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 is seeking an experienced Senior Staff 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 continuousimprovement.
PositionDescription
Our Senior Staff Engineer works with our Distinguished Engineer and Staff Engineers to design, deploy, andmaintainOpenStack-based environments. You will help lead the automation of cloud operations, support containerization initiatives, and helpoptimizeour CI/CD pipelines.The ideal candidate hasexpertisein monitoring and observability stacks, Python or similar languages, infrastructure deployment automation, and containerization technologies. Experience with OpenStack ispreferred, butadditionalexperience in otherrequiredareas may offset.
PositionResponsibilities
As a Senior Staff Engineer, you will:
Improve on monitoring,observabilityand performance of deployed systems
Design, deploy, and manage OpenStack-based cloud environments
Develop andmaintainautomation scripts and playbooks using Python, Ansible, and GitHub Workflows
Implement andoptimizeCI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application delivery
Support containerization initiatives (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
Troubleshoot and resolve issues in cloud and automation workflows
Collaborate with development, operations, and security teams
Share best practices and improve processes within and across teams
Participate in on-call and operational support as needed
Mentor junior engineers
Qualifications
Strong experience with monitoring, logging,alertingand observability in cloud environments
Experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting in cloud environments
Deep familiarity with tools like Grafana and Promethius
Experience with performance tuning
Proficiencyin Python programming and scripting
Experience with OpenStack administration and operations preferred
Strong experience with Ansible for automation and configuration management
Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools and workflows (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions,ArgoCD)
Proficiencyin Python programming or scripting
Good understanding of networking and security best practices in cloud deployments
Experiencewith containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
Experience with infrastructure as code and deployment automation
Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
Strong communicationand collaboration abilities
Experience
8+ years of professional experience in cloud engineering, platform administration, or infrastructure automation
8+ years of experience with OpenStack or similar cloud platforms
8+ years of experience with Python and Ansible
8+ years of experience with CI/CD systems and containerization technologies
Experience with hybrid or multi-cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure, oron-premises) is a plus
Experience with low level virtualization technologies (QEMU/libvirt) is a plus
Education
Bachelor’sdegree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience
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Annual Salary
$110,000.00 - $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.
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.