Senior Engineer - CRM CICD

GEICO is seeking an experienced 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.

Position Description:

Our Senior Engineer is a key member of the engineering staff working across the organization to provide a friction-less experience to our customers, 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 expertise in designing, building and maintaining highly secure CRM systems.

Position Responsibilities

As a Senior Engineer, you will:

• Scope, design, and build scalable, resilient distributed systems

• Build product definition and leverage your technical skills to drive towards the right solution

• Lead in design sessions and code reviews with peers to elevate the quality of engineering across the organization

• Define, create and support reusable application components/patterns from a business and technology perspective

• Utilize developer tooling and a variety of Azure tools and services across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, operations, real-time communication) to perform advanced-level Java application design, implementation and maintenance activities under minimal direction

• Mentor other engineers

• Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams

• Build and release software baselines, code merge, branch, and label creation

• Work with development teams on CI/CD and feature-flag code management procedures

• Collaborate with automated testing teams, monitoring teams, and infrastructure teams to ensure reliable deployments. Resolve dependencies and ensure that deadlines are met

• Support a continuous Integration model by streamlining the code changes, triggering an automated code build and test sequence

• Support a continuous delivery model by automating software build and package migration processes

• Create and manage automated YAML-based deployment processes for Salesforce, Java, or .NET solutions

Qualifications:

• Programming experience with at least two modern languages such as Java, C++, Python or C# including object-oriented design

• Proven understanding of micro-services oriented architecture and extensible REST APIs

• Experience building the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems

• Advanced understanding of DevOps Concepts and Cloud Architecture.

• Experience with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code

• Strong problem-solving ability

• Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment

• Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, operations, real-time communication)

• Hands-on configuration skills with code management, work item, and continuous integration tools. Microsoft DevOps experience is preferred. Skills with similar tools (TFS, GIT, Jenkins) are acceptable

• Proven experience in supporting JAVA, .NET or Salesforce development lifecycle for enterprise level applications

• Hands on knowledge of building Kubernetes CI/CD pipelines

• Demonstrated knowledge of Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) code deployment, branching, and merging strategies

• Knowledge of YAML scripting is a plus

• Ability to write and implement scripts in PowerShell, Ant, Maven or similar build and deployment languages is a plus.

• Proven ability to work collaboratively with development teams with solid verbal and written communication skills.

• Experience with Microservices, API services deployment

• Salesforce, MuleSoft and Kafka CI/CD Integration with Azure DevOps is a plus

Experience:

• 4+ years of developing and maintaining software deployment processes in a Java, .NET, or Salesforce environment

• 3+ years of experience building the architecture and design of new and current systems

• 3+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service

• 2+ years of experience with YAML scripting and PowerS