Senior Engineer - DevOps (REMOTE)

GEICO is seeking an experienced Senior Engineer with a passion for building high performance, low-latency platforms and applications.

You will help drive our insurance business transformation as we redefine experience for our customers.

At GEICO the Senior Engineer is a key member of the engineering staff working across Business Services Engineering, Data Engineering, Platform Engineering, and Infrastructure Engineering to ensure that we provide a fiction-less experience to our customers, 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.

Responsibilities & Requirements

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

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

Automation scripting experience with a couple or more programming languages like Python, PowerShell, Linux Shell, Ansible, Puppet and knowledge on SQL queries, Java, dotNet

Advanced hands on experience working with Terraform and Kubernetes

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

Advanced understanding of DevOps, Cloud concepts (Azure DevOps framework), experience & knowledge with Enterprise Cloud platforms, enterprise data center technologies including storage platforms, networks, security infrastructure

Understanding of Security Protocols & Products : Active Directory, Windows Authentication, SAML, OAuth

Collaborate, support, work with Managed cloud vendor, coordinate with GEICO teams to support daily operations, releases, Disaster Recovery exercises.

Knowledge on DNS resolution, subnet masking, firewall concepts, processes; support & work with N / W team, Managed Cloud partner team, internal teams with the firewall requests, including providing guidance on requests and connection validations

Determines systems software design requirements, ensures system / applications improvements are successfully implemented and monitored for better efficiency

Support triage calls at a tier 2 level with good technical problem solving, analytical skills, logical thinking to provide resolutions to a diverse range of complex issues & ability to work independently with minimal supervision

Understand System design architecture, design patterns of current and future systems

Experience in analyzing, monitoring applications, systems with monitoring tools - DynaTrace, Sentry, Splunk, Grafana, Loki, similar tools.

Advanced hands-on experience creating Grafana operational dashboards, data visualization using Grafana

Experience with software tools - Microsoft ADO, Sharepoint, PowerBI, Helix, Confluence or similar

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

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

Build resilient services for extending and improving DevOps capabilities.

Mentor other engineers, consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams.

Experience

5+ years of professional software, system architecture & design, data analytics engineering experience

2+ years of experience with data visualization tools

2+ years of experience on Cloud platform Azure, AWS, hybrid data center

2+ years of experience in open-source frameworks

Education

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

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Annual Salary

$66,000.00 - $185,000.00

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.

Benefits :

As an Associate, you’ll enjoy our

• to help secure your financial future and preserve your health and well-being, including :
• Premier Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance with no waiting period
• Paid Vacation, Sick and Parental Leave
• 401(k) Plan
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Paid Training and Licensures
• Benefits may be different by location. Benefit eligibility requirements vary and may include length of service.

Coverage begins on the date of hire. Must enroll in New Hire Benefits within 30 days of the date of hire for coverage to take effect.