Senior Systems Engineer
About the role
Why Join GEICO? 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 Senior 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. Our Senior Engineer works with our Distinguished Engineer and Staff Engineers to design, deploy, and maintain OpenStack-based environments. You will help lead improve and expand the observability, performance and operability of our private cloud deployments.
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