Staff Engineer - SRE

​​Staff Engineer – SRE 

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Position Summary  

​​GEICO is seeking an experienced Engineer with a passion for building high-performance, low maintenance, zero-downtime modern platforms, and applications.  You will help drive our Tech 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 innovation and continuous improvement.​ 

Position Description 

Our Staff Engineer is a lead member of the engineering staff working with our Manager and Engineers to innovate and build new systems, improve, and enhance existing systems and identify new opportunities to apply your knowledge to solve critical problems. You will lead the execution of a technical roadmap that will increase the velocity, safety, and security of delivering products and unlock new engineering capabilities. The ideal candidate has a deep understanding of technology, risk management, site reliability engineering principles and planning to design and implement resilient systems that safeguard our business from potential threats.  

Position Responsibilities 

​​As a Staff Engineer, you will: 

• ​​Focus on multiple areas and provide technical leadership to the organization, helping our partner teams to improve the reliability, scalability & observability of their systems.  

• ​​​Lead the design and execution of strategies to improve the reliability and resilience of business impacting products across the organization. 

• ​Collaborate with team members, partners, and other engineering teams to solve complex problems.  

• ​Be accountable for the quality and impact of the solutions. 

• ​​Utilize programming languages like Python, C#, Java or other object-oriented languages, SQL, and NoSQL databases, Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, and a variety of cloud tools and services (Azure or AWS preferred) to achieve your goals. 

• ​​Strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of your engineering team and product community through mentorship and coaching.  

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

• ​Analyze and forecast resource costs, 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. 

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Qualifications 

• ​​Experience with infrastructure automation, tooling, and configuration management frameworks.