Senior Engineer

Why Join GEICO?

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 on relentless innovation to exceed our customers' expectations while making a real impact on local communities nationwide.

Founded in 1936, GEICO is a member of the Berkshire Hathaway family of companies and one of the largest auto insurers in the United States. 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 Description

Our Senior Engineer is a key member of the engineering staff working across the organization to provide 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 managing infra resources to System reliability and all points in between. An ideal candidate will have deep expertise in DevOps and a good understanding of System Engineering needed to help us build and support Billing eco system.

Position Responsibilities

As a Senior Engineer, 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
• 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 
• ​Mentor other engineers  
• ​Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams 

Qualifications

• Experience with Azure Cloud and DevOps pipelines
• Advance Experience in Hybrid cloud environments with Azure, AWS, or GCP and Linux based on-prem environment
• Advance 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
• SQL and Postgres familiarity
• Lifecycle tooling knowledge (planning, source, build, deploy, operations)
• Advanced understanding of DevOps concepts including Azure DevOps framework and tools
• Advanced PowerShell scripting skills
• Monitoring tools: App Insights, Splunk, Titan
• Ability to excel in a fast-paced environment
• Cloud architect certifications are preferred

 Experience

• 4+ years of professional DevOps experience
• 3+ years of experience with architecture and design
• 3+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, 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

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: Protecting customers through life’s twists and turns with innovation and integrity.

Great Careers: Personalized development programs, mentorship, and certification assistance.

Great Culture: Inclusive and collaborative culture rooted in shared success.

Great Rewards: Competitive pay, benefits, and flexibility to support your well-being and future.

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.