Staff Engineer – CMaaS; Platform and Tools - VMs

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.

GEICO is seeking an experienced 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 Staff Engineers work with our Distinguished Engineers, Sr. Staff Engineers, and Sr. Engineers to innovate and build new systems, improve, and enhance existing systems as well as identify new opportunities to apply your knowledge to solve critical problems. You will lead the strategy and execution of a technical roadmap that will increase the velocity of delivering products and unlock new engineering capabilities.

The Platform and Tools - VMs team is dedicated to realizing a secure, reliable, scalable, and highly efficient next‑generation virtual machine management and orchestration platform running on Kubernetes.

We are seeking an experienced engineer specializing in Configuration Management to lead the design, implementation, and evolution of our configuration management infrastructure. This role requires deep technical expertise in configuration management systems, infrastructure as code, and the ability to drive technical strategy across engineering teams. The ideal candidate will be a leader who can architect scalable, reliable, and maintainable configuration management solutions.

• Design and architect enterprise‑grade configuration management systems and platforms.

• Lead the development of configuration management tools, frameworks, and best practices.

• Drive technical decisions and establish standards for configuration management across the organization.

• Mentor and guide engineers on configuration management principles and practices.

• Develop automation for configuration deployment, validation, and rollback.

• Create self‑service tooling for configuration management.

• Design scalable configuration management solutions that support thousands of services and environments.

• Implement infrastructure as code (IaC) patterns and tooling (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Chef, etc.).

• Build and maintain configuration management platforms and services.

• Develop automation for configuration deployment, validation, and rollback.

• Create self‑service tooling for configuration management.

• Define the technical roadmap for configuration management capabilities.

• Evaluate and recommend new tools, technologies, and methodologies.

• Drive adoption of configuration management best practices across engineering teams.

• Identify opportunities to improve configuration management processes and reduce operational overhead.

• Stay current with industry trends and emerging technologies in configuration management.

• Work closely with platform, infrastructure, and application engineering teams.

• Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders to understand requirements.

• Communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non‑technical audiences.

• Document architecture decisions, patterns, and best practices.

• Present technical proposals and solutions to leadership.

• Ensure configuration management systems meet usability, reliability, security, and performance requirements.

• Implement monitoring, alerting, and observability for configuration management infrastructure.

• Troubleshoot and resolve complex configuration…