Engineer II – Network Services (REMOTE)

Position Summary    

​​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 Engineer II is a key member of the engineering staff working across the organization to collaboratively design solutions to complex problems. 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 the ability to plan, prioritize, execute, and manage large projects to deliver network services as well as deep technical knowledge supporting Full Stack development and developer productivity platforms with a strong understanding of data structures and algorithms.  

Position Responsibilities   

​​As an Engineer II, you will:   

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

• ​Engage in cross-functional collaboration throughout the entire software lifecycle   

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

• ​Participate in design sessions and code reviews to elevate the quality of engineering across the organization  

• ​Utilize programming languages like GO, Java, Typescript, React, HTML, 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 

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

Qualifications   

• ​​Programming experience with at least one modern language such as GO, Java, C++, Python or C# including object-oriented design 

• ​Understanding of micro-services-oriented architecture and extensible REST APIs  

• Understanding of micro frontends  

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

• Experience writing highly complex YAML pipeline/workflow code in GitHub 

• Experience writing highly complex docker files or other containerization technologies such as Podman, Kaniko, containerd, etc.  

• Experience writing highly complex YAML code for containers orchestration on different compute platforms  

• ​Understanding of DevOps Concepts, Cloud Architecture and Azure DevOps Operational Framework   

• ​Intermediate PowerShell scripting skills  

• ​Experience in Datacenter structure, capabilities, and offerings, including the Azure platform and its native services