Senior Engineer - DevOps (REMOTE)

GEICO is seeking an experienced Senior Engineer with a passion for building high performance, low-latency platforms and applications. You will help drive our insurance business transformation as we redefine experience for our customers.

At GEICO the Senior Engineer is a key member of the engineering staff working across Business Services Engineering, Data Engineering, Platform Engineering, and Infrastructure Engineering to ensure that we provide a fiction-less experience to our customers, maintain the highest standards of protection and availability. 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 has broad and deep technical knowledge, typically ranging from front-end UIs through back-end systems and all points in between.

Responsibilities & Requirements

• Experience working as an Infrastructure, Middleware, DevOps engineer on Linux, Windows Operating Systems

• Experience with installation, configuration, administration of Web Servers, Application Servers (Apache, JBoss EAP, WildFly, Apache Tomcat, IIS, Dot-Net, WebSphere)

• Automation scripting experience with a couple or more programming languages like Python, PowerShell, Linux Shell, Ansible, Puppet and knowledge on SQL queries, Java, dotNet

• Advanced hands on experience working with Terraform and Kubernetes

• Experience on configuration and administration on messaging systems – IBM MQ, ActiveMQ, Apache Kafka

• Advanced understanding of DevOps, Cloud concepts (Azure DevOps framework), experience & knowledge with Enterprise Cloud platforms, enterprise data center technologies including storage platforms, networks, security infrastructure

• Understanding of Security Protocols & Products: Active Directory, Windows Authentication, SAML, OAuth

• Collaborate, support, work with Managed cloud vendor, coordinate with GEICO teams to support daily operations, releases, Disaster Recovery exercises.

• Knowledge on DNS resolution, subnet masking, firewall concepts, processes; support & work with N/W team, Managed Cloud partner team, internal teams with the firewall requests, including providing guidance on requests and connection validations

• Determines systems software design requirements, ensures system/applications improvements are successfully implemented and monitored for better efficiency

• Support triage calls at a tier 2 level with good technical problem solving, analytical skills, logical thinking to provide resolutions to a diverse range of complex issues & ability to work independently with minimal supervision

• Understand System design architecture, design patterns of current and future systems

• Experience in analyzing, monitoring applications, systems with monitoring tools - DynaTrace, Sentry, Splunk, Grafana, Loki, similar tools.

• Advanced hands-on experience creating Grafana operational dashboards, data visualization using Grafana

• Experience with software tools - Microsoft ADO, Sharepoint, PowerBI, Helix, Confluence or similar

• Provide 24/7 operations support for …