Senior Software Engineer - Devops

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.

Position Summary

GEICO is seeking talented and experienced DevOps SRE with strong technical background in programming, configuration management, CI/CD pipelines, containerization and cloud platforms. In this role, you will design and maintain efficient infrastructure, automate deployment processes, monitor system performance, and collaborate with development teams to ensure reliable and scalable operations.

Position Description

At GEICO Technology Solutions, we are on a journey to revolutionize the Insurtech space with our technology offerings in the Insurance market and provide excellent service with better efficiency to our Customers and Associates. To achieve our vision and mission, we are focusing on transforming our existing tech to deliver products and capabilities that are marketplace ready and are agnostic of the Line of Business or the Channel utilized. With this massive mission, we are looking to build a strong team of skilled and talented DevOps engineers for our Claims Technology team with passion for building high-performance, low-latency platforms and applications.

Position Responsibilities

• Scope, design, and develop scalable and resilient distributed infrastructure, platforms, and applications.

• Lead design sessions and topology reviews to enhance the quality of engineering across the organization.

• Execute infrastructure and software delivery using Agile methodology (Scrum and Kanban) to enable continuous delivery.

• Leverage Infrastructure as code, PowerShell scripting, operation portals (such as Azure Portal) and monitoring tools (including Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, Azure Application Insights) to ensure robust, timely and cost-effective outcomes.

• Lead migration efforts from on-prem legacy services to Kubernetes (AKS), Docker containers and App Services by collaborating with architects, developers, configuration management, network and security teams.

• Effectively manage the delivery of multiple projects and initiatives simultaneously, mentor and support junior engineers. Share best practices and drive process improvements within and across teams.

• Build infrastructure definitions for highly resilient systems, apply technical expertise to troubleshoot across multiple systems, deploy multi-region high-availability systems and provide operational support.

• Automate operational tasks to improve efficiency and reduce manual work.

• Represent the team and provide outstanding 24x7 production support as part of an on-call rotation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field.

• 6+ years of experience in Infrastructure, DevOps, SRE and Cloud Architecture.

• Strong background in Software engineering and IT operations.

• Proficiency in at least one programming language (Python, Java, Go, JavaScript).

• Strong knowledge of Linux/Unix systems, 2+ years of experience in scripting languages (Bash, Python)

• Understanding of networking concepts (Load balancing, Firewall, DNS, Nginx)

• 2+ years of experience working with monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, Azure App Insights)

• Ability to implement and manage logging and alerting systems

• 2+ years of experience with IoC/Automation technologies (Terraform, ARM templates, Ansible)

• Experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, AKS)

• 3+ years of experience in Production support, incident triaging and Root Cause Analysis

• 2+ years of experience with build and release automation products (CI/CD, ADO, Git, Jenkins)

• Relevant certifications in Azure, DevOps, or Kubernetes administration are preferred.

Annual Salary

$105,000.00 - $215,000.00

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 winning mindset. Grounded by our core values, we have an an established culture of caring, inclusion, and belonging, that values different perspectives. Our teams are led by dynamic, multi-faceted teams led by supportive leaders, driven by performance excellence and unified under a shared purpose.

As part of our culture, we also offer employee engagement and recognition programs that reward the positive impact our work makes on the lives of our customers.

Great Rewards: We offer compensation and benefits built to enhance your physical well-being, mental and emotional health and financial future.

• Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your family's overall well-being.
• Financial benefits including market-competitive compensation; a 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match; performance and recognition-based incentives; and tuition assistance.
• Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance.
• Supports flexibility- We provide workplace flexibility as well as our GEICO Flex program, which offers the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year.

The equal employment opportunity policy of the GEICO Companies provides for a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, familial status, disability or genetic information, in compliance with applicable federal, state and local law. GEICO hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled.

GEICO reasonably accommodates qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to receive equal employment opportunity and/or perform the essential functions of the job, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship to the Company. This applies to all applicants and associates. GEICO also provides a work environment in which each associate is able to be productive and work to the best of their ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment. We expect and require the cooperation of all associates in maintaining an atmosphere free from discrimination and harassment with mutual respect by and for all associates and applicants.