Distinguished Engineer - Qualification & Delivery - Release Platform
Listed on 2025-12-28
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IT/Tech
Systems Engineer, Cloud Computing
Distinguished Engineer - Qualification & Delivery - Release Platform
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Job Summary
GEICO is seeking a Distinguished Engineer to serve as a technical leader within the Deployment and Release Platform and Platform Engineering teams. This role is ideal for an industry expert who excels in designing and scaling continuous delivery, deployment automation, and platform engineering solutions for large-scale enterprise environments.
As a Distinguished Engineer, you will define and drive the next generation of CD pipelines, Git Ops strategies, platform engineering, and release automation frameworks, ensuring high availability, performance, security, and developer productivity across the organization. You will collaborate with application teams, senior leadership, and industry partners to set technology direction, influence strategic initiatives, and implement next‑gen release platform and Platform Engineering methodologies.
This is a hands‑on technical leadership role where you will guide the team in building robust, scalable, and secure platforms that empower developers, streamline deployment workflows, and enable seamless software releases at enterprise scale.
Position Responsibilities- Define and drive the strategic roadmap for GEICO’s Deployment and Release Platform and Platform Engineering, ensuring scalability, reliability, and developer efficiency.
- Architect and optimize high-performance CI/CD frameworks and Platform Engineering solutions to support 3000+ engineers and enable self‑service infrastructure.
- Pioneer the adoption of Git Ops principles using Flux, ArgoCD, and Kubernetes, enabling automated, declarative deployments.
- Define service‑to‑service communication patterns, and discoverability using Istio Service Mesh.
- Design and enforce deployment control gates using Policy‑as‑Code methodologies with Open Policy Agent (OPA) and Rego, ensuring secure, compliant, and auditable deployments.
- Lead the adoption of cloud‑native deployment patterns, and containerized workflows.
- Develop platform engineering frameworks that empower developers with self‑service capabilities, reducing communication confusion and accelerating software delivery.
- Define best practices for monitoring, logging, tracing, and release observability using tools like Prometheus and Grafana.
- Serve as a mentor, and advocate for best practices in Dev Sec Ops , Continuous Delivery, Platform Engineering, and Cloud‑Native development across GEICO and the broader engineering community.
- Cross‑Team
Collaboration:
Work with Application, CI, Security, SRE, and Observability teams to drive alignment on deployment strategies, platform engineering solutions, and software delivery automation.
- 15+ years of software engineering, Dev Ops, or platform engineering experience, with a deep focus on Dev Sec Ops , CI/CD, deployment automation, platform engineering, and release engineering.
- Expertise in Kubernetes, container orchestration, and Git Ops workflows (ArgoCD, Helm).
- Deep experience with high‑scale CI/CD platforms, including Git Hub Actions, Jenkins, Azure Dev Ops pipelines.
- Strong understanding of Deployment Control Gates and…
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