About the position
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 is a key member of the engineering staff working across the organization to provide friction-less experience to our customers and maintain the highest standards of protection and availability. Our team thrives and succeeds in delivering high quality technology products and services in a hyper-growth environment where priorities shift quickly. The ideal candidate has broad and deep technical knowledge, typically ranging from managing backend resources to System reliability and all points in between. An ideal candidate will have deep expertise in DevOps and a good understanding of Data Engineering needed to help us build a Finance Data Lake from the ground up.
Responsibilities
- Scope, design, and build scalable, resilient distributed systems through cross-functional collaboration throughout Software Development Lifecycle
- Build highly reliable infrastructure and leverage your technical skills to drive towards efficient and optimal solution
- Automate tasks, test infrastructure, build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, and integration with edge data sources for Data Engineering teams to increase developer efficiency and effectiveness
- Deliver high quality software and establishing best practices and processes across the organization through code reviews, test automation and mentor engineers
- Utilize programming languages like Python, C# or other object-oriented languages, SQL, and NoSQL databases, Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, and a variety of Azure tools and services
- Mentor other engineers
- Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams
Requirements
- Advance Experience in Hybrid cloud environments with Azure, AWS, or GCP and Linux based on-prem environment
- Advance Experience working with CI/CD, Azure Just-in-Time, VM Access, Azure Cloud Services, Azure Active Directory, Azure Automation Accounts, Azure subscription and Resource management, Kubernetes, or similar containerization technology, Docker, Helm, Terraform, GitHub, and IT automation tools like Chef or Ansible
- Experience in programming languages such as Python, Java, C#, or other object-oriented languages, and in SQL, and NoSQL databases
- Hands-on experience building platforms from ground up using resiliency patterns, observability, continuous delivery, and infrastructure as code
- Experience implementing Spark on Kubernetes hosted on-prem/cloud, with monitoring and security protocols
- Experience building and maintaining cloud data solutions (Delta Lake, Iceberg, Hudi, Snowflake, Redshift or equivalent)
- Experience working streaming applications (Spark Streaming, Flink, Kafka or equivalent)
- Strong knowledge of data formats such as Parquet, Avro, ORC, XML, JSON, data processing/data transformation using ETL/ELT tools such as DBT (Data Build Tool) or Databricks, and AI/machine learning infrastructure needs
- Advanced understanding of DevOps concepts including Azure DevOps framework and tools
- Advanced PowerShell scripting skills
- Ability to excel in a fast-paced environment
- Cloud architect certifications are preferred
Benefits
- 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.
