Staff Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

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.

GEICO’s Cybersecurity organization has an exciting opportunity for an accomplished Staff Cloud Infrastructure Engineer. This individual will play a key role within GEICO’s Cyber Security Engineering & Analytics (SEA) team, with a focus on designing, building, and scaling cloud-native infrastructure that enables secure and resilient cybersecurity services.

Position Description:

As a Staff Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, you will be responsible for architecting and implementing scalable, secure, and automated cloud infrastructure across Azure, AWS and on-prem private cloud. This role emphasizes infrastructure-as-code (IaC), CI/CD integration, containerization, image development, and monitoring/metrics at scale.
 

The engineer will partner with development and security teams to deliver modern cloud solutions that enable automation, accelerate product delivery, and strengthen the organization’s security posture. This individual will also act as a mentor to engineers within the team, championing cloud best practices, DevOps maturity, and engineering excellence.

Position Responsibilities:

As a Staff Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, you will:

• Architect Cloud Infrastructure: Design and implement scalable, fault-tolerant infrastructure across AWS and Azure environments.
• Enable Infrastructure-as-Code: Develop and manage IaC using Terraform and other automation tools for consistent, repeatable deployments.
• Drive CI/CD Integration: Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, etc.) to automate infrastructure provisioning and application deployments.
• Containerization & Image Development: Design, build, and maintain containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes) and standardized base images.
• Ensure Scalability & Resilience: Implement solutions that meet high-availability, scalability, and performance requirements for enterprise workloads.
• Service Monitoring & Metrics: Develop monitoring solutions and observability pipelines (Grafana, Prometheus, CloudWatch, Azure Monitor) to track infrastructure health and performance.
• Champion Cloud Security: Embed secure architecture practices into infrastructure design, working closely with security engineering teams.
• Mentor & Collaborate: Provide technical mentorship to peers, foster cross-functional collaboration, and promote a culture of engineering excellence.
• Leverage Open Source: Integrate and contribute to open-source infrastructure, monitoring, and DevOps tools where appropriate.

Qualifications

• Cloud Expertise: Proven experience designing and operating large-scale infrastructure in AWS and Azure.
• Infrastructure-as-Code Mastery: Strong proficiency with Terraform (required), with experience in Ansible or similar tools a plus.
• CI/CD Proficiency: Experience building and managing automated pipelines for infrastructure and application delivery.
• Containerization: Expertise with Docker and container orchestration (Kubernetes, ECS, AKS, or similar).
• Monitoring & Metrics: Hands-on experience with observability platforms such as Grafana, Prometheus, CloudWatch, or Azure Monitor.
• Security Familiarity (Preferred): Understanding of cloud-native security principles, IAM, and compliance requirements.
• Collaboration & Influence: Strong communication skills with proven ability to partner with leadership, development, and cybersecurity teams.
• Experience with programming languages such as Python and/or Go is required

Experience

• 10+ years of professional experience in cloud infrastructure engineering.
• 8+ years designing and managing AWS and/or Azure environments.
• 6+ years with Terraform and infrastructure automation.
• 5+ years with containerization and container orchestration.
• Experience implementing monitoring and observability at scale.
• Experience working in security-conscious enterprise environments is a strong plus.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).

Annual Salary

$115,000.00 - $230,000.00

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.

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.

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