Staff Software Engineer - IaaS (Hybrid Cloud) REMOTE

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.

Our Staff Engineer works with Distinguished and Senior Engineers to innovate and build new systems, improve, and enhance existing systems as well as identify new opportunities to apply your knowledge to solve critical problems. You will lead the strategy and execution of a technical roadmap that will increase the velocity of delivering products and unlock new engineering capabilities.

The ideal candidate has experience building common integrations in a multi-cloud environment and collaborates closely with Engineering organizations to modernize the way we manage, govern, and support our hybrid cloud infrastructure.

Position Responsibilities

 As a Staff Engineer, you will:

• Focus on multiple areas and provide technical and thought leadership to the enterprise

• Collaborate with product managers, team members, customers, and other engineering teams to solve our toughest problems

• Develop and execute technical software development strategy for the Platform Engineering domain

• Own accountability for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions

• Be a role model and mentor, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community. Influence and educate executives

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

• Analyze cost and forecast, incorporating them into business plans

• Determine and support resource requirements, evaluate operational processes, measure outcomes to ensure desired results, demonstrate adaptability, and sponsor continuous learning

• Play a key role in the adoption of Azure/AWS/Public Cloud offerings in the enterprise, specifically provide guidance and/or recommendations for landing zone Architecture, RBAC, Managed Identity, and network specific requirements

• Take on-call and operation support

Minimum Qualifications
· Strong experience in developing simple solutions to complex problems, driving our engineering and cloud automation for networking resources such as VNet/Subnet/NSG/Firewall, VWAN, DNS, and Infoblox across multiple clouds (Azure/AWS)
· Working knowledge of networking concepts (DNS/DHCP/Firewalls/Sub-netting, etc.)

· Experience evaluating, designing, implementing, optimizing, and documenting a comprehensive and extensive array of Cloud security technologies and processes.

· Strong experience on common policy as code tools including Puppet, Chef, Open Policy Agent, and more

· Good knowledge for some of the languages: C, C# or other object-oriented languages, Go Lang, Python, Perl, Ruby, JavaScript, shell script, Powershell etc.
· Experience in CI/CD pipeline and related open-source tools like GIT/Jenkin/CircleCI/SonarQube

· Expert in designing and implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions to manage Cloud resources using Terraform
· Experience with technical software development for Platform Engineering domain
· Experience with CI/CD automation
· Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment

Preferred Qualifications

· Experience partnering with engineering teams and transferring research to production
· Track-record of publications history in credible conferences and journals
· Experience with Go open-source programming language is a plus
· Expertise in Azure Functions, Azure Web Apps, and AWS Lambda
· In-depth knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms
· Experience with C# and .NET programing

· Exemplary ability to design, perform experiments, and influence engineering direction and product roadmap

· Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, test automation and r