Senior Network Engineer

About the Role

GEICO is seeking an experienced 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.

Position Description

Our Senior Engineer is a key member of the engineering staff working across the organization to collaboratively design creative solutions to complex problems using automation. Our team thrives and succeeds in delivering high-quality technology products and services in a hyper-growth environment where priorities shift quickly. The ideal candidate can plan, prioritize, execute, and manage large projects to deliver enterprise network services.

Responsibilities

• Design, test, and promote network services and platform automation solutions using DevOps and CICD practices
• Publish documentation sets for runbooks, as-built, and design reference
• Develop and maintain processes and workflows using automation to improve quality and efficiency
• Leverage network management platforms and practices to run large-scale deployments efficiently and effectively
• Understand and promote network standards, reference architectures, and frameworks
• Develop and maintain strategic roadmaps for network platforms and services
• Support, operate, and maintain large scale, critical network environment, platforms, and services
• Triage, analyze, and perform root cause analysis for network automation related issues
• Provide 24x7 after hours on-call support and support for off-hour network automation implementations

Qualifications

• Knowledge of common application architectures and communications protocols
• Understanding of programming and scripting languages such as Python, Golang, Bash and PowerShell
• Proficient using automation tools like Ansible, Terraform, Nautobot, etc.
• Experience using Linux
• Proficient with container technologies like Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, etc.
• Ability to work with nested data structures like JSON, XML, YAML
• Ability to work with APIs and database query languages such as SQL
• Familiarity with full stack network infrastructure functions including, but not limited to, switching, routing, IPAM, ADCs, and network controllers
• Knowledge of common network architectures and communications protocols is desired
• Understanding of network security principles and best practices is desired
• Ability to perform advanced packet and/or protocol analysis throughout the seven-layer OSI reference model is desired

Pay

$75,000.00 - $215,000.00 annually

Schedule

24x7 after hours on-call support and off-hour implementation support required