Infrastructure Automation Engineer
About the role
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.
GEICO is seeking an experienced software engineer to work on our Infrastructure Automation Tools team to help drive our tech transformation from a traditional IT model to one focused on engineering excellence, good code and documentation hygiene, and creating resilient architectures driven by automation. This team is focused on automated tools and infrastructure as code to streamline operations on our Openstack private cloud, our network, and our hardware fleet. Managing a private cloud in an enterprise environment requires knowledge of hardware, virtualization, operating systems, and infrastructure automation.
Responsibilities
- Drive innovation of OS and firmware update strategies to ensure good testing, stability, performance, security, and remote management capabilities
- Develop tools and processes for automated testing of servers and operating system images
- Develop tools to monitor server fleet health and performance, focusing on strategic upgrades, proactive maintenance, and quick response to hardware, firmware, and detecting anomalies
- Devise and implement automation scripts and tools for a wide range of fleet management tasks using a combination of IaC (Ansible, Terraform, etc) and traditional programming languages like Python, Go, and Rust
- Work closely with our Openstack, Storage (ceph), and Hybrid Cloud teams to understand the automation needs for managing our private cloud, and understand the potential impact of OS and Firmware updates
- Develop hardware lifecycle strategies, assessing ongoing performance, cost-effectiveness, and longevity from procurement to decommissioning
- Keep a finger on the pulse of industry innovations, especially concerning CPU, chipset, storage, GPU, firmware, and BMC developments, ready to lead adaptation and advancement within our infrastructure
Requirements
- Professional development experience in one or more of: Python,