Senior Staff Engineer – Performance and Observability

Why Join GEICO?

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 continuousimprovement.

PositionDescription

Our Senior Staff Engineer works with our Distinguished Engineer and Staff Engineers to design, deploy, andmaintainOpenStack-based environments. You will help lead the automation of cloud operations, support containerization initiatives, and helpoptimizeour CI/CD pipelines.The ideal candidate hasexpertisein monitoring and observability stacks, Python or similar languages, infrastructure deployment automation, and containerization technologies. Experience with OpenStack ispreferred, butadditionalexperience in otherrequiredareas may offset.

PositionResponsibilities

As a Senior Staff Engineer, you will:

• Improve on monitoring,observabilityand performance of deployed systems

• Design, deploy, and manage OpenStack-based cloud environments

• Develop andmaintainautomation scripts and playbooks using Python, Ansible, and GitHub Workflows

• Implement andoptimizeCI/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,alertingand observability in cloud environments

• Experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting in cloud environments

• Deep familiarity with tools like Grafana and Promethius

• Experience with performance tuning

• Proficiencyin Python programming and scripting

• Experience with OpenStack administration and operations preferred

• Strong experience with Ansible for automation and configuration management

• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools and workflows (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions,ArgoCD)

• Proficiencyin Python programming or scripting

• Good understanding of networking and security best practices in cloud deployments

• Experiencewith containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)

• Experience with infrastructure as code and deployment automation

• Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills

• Strong communicationand collaboration abilities

Experience

• 8+ years of professional experience in cloud engineering, platform administration, or infrastructure automation

• 8+ years of experience with OpenStack 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, oron-premises) is a plus

• Experience with low level virtualization technologies (QEMU/libvirt) is a plus

Education

Bachelor’sdegree 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.

The GEICO Pledge:

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.

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.