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Senior Engineer - DevOps

GEICO

Chevy Chase, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 15 Jul 2024

About the role

Come reimagine insurance with us!

Senior Engineer – DevOps

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 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 and passionate about applying DevOps concepts daily in their role as a DevOps engineer with strong infrastructure knowledge on Azure DevOps, Kubernetes, PowerShell, provisioning / deployment automation, and development knowledge on .NET and ASP .NET.

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 programming languages like 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
Utilize developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, operations, real-time communication) to perform advanced-level Mobile/Web/UI design, implementation, and maintenance activities under minimal direction 
Work with Cloud managed partner team and GEICO teams on day-to-day activities to support GEICO Claims operations
Support and work with multiple partner and internal teams with the firewall requests, including providing guidance on requests and connection validations
Employ continuous delivery patterns and collaboratively work with developers to achieve successful continuous delivery solutions
Establish and employ continuous integration practices and tools
Build resilient services for extending and improving DevOps capabilities
Engage in cross-functional collaboration throughout the entire software lifecycle
Support triage calls at a tier 2 level with good technical problem solving, analytical skills, and logical thinking to provide resolutions to a diverse range of complex issues
Provide 24/7 operations support for production, other critical environments, DevOps multi-tasking and with clear communication skills
Collaborate, support, and work with managed cloud vendor
Coordinate with GEICO teams to support daily operations, releases, and disaster recovery exercises
Maintain and test on a regular basis our DRP / multi-regions high-availability systems.
Provide operational support on Commercial services portfolio and troubleshoot across multiple applications (L3 and higher)
Represent the team and provide excellent 24x7 support on an on-call rotational basis
Determine systems software design requirements, ensure system/applications improvements are successfully implemented and monitored for better efficiency
Mentor other engineers  
Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams