Distinguished Engineer - Qualification & Delivery - Release Platform

Geico Insurance•Chevy Chase, MD

39d•$140,000 - $300,000

About The Position

GEICO is seeking a Distinguished Engineer to serve as a technical leader within the Deployment and Release Platform and Platform Engineering teams. This role is ideal for an industry expert who excels in designing and scaling continuous delivery, deployment automation, and platform engineering solutions for large-scale enterprise environments. As a Distinguished Engineer, you will define and drive the next generation of CD pipelines, GitOps strategies, platform engineering, and release automation frameworks, ensuring high availability, performance, security, and developer productivity across the organization. You will collaborate with application teams, senior leadership, and industry partners to set technology direction, influence strategic initiatives, and implement snext-gen release platform and Platform Engineering methodologies. This is a hands-on technical leadership role where you will guide the team in building robust, scalable, and secure platforms that empower developers, streamline deployment workflows, and enable seamless software releases at enterprise scale.

Requirements

15+ years of software engineering, DevOps, or platform engineering experience, with a deep focus on DevSecOps, CI/CD, deployment automation, platform engineering, and release engineering.
Expertise in Kubernetes, container orchestration, and GitOps workflows (ArgoCD, Helm).
Deep experience with high-scale CI/CD platforms, including GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps pipelines.
Strong understanding of Deployment Control Gates and Policy as Code with Open Policy Agent (OPA) and Rego to enforce deployment policies.
Platform Engineering expertise with experience designing self-service platforms, developer portals, and infrastructure automation.
Proficiency in Linux system administration, networking fundamentals, and cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure).
Strong understanding of observability, monitoring, and tracing for CI/CD pipelines, platform engineering solutions, and release workflows.
Proven track record of technical leadership, influencing company-wide decisions, and mentoring senior engineers.
Experience working in large-scale, distributed engineering environments with thousands of engineers.

Nice To Haves

Influence architecture, mentor teams, and work with cross-functional teams to establish the overall general technical direction.
Deep understanding and hands-on experience with software delivery pipelines, release versioning, distributed systems, and release orchestration
Experience with Development and DevOps platforms such as Azure DevOps, GitHub, Jenkins, etc.
Experience with progressive delivery techniques, including feature flags, canary releases, and blue/green deployments.
Prior experience in leading major DevOps and platform engineering transformation, cloud migration or open-source initiatives.
Experience designing service-to-service communication patterns, ingress/egress controls and Kubernetes traffic routing strategies using Istio Service Mesh

Responsibilities

Define and drive the strategic roadmap for GEICO's Deployment and Release Platform and Platform Engineering, ensuring scalability, reliability, and developer efficiency.
Architect and optimize high-performance CI/CD frameworks and Platform Engineering solutions to support 3000+ engineers and enable self-service infrastructure.
Pioneer the adoption of GitOps principles using Flux, ArgoCD, and Kubernetes, enabling automated, declarative deployments.
Define Service to service communication patterns, and discoverability using Istio Service Mesh
Design and enforce deployment control gates using Policy as Code methodologies with Open Policy Agent (OPA) and Rego, ensuring secure, compliant, and auditable deployments.
Lead the adoption of cloud-native deployment patterns, and containerized workflows.
Develop platform engineering frameworks that empower developers with self-service capabilities, reducing communication confusions and accelerating software delivery.
Define best practices for monitoring, logging, tracing, and release observability using tools like Prometheus, Grafana.
Serve as a mentor, and advocate for best practices in DevSecOps, Continuous Delivery, Platform Engineering, and Cloud-Native development across GEICO and the broader engineering community.
Cross-Team Collaboration: Work with Application, CI, Security, SRE, and Observability teams to drive alignment on deployment strategies, platform engineering solutions, and software delivery automation.

Benefits

Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your family's overall well-being.
Financial benefits including market-competitive compensation; a 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match; performance and recognition-based incentives; and tuition assistance.
Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance.
Supports flexibility- We provide workplace flexibility as well as our GEICO Flex program, which offers the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year.

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