Senior Staff Engineer – and Observability

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. 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 continuous improvement.

Our Senior Staff Engineer works with our Distinguished Engineer and Staff Engineers to design, deploy, and maintain Open Stack-based environments. You will help lead the automation of cloud operations, support containerization initiatives, and help optimize our CI/CD pipelines. The ideal candidate has expertise in monitoring and observability stacks, Python or similar languages, infrastructure deployment automation, and containerization technologies. Experience with Open Stack is preferred, but additional experience in other required areas may offset.

• Improve on monitoring, observability and performance of deployed systems
• Design, deploy, and manage Open Stack-based cloud environments
• Develop and maintain automation scripts and playbooks using Python, Ansible, and Git Hub Workflows
• Implement and optimize CI/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

• Strong experience with monitoring, logging, alerting and 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
• Proficiency in Python programming and scripting
• Experience with Open Stack administration and operations preferred
• Strong experience with Ansible f or automation and configuration management
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools and workflows (e.g., Jenkins, Git Hub Actions, ArgoCD)
• Proficiency in Python programming or scripting
• Good understanding of networking and security best practices in cloud deployments
• Experience with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience with infrastructure as code and deployment automation
• Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Strong communication and collaboration abilities
• Experience 8+ years of professional experience in cloud engineering, platform administration, or infrastructure automation
• 8+ years of experience with Open Stack 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, or on-premises) is a plus
• Experience with low level virtualization technologies (QEMU/libvirt) is a…