Senior Systems Engineer
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Job description
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., Our Senior Engineer works with our Distinguished Engineer and Staff Engineers to design, deploy, and maintain OpenStack-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 OpenStack is also a plus., As a Senior Engineer, you will: Improve on monitoring, observability and performance of deployed systems Design, deploy, and manage OpenStack-based cloud environments Develop and maintain automation scripts and playbooks using Python, Ansible, and GitHub 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
Requirements
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, GitHub 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 OpenStack administration and operations a plus Experience 4+ years of professional experience in cloud engineering, platform administration, or infrastructure automation 4+ years of experience with OpenStack 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 #LI-RP2
Benefits & conditions
Annual Salary $100,000.00 - $215,000.00, + $140,000-165,000 per year