Senior Staff Engineer – and Observability

Senior Staff 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 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.

Position Description 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.

Position Responsibilities As a Senior Staff 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
• Mentor junior engineers

Qualifications

• Strong experience with monitoring, logging, alerting and observability in cloud environments
• Deep familiarity with tools like Grafana and Prometheus
• Experience with performance tuning
• Proficiency in Python programming and scripting
• 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)
• 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 plus

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience

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.

At this time, GEICO will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

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Great Company:
Protecting customers through life's twists and turns with innovation and integrity.

Great Careers:
Personalized development programs, mentorship, and certification assistance.

Great Culture:
Inclusive and collaborative culture rooted in shared success.

Great Rewards:
Competitive pay, benefits, and flexibility to support your well-being and future.

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