Senior Software Engineering Manager – Site Reliability Engineering

Position Summary: 

GEICO’s Site Reliability Engineering is seeking an experienced Senior manager to build and manage a new team of engineers who are passionate in building engineering solutions - tools, framework, and automation in performance, efficiency, and reliability domains. This is a newly created organization with a deep focus to enable all application teams to deliver enterprise-wide products that are highly performant, efficient, and reliable. Our workloads are spread between On-prem, Azure, and AWS and you will have exciting opportunities to solve complex problems in multi-cloud model. You can create a massive impact on our customers’ experience and Geico’s new mission towards Technology transformation. 

Position Description: 

Our Senior manager is an engineering leader who will lead members of the engineering staff working across the organization to provide a friction-less experience to our customers and maintain the highest standards of reliability 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 knowledge experience to improve application’s performance, capacity benchmarking, improve availability and reliability, design and evolve cloud/infrastructure architecture, and leverage engineering solutions to solve operational problems. 

Position Responsibilities: 

As a Senior manager, you will: 

• Collaborate with the application teams to understand their pain points around performance, efficiency, reliability and formulate strategies to address recurring issues in a sustainable way. 

• Influence and build vision with application owners to ship quality products in a faster pace. 

• Ownership of the end-to-end delivery of team strategy and execution 

• Develop and motivate teams to solve complex problems and be a strong advocate for open-source technologies and solutions. 

• Be technically hands-on in coding as well as building highly available systems. 

• Be responsible for building and mentoring a new team of software engineers  

• Drive the team towards building solutions towards the long-term goals while ensuring that high priority tech debts are solved in an efficient way. 

• Be a strong thought leader in Site Reliability engineering, Operational excellence, and Devops Principles. 

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

Qualifications: 

• Hands-on Software engineering manager with strong understanding of Site Reliability Engineering and DevOps principles. 

• Fluency with at least one modern language such as Python, Java, Go and experience with open-source software is a big plus. 

• Hands-on experience in managing infrastructure components through Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Ansible 

• Strong technical acumen in Cloud Architecture, Performance Benchmarking, Capacity planning and Reliability tools.<