Staff Engineer - Enterprise Engineering

Staff Engineer– Enterprise Engineering MDM (Mobility)

Position Summary

GEICO is seeking an experienced Staff Engineer, Enterprise Engineering 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 Staff Engineer, Enterprise Engineering is a key member of the Mobility Management platform engineering staff working across the organization to provide a friction-less experience to our customers and 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 Staff Engineer, you will:

• ​Engineer and build associate experiences for end user computing devices
• Scope, design, and build scalable, resilient distributed systems 
• ​Build product definition and leverage your technical skills to drive towards the right solution 
• ​Engage in cross-functional collaboration throughout the entire software lifecycle 
• ​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 programming languages like Bash, Python, PowerShell, or other object-oriented languages, SQL, and NoSQL databases, Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, and a variety of Azure tools and services 
• ​Mentor other engineers  
• ​Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams
• Participate in Production on-call support 

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on experience with endpoint management platforms such as Workspace ONE, Intune, SCCM, and JamF (Ivanti is a plus)
• Moderate to advanced understanding of Directory Services(both on-prem and Azure AD) and enterprise level networks
• Demonstrated experience in PowerBI
• Experience in the maintenance of virtual workstation platforms such as Citrix, VDI, and AVD (Azure Subscriptions are desired)
• Experience with management of security compliance configurations (GPOs and CSPs)
• Proven track record in automating processes and workflows in the context of User and Device management
• Strong Windows and Mac endpoint troubleshooting, including the ability to decipher logs
• Excellent comprehension, verbal, and written communication skills
• Ability to effectively communicate with various audiences (leadership, highly technical, and non-technical business partners)
• Strong PowerShell and/or Python scripting skills
• Experience with project management, including the identification of milestone, due dates, and priority
• Experience with Endpoint and Third-party application patch management
• Experience with Enterprise level documentation creation and design
• Experience with Cloud Services Administration (Azure, AWS, etc.)
• Familiarity with application monitoring and performance assessments
• ​​Advanced programming experience with at least two modern languages such as Java, Go, C++, Python, PowerShell, or C# including object-oriented design 
• ​Proven understanding of microservices oriented architecture and extensible REST APIs 
• ​Experience building the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems 
• ​Experience with monitoring tools such as Dynatrace, Thousand Eyes, Influx, Grafana or equivalents 
• Advanced understanding of DevOps concepts including Azure DevOps framework and tools 
• ​Advanced understanding of monitoring concepts and tooling 
• ​Understanding of security protocols and products: Active Directory, Windows Authentication, SAML, OAuth
• ​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)​ 
• Strong problem-solving ability 
• Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment 
• One or more of the following certifications are highly desired: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ900) and/or Microsoft 365 Fundamentals