Senior Staff Engineer – Performance and Observability

GEICO • Richardson, TX

3d • Remote

About The Position

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 through relentless innovation to exceed our customers’ expectations while making a real impact for our company through our shared purpose. 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. 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.

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 f or 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
• GEICO Flex program, which offers the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior