Senior Engineer, Hybrid Cloud Fabric

About the role

Become a key player in GEICO's tech transformation! We are seeking a Senior or Staff Engineer with deep expertise in service mesh technologies to help implement modern, scalable, and secure communication fabric across our hybrid cloud environment. You will play a vital role in enabling seamless and secure communication between services, enhancing observability, and ensuring high availability and performance for our applications.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement a robust service mesh architecture, encompassing traffic management, security, observability, and resilience for microservices across public and private clouds within our on-premises data centers.
• Integrate the service mesh with existing infrastructure and applications, ensuring seamless operation and interoperability with various platforms and technologies, including legacy systems.
• Establish and enforce service mesh best practices, including security policies, traffic routing rules, circuit breakers, and access control mechanisms, to maintain a secure and reliable application environment.
• Develop comprehensive monitoring and observability dashboards to provide deep insights into service mesh health, performance, and potential issues, enabling proactive problem identification and resolution.
• Guide and mentor engineers on service mesh principles and best practices, fostering knowledge sharing and expertise development within the team, empowering them to contribute effectively to the service mesh implementation.
• Partner with SREs to establish service mesh observability, monitoring, and alerting strategies for maintaining high availability and performance, collaborating to define SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets.
• Actively engage with the Istio community, contribute to open-source projects, and represent GEICO's leadership in service mesh adoption.

Requirements

• 4+ years of professional experience in software engineering, DevOps, or related fields.
• 4+ years of experience designing, implementing, and managing microservices architectures.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience with Istio and service mesh technologies.
• Experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration platforms.
• Proven ability to lead technical projects and mentor other engineers.

Qualifications

• Service mesh expertise (dev): Familiarity with mesh architecture, components, and configuration options, including advanced traffic management, security policies, and telemetry customization.
• Service mesh experience (ops): Design, implementation, and management of service mesh solutions at scale, addressing challenges related to performance, security, and observability.
• Programming skills: Experience with Go is a must; Rust is a bonus.
• Linux OS: In-depth knowledge of Linux operating systems, including performance tuning, troubleshooting, and security best practices.
• Networking: Advanced understanding of networking concepts and tools (e.g., iptables, netfilter, traffic shaping) for analyzing and optimizing service mesh performance within the hybrid cloud environment.
• Kubernetes and containerization: Extensive experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration platforms, including networking, security, and service management.
• Microservices architecture: Deep understanding of microservices design patterns, service discovery mechanisms, API gateways, and distributed tracing.
• Observability and monitoring: Expertise in tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, and Kiali to monitor service mesh performance and troubleshoot issues.
• Security best practices: Knowledge of zero-trust security principles, authentication and authorization mechanisms, and encryption technologies within the context of service mesh.
• Networking and security integration: Knowledge of network protocols, security policies, and best practices for integrating the service mesh with on-premises infrastructure.
• SRE practices for service mesh: Understanding of SRE principles and experience applying them to service mesh environments for reliability and performance optimization.

Skills

• Service mesh expertise (dev)
• Service mesh experience (ops)
• Programming skills (Go, Rust)
• Linux OS (performance tuning, troubleshooting, security best practices)
• Networking (iptables, netfilter, traffic shaping)
• Kubernetes and container orchestration platforms (networking, security, service management)
• Microservices architecture (design patterns, service discovery mechanisms, API gateways, distributed tracing)
• Observability and monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, Kiali)
• Security best practices (zero-trust security principles, authentication and authorization mechanisms, encryption technologies)
• Networking and security integration (network protocols, security policies, best practices)
• SRE practices for service mesh (SRE principles, reliability and performance optimization)

Benefits

The GEICO Pledge: Great Company, Great Culture, Great Rewards and Great Careers. We offer a career where you can learn, grow, and thrive through personalized development programs, created with your career – and your potential – in mind. You’ll have access to industry leading training, certification assistance, career mentorship and coaching with supportive leaders at all levels. We foster an inclusive culture of shared success, rooted in integrity, a bias for action and a winning mindset. Grounded by our core values, we have an established culture of caring, inclusion, and belonging, that values different perspectives. Our teams are led by dynamic, multi-faceted teams led by supportive leaders, driven by performance excellence and unified under a shared purpose. As part of our culture, we also offer employee engagement and recognition programs that reward the positive impact our work makes on the lives of our customers.

Pay

$100,000.00 - $215,000.00 The above annual salary range is a general guideline. Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final hourly rate/ annual salary to be offered to the selected candidate. Factors include, but are not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the role, the selected candidate’s work experience, education and training, the work location as well as market and business considerations.

Schedule

Not specified.