Hybrid Senior Staff Engineer, Software Engineering – CICD, DevOps, Change Management

at GEICO

• Job title: Senior Staff Engineer, Software Engineering – CICD, DevOps, Change Management
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $130,000 - $260,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Azure, Cloud, Docker, Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, NoSQL, Python, SQL
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Chevy Chase, United States

About the role

• Senior Staff Engineer innovating and building new systems while leading technical strategy at GEICO. Collaborating across teams to enhance existing systems and implement best practices.

Responsibilities

• Focus on multiple areas and provide technical and thought leadership to the enterprise
• Collaborate with product managers, team members, customers, and other engineering teams to solve our toughest problems
• Develop and execute technical software development strategy for a variety of domains
• Accountable for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions
• 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
• Be a role model and mentor, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community.
• Influence and educate executives
• Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams
• Analyze cost and forecast, incorporating them into business plans
• Determine and support resource requirements, evaluate operational processes, measure outcomes to ensure desired results, and demonstrate adaptability and sponsoring continuous learning

Requirements

• 10+ years of professional DevOps experience
• 5+ years of leading a CICDCT and IaC initiatives
• 8+ years of experience with architecture and design
• 6+ years of experience in open-source frameworks
• 4+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service
• 8+ years of experience in leadership position
• 6+ years coding experience
• 5+ years of development in a large-scale, mission-critical environment
• 5+ years of hands-on work experience coaching and mentor personnel in a technical environment
• 5+ years of experience with one of the public cloud - AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service
• 5+ years' experience with automated testing including Unit, Integration, and End-to-End functional testing
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience

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.