DevOps Engineer II - FinTech Commissions & Substantiation (Hybrid)

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.

At GEICO Technology Solutions, we are on a journey to revolutionize the Insurtech space with our technology offerings in the Insurance market and provide excellent service with better efficiency to our Customers and Associates. To achieve our vision and mission, we are focusing on transforming our existing tech to deliver products and capabilities that are marketplace ready and are agnostic of the Line of Business or the Channel utilized.

With this massive mission, we are looking to build a strong team of skilled and talented engineers for our Finance Technology organization, with a passion for building high-performance, low-latency platforms, and applications.

If you are interested in transforming and building a new set of applications for Insurtech, this is a great opportunity to join us while we expand our team in this space.

GEICO Tech is looking for a highly motivated DevOps Engineer II to join our Commissions & Substantiation Platform team. In this role, you’ll work closely with cross-functional teams to help build a Finance Data Lake from the ground up.

*The ideal candidate has expertise in DevOps with a good understanding of Data Engineering ranging from managing backend resources to system reliability and all points in between.  We are specifically looking for someone that has data lake experience with AWS or Azure, experience/exposure to Azure, Kubernetes, Windows Servers, Power Shell, Infrastructure and Application Security.

Position Responsibilities

As a DevOps Engineer II within our Commissions & Substantiation team, you will:

• Scope, design, and build scalable, resilient distributed systems through cross-functional collaboration throughout Software Development Lifecycle

• Build highly reliable infrastructure and leverage your technical skills to drive towards efficient and optimal solution

• Automate tasks, test infrastructure, build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, and integration with edge data sources for Data Engineering teams to increase developer efficiency and effectiveness

• Deliver high quality software and establishing best practices and processes across the organization through code reviews, test automation and mentor engineers

• ​​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 

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

Qualifications

• Experience in Hybrid cloud environments with Azure or AWS and Linux based on-prem environment

• Experience working with CI/CD, Azure Just-in-Time, VM Access, Azure Cloud Services, Azure Active Directory, Azure Automation Accounts, Azure subscription and Resource management, Kubernetes, or similar containerization technology, Docker, Helm, Terraform, GitHub, and IT automation tools like Chef or Ansible

• Experience in programming languages such as Python, Java, C#, or other object-oriented languages, and in SQL, and NoSQL databases

• Hands-on experience building platforms from ground up using resiliency patterns, observability, continuous delivery, and infrastructure as code

• Experience implementing Spark on Kubernetes hosted on-prem/cloud, with monitoring and security protocols

• Ability to write and implement scripts in PowerShell, Ant, Maven, or similar build and deployment languages

• Experience with Microservices, API services deployment

• Strong knowledge of data formats such as Parquet, Avro, ORC, XML, JSON, data processing/data transformation using ETL/ELT tools such as DBT (Data Build Tool) or Databricks, and AI/machine learning infrastructure needs

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

• Ability to excel in a fast-paced environment

• Cloud architect certifications are preferred

Minimum Requirements

• 3+ years of developing and maintaining software deployment processes in a Java, .NET, or Python environments

• 2+ years of experience with architecture and design

• 2+ years of experience with AWS, Azure, or 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

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.

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.