Senior Manager, Staff SW Engineering - (Platform Engineering) - HYBRID

GEICO•Bethesda, MD

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Why Join GEICO? At GEICO, we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless possibilities. Every day we honor our iconic brand by offering quality coverage to millions of customers and being there when they need us most. We thrive on relentless innovation to exceed our customers' expectations while making a real impact on local communities nationwide. Founded in 1936, GEICO is a member of the Berkshire Hathaway family of companies and one of the largest auto insurers in the United States. When you join our company, we want you to feel valued, supported, and proud to work here. That's why we offer the GEICO Pledge: Great Company, Great Culture, Great Rewards, and Great Careers.

Requirements

Software and system design knowledge and experience
Knowledge of cloud computing technologies and concepts (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, etc.)
Knowledge of distributed systems and highly available, scalable architectures such as active/active, multimaster, in and across geo sharding, etc.
At least 5 years of experience in designing, developing, and operating enterprise file transfer platforms, developer experience platforms, or Infrastructure as Code (IaC) delivery systems.
Strong knowledge and skills in distributed systems, data structures, algorithms, and design patterns.
Proficient in one or more programming languages, such as Java, Python, C#, .NET, Go, or TypeScript.
Experience driving enterprise-wide adoption of platform engineering practices including IaC (Terraform), developer portals, SDK-based onboarding, and unified control-plane architectures.
Proven experience with secure file transfer technologies (SFTP, HTTPS), key management (PGP), compliance automation (NYDFS, PCI), and CMDB-driven certification workflows.
Experience with software development, software delivery lifecycle, application modernization, DevOps, Service/Infrastructure as Code and Operations
Basic understanding and managing CI/CD toolchain products like Git, Artifactory, Jenkins, SonarQube and IaC tools like Terraform.
Knowledge of API, Microservices, network and security architectures and design patterns
Demonstrated conflict management, decision making and negotiation skills
Proven ability to concentrate and demonstrate a capacity for learning technical concepts and adapting to new technologies quickly
Experience in application monitoring tools and performance assessments
Constructing, interpreting, and applying metrics to your work and decision making, able to use those metrics to identify correlation between drivers and results, and using that information to drive prioritization and action.
Experience 6+ years coding experience
5+ years of significant experience building scalable, fault-tolerant, and robust products and platforms
5+ years of hands-on work experience supervising 10+ personnel in a technical environment
2+ years of experience with automated testing including Unit, Integration, and End-to-End functional testing
Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology or related field, or equivalent experience

Responsibilities

Work with your senior leadership to address project dependencies, negotiate and estimate incremental delivery dates for milestones with the stakeholder community, and deliver projects on time
Lead the File Exchange Platform team responsible for GEICO's tier-1 secure file transfer service (~3M monthly transfers). Drive modernization from ticket-based operations to a self-service portal, and CMDB-driven self-certification, deliver high availability and geo-distributed resiliency across data centers, and meet NYDFS/PCI compliance and vulnerability SLAs while reducing onboarding cycle time and support burden.
Lead the UPE team that defines the paved road for PaaS service providers — Platform SDKs (Python, Go, TypeScript, Java), Platform Client UI/UX, IaC as a Service. Standardize onboarding, provisioning, deployment, and lifecycle management across public and private cloud; drive onboarding user experience; and deliver blueprint-IaC solutions for consistent, defect-free service integration.
Drive shared engineering outcomes with UCP partners — advancing UCP to a production-ready tier-1 platform with audit trails, observability-as-code, governance and FinOps integration.
Define and enforce architectural standards, guidelines, and best practices to ensure the platform meets the highest standards of performance and reliability.
Ownership of the end-to-end delivery of team strategy and platforms
Identify and raise appropriate project risks, in addition to presenting detailed and implementable solutions or alternatives
Understand how requirements and design choices may impact systems across multiple areas
Report on your team's progress for project and other key metrics, in addition to presenting detailed and implementable ideas for areas to further improve or influence product or project delivery
Initiate and support performance evaluation of team members
Cultivate a culture that motivates all levels of performers to higher levels of achievement
Build and maintain relationships with your team members to support an environment of trust
Develop the team budget and be accountable for reporting on results achieved at regular intervals
Significantly contribute to the team planning process to include surfacing associate level proposals