Senior Systems Engineer

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, 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.

Do you have experience in Virtualization?, Do you have a Bachelor’s degree?, * 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, Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience

3.13.1 out of 5 stars Palo Alto, CA 94306 $100,000 - $215,000 a year - Full-time, Pulled from the full job description

• Tuition reimbursement
• Health insurance
• Adoption assistance

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., 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.