Senior Systems Engineer

About the role

GEICO is seeking an experienced Senior Engineer to join our team. The ideal candidate will have a passion for building high-performance, low-maintenance, zero-downtime platforms and applications, and will help drive our insurance business transformation.

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

Qualifications

• Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting and observability in cloud environments
• Experience with tools like Grafana and Prometheus
• Familiarity with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
• 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
• Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Strong communication and collaboration abilities
• Experience with OpenStack administration and operations a plus
• Experience 4+ years of professional experience in cloud engineering, platform administration, or infrastructure automation
• Experience 4+ years of experience with OpenStack or similar cloud platforms
• Experience 4+ years of experience with Python and Ansible
• Experience 4+ years of experience with monitoring and observability systems
• Experience 4+ years of experience with containerization technologies
• 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

Pay

$100,000.00 - $215,000.00

Schedule

Flexible schedule available