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We thrive on relentless innovation to exceed our customers' expectations while making a real impact on local communities nationwide.\nFounded 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.\nPosition Description:\nWe are looking for a highly motivated and skilled Staff Engineer - FinOpsto join ourCapacity and Workload Management organization. This role is part of the FinOps and Cloud Optimization team, focusing on leading FinOps Engineering projects with expertisein Cloud Services, architecture, cost optimization, budgetingand forecasting.\nThe ideal candidate should have extensive experience in leading significant projects, encompassing aspects such as budgeting and forecast, cost optimization, capacityplanning, and a readiness to take charge and collaborate across the stack as per the team's requirements.\nAs a Staff Engineer, responsibilitiesinclude:\n- Demonstratinga strong grasp of cloud requirements such as cost optimization and capacityplanning, facilitatingcross-organizational partnerships for cost optimization discussions.\n- Managing and implementingoptimization and automation strategies for business processes.\n- Contributing to the creation of a comprehensive strategy to enhance savings, improve spend reporting, governance, and drive process enhancement.\n- Collaborating with business leaders, engineers, and partner teams to collect budget requirements, establishand maintain budget report using various tools, forecast the cost and relevant tasks\n- Overseeing FinOps stakeholder communications, defining FinOps KPIs for IT executives, and collaborating with Controllers/Tech Financials Controls.\n- Effectively relaying critical information to stakeholders, including senior leadership.\n- Assistingin developing the Economic Unit using business metrics to manage cloud operational expenses.\n- Providingtechnical and thought leadership across multiple stack layers, focusing on full stack web app development and ensuring UI, microservices, and backend systems integration.\n- Serving as a role model and mentor to senior and junior engineers, guiding them in system architecture, design, and implementation.\n- Maintainingclear communication with partner teams and leads, explaining technical implementations to stakeholders for alignment across teams.\n- Utilizingexperience in deploying web applications in Kubernetes (k8s) environments to ensure reliable interaction with backend services and seamless integration with cloud and on-premises systems.\nQualifications:\nDeep understanding of Cloud Services and architectures, pricing models, and billing structures that will allow the candidate to perform deep dives and complex analysis of cost trends, anomalies, identifyareas of improvement and support decision making with data driven insights\nStrong understanding of cloud-based services usage and pricing; AWS and/or Azure and Hands on cloud experience (AWS, Azure etc.)\nStrong understanding of cloud requirements, ability to partner across GEICO Tech and drive cost optimization discussions.\nCollaborate with application teams to understand their approaches and designs to optimizeperformance and costs within cloud services.\nExperiencedesigning and developing microservices using Python,Django,gRPCwith protocol buffers, Kafkaand Apache Spark with a deep understanding of both API and event-driven architectures.\nExperience:\n8+ years of experience working in FinOps Projects and understanding of FinOps concepts preferred.\n5 + years of experience in budgeting, forecasting, cost savings, and reporting using various tools.\n4+ years of experience in open-source frameworksand cloud technologies like Azure, AWS, GCP.\n3+ years of experience with cloud architecture and design including cost optimization, capacityplanning, pricing, performance tuning.\n2+ years of professional software development experience and/or solutions engineering experience with technologies such as Java, TypeScript, ReactJS, BoostrapJS, Python, Golang, Docker, Kubernetes, or Terraform.\nEducation:\nBachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience\nAnnual Salary\n$110,000.00 - $230,000.00The 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.\nGEICO will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.The GEICO Pledge:\nGreat Company: Protecting customers through life’s twists and turns with innovation and integrity.\nGreat Careers: Personalized development programs, mentorship, and certification assistance.\nGreat Culture: Inclusive and collaborative culture rooted in shared success.\nGreat Rewards: Competitive pay, benefits, and flexibility to support your well-being and future.\nThe 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.\nGEICO 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. 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