Distinguished Engineer – Private Cloud Platform Engineering

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GEICO is seeking a transformational Distinguished Engineer to lead the technical vision, architecture, and evolution of our next-generation private cloud platform. This role will be responsible for driving the strategy, design, and implementation of a highly scalable, secure, and operationally efficient cloud ecosystem built on Open Stack, Kubernetes, Ceph, and Software Defined Networking technologies.

As one of GEICO's most senior technical leaders, you will define the future-state architecture for our multi-region private cloud, influence technology decisions across Infrastructure, Security, Platform Engineering, and Developer Experience organizations, and help accelerate GEICO's modernization journey. You will partner with engineering leaders, architects, and executives to build cloud capabilities that rival public cloud providers while leveraging open-source technologies and commodity hardware to optimize cost, resilience, and scalability.

This role requires deep expertise in cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, networking, storage architecture, and platform engineering along with the ability to influence across organizational boundaries and mentor senior engineering talent.

• Define and own the long-term technical roadmap for GEICO's Private Cloud Platform.
• Establish architectural standards for Open Stack, Kubernetes, Ceph, SDN, identity integration, observability, and automation platforms.
• Lead design reviews across multiple organizations and drive architectural consistency throughout the infrastructure ecosystem.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend strategic investments that improve platform capabilities, operational excellence, and cost efficiency.

• Architect and evolve a large-scale Open Stack-based Infrastructure-as-a-Service platform.
• Define multi-region designs supporting virtual machines, bare metal services, storage, networking, and container platforms.
• Drive modernization initiatives including platform resiliency, disaster recovery, multi-datacenter expansion, and workload migration from legacy virtualization platforms.
• Partner with security teams to implement Zero Trust networking, workload identity, encryption, and compliance controls.

• Define software-defined networking architectures spanning datacenter and hybrid cloud environments.
• Drive innovations in network virtualization, overlay technologies, routing automation, load balancing, firewall integration, and network observability.
• Partner closely with networking teams to design scalable east-west and north-south traffic architectures.

• Provide technical leadership for large-scale Ceph deployments supporting block, object, and cloud-native storage services.
• Design highly available storage architectures for Open Stack, Kubernetes, and application platforms.
• Drive capacity planning, performance optimization, data durability, disaster recovery, and operational excellence initiatives.

• Mentor Senior Staff, Principal, and Staff Engineers.
• Lead critical incident reviews, architecture reviews, and technical decision-making forums.
• Build alignment across infrastructure, security, platform, and application engineering organizations.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to executive leadership for private cloud strategy and investment…