills, and logical thinking to provide resolutions to a diverse range of complex issues  

• Provide 24/7 operations support for production, other critical environments, DevOps multi-tasking and with clear communication skills 

• Collaborate, support, and work with managed cloud vendor 

• Coordinate with GEICO teams to support daily operations, releases, and disaster recovery exercises 

• Determine systems software design requirements, ensure system/applications improvements are successfully implemented and monitored for better efficiency 

• Mentor other engineers    

• ​Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams   

 

Qualifications   

• ​Experience with design and development of ALM features 

• Development and Management EAP 

• Advanced PowerShell scripting skills 

• Advanced understanding of monitoring concepts and tooling Experience with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code  

• In-depth knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms 

• Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, operations, real-time communication) 

• Knowledge of MuleSoft 4.x Platform Administration 

• Ability to deploy application manually, change policies, enable application authentication through OAuth 

• Experience managing user Access, Service management on VM, upgrade patches, and change configuration are preferred 

• Ability to understand System design architecture topology diagrams 

• Knowledge of on CI/CD pipelines to streamline software development and deployment  

• Experience architecting and designing new and current systems 

• Advanced understanding of DevOps concepts including Azure DevOps framework and tools 

• Experience and knowledge with Enterprise Cloud platforms, enterprise data center technologies including storage platforms, networks, security infrastructure 

• Experience in security protocols and products: Understanding of Active Directory, Windows Authentication, SAML, OAuth   

• Experience working as an Infrastructure, Middleware, DevOps engineer on Linux, Windows Operating Systems 

• Experience with installation, configuration, administration of Web Servers, and Application Servers (Apache, JBoss EAP, WildFly, Tomcat, IIS, Dot-Net, WebSphere) 

• Experience on configuration and administration on messaging systems such as IBM MQ, Apache, Kafka, and ActiveMQ 

• Knowledge on DNS resolution, subnet masking, firewall concepts, and processes  

• Experience with software tools such as Microsoft ADO, SharePoint, PowerBI, Helix, Confluence or similar 

• Advanced hands-on experience creating Grafana operational dashboards.  Data visualization using Grafana is required 

• Experience in application monitoring and performance assessments using tools such as Dynatrace, Sentry, Grafana, Loki, or similar 

• Experience with data visualization tools 

• Experience with Automation scripting  

• Hands-on experience with one or more of the following: Python, PowerShell, Linux Shell, Ansible, Puppet   

• Knowledge on SQL queries, Java, and .NET is required 

• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision 

• Excellent Communication skills 

• Strong problem-solving ability 

• Ability to excel in a fast-paced environment 

 

Experience ​   

• 4+ years of professional engineering experience in software, system architecture and design, and data analytics 

• 3+ years of experience with architecture and design   

• 3+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, hybrid data center, or another cloud service   

• 2+ years of experience in open-source frameworks   

 

Education   

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience    

 

 

Annual Salary

$105,000.00 - $215,000.00

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.

 

GEICO will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.

 

The GEICO Pledge:

Great Company: At GEICO, we help our customers through life’s twists and turns. Our mission is to protect people when they need it most and we’re constantly evolving to stay ahead of their needs.

We’re an iconic brand that thrives on innovation, exceeding our customers’ expectations and enabling our collective success. From day one, you’ll take on exciting challenges that help you grow and collaborate with dynamic teams who want to make a positive impact on people’s lives.

Great Careers: We offer a career where you can learn, grow, and thrive through personalized development programs, created with your career – and your potential – in mind.  You’ll have access to industry leading training, certification assistance, career mentorship and coaching with supportive leaders at all levels.

Great Culture: We foster an inclusive culture of shared success, rooted in integrity, a bias for action and a winning mindset. Grounded by our core values, we have an an established culture of caring, inclusion, and belonging, that values different perspectives. Our teams are led by dynamic, multi-faceted teams led by supportive leaders, driven by performance excellence and unified under a shared purpose.

As part of our culture, we also offer employee engagement and recognition programs that reward the positive impact our work makes on the lives of our customers.

Great Rewards: We offer compensation and benefits built to enhance your physical well-being, mental and emotional health and financial future.

• Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your family’s overall well-being.
• Financial benefits including market-competitive compensation; a 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match; performance and recognition-based incentives; and tuition assistance.
• Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance.
• Supports flexibility- We provide workplace flexibility as well as our GEICO Flex program, which offers the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year.

The equal employment opportunity policy of the GEICO Companies provides for a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, familial status, disability or genetic information, in compliance with applicable federal, state and local law. GEICO hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled.

GEICO reasonably accommodates qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to receive equal employment opportunity and/or perform the essential functions of the job, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship to the Company. This applies to all applicants and associates. GEICO also provides a work environment in which each associate is able to be productive and work to the best of their ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment. We expect and require the cooperation of all associates in maintaining an atmosphere free from discrimination and harassment with mutual respect by and for all associates and applicants.