Senior Systems Engineer

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 Senior 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.

Position Description

Our Senior Engineer works with our Distinguished Engineer and Staff Engineers to design, deploy, and maintain Open Stack-based environments. You will help lead improve and expand the observability, performance and operability of our private cloud deployments 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 also a plus.

Position Responsibilities

As a Senior Engineer, you will:

* 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

Qualifications

* Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting and observability in cloud environments

* Experience with tools like Grafana and Promethius

* Experience with performance tuning

* Familiarity with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)

* Strong experience with Ansible for 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

* Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills

* Strong communication and collaboration abilities

* Experience with Open Stack administration and operations a plus

Experience

* 4+ years of professional experience in cloud engineering, platform administration, or infrastructure automation

* 4+ years of experience with Open Stack or similar cloud platforms

* 4+ years of experience with Python and Ansible

* 4+ years of experience with monitoring and observability systems

* 4+ years of experience with 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 plus

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.

GEICO will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.

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…