Senior Engineer – SRE CI/CD

At GEICO, we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless possibilities. 

Every day we honor our iconic brand by offering quality coverage to millions of customers and being there when they need us most. We thrive through relentless innovation to exceed our customers’ expectations while making a real impact for our company through our shared purpose. 

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.

Position Summary

GEICO is seeking an experienced Senior 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 knowledge, typically ranging from front-end UIs through back-end systems and all points in between.

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 Java, .NET, or Python solutions

Qualifications

• Advanced 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

• 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 (GIT, Jenkins) are acceptable

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

• 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

• Experience with Microservices, API services deployment

• Proven ability to work collaboratively with