Senior Staff Engineer – Performance and Observability
About The Position
GEICO is seeking an experienced Senior Staff 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 Senior Staff Engineer works with our Distinguished Engineer and Staff Engineers to design, deploy, and maintain OpenStack-based environments. You will help lead the automation of cloud operations, support containerization initiatives, and help optimize our CI/CD pipelines. The ideal candidate has expertise in monitoring and observability stacks, Python or similar languages, infrastructure deployment automation, and containerization technologies. Experience with OpenStack is preferred, but additional experience in other required areas may offset.
Requirements
- Strong experience with monitoring, logging, alerting and observability in cloud environments
- Deep familiarity with tools like Grafana and Promethius
- Experience with performance tuning
- Proficiency in Python programming and scripting
- Strong experience with Ansible for automation and configuration management
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools and workflows (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD)
- Proficiency in Python programming or scripting
- Good understanding of networking and security best practices in cloud deployments
- Experience with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
- Experience with infrastructure as code and deployment automation
- Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
- Strong communication and collaboration abilities
- 8+ years of professional experience in cloud engineering, platform administration, or infrastructure automation
- 8+ years of experience with OpenStack or similar cloud platforms
- 8+ years of experience with Python and Ansible
- 8+ years of experience with CI/CD systems and containerization technologies
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience
Nice To Haves
- Experience with OpenStack administration and operations preferred
- Experience with hybrid or multi-cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure, or on-premises) is a plus
- Experience with low level virtualization technologies (QEMU/libvirt) is a plus
Responsibilities
- Improve on monitoring, observability and performance of deployed systems
- Design, deploy, and manage OpenStack-based cloud environments
- Develop and maintain automation scripts and playbooks using Python, Ansible, and GitHub Workflows
- Implement and optimize CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application delivery
- Support containerization initiatives (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues in cloud and automation workflows
- Collaborate with development, operations, and security teams
- Share best practices and improve processes within and across teams
- Participate in on-call and operational support as needed
- Mentor junior engineers
Benefits
- 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match
- Performance and recognition-based incentives
- Tuition assistance
- Mental healthcare
- Fertility and adoption assistance
- Workplace flexibility
- Ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
Associate degree
