Senior Staff Engineering Manager, FinOps, Capacity Management & Infrastructure (REMOTE)

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 through relentless innovation to exceed our customers’ expectations while making a real impact for our company through our shared purpose. 

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.

Position Summary: 

GEICO is seeking an experienced Senior manager to build and manage a new team of engineers who are passionate in building engineering solutions - tools, framework, and automation in
planning domains. This role will have opportunity to enable all application teams to deliver enterprise-wide products that are highly performant, efficient, and reliable. Our workloads are spread between On-prem, Azure, and AWS and you will have exciting opportunities to solve complex problems in multi-cloud model. You can create a massive impact on our customers’ experience and Geico’s new mission towards Technology transformation. 

Position Description: 

Our Senior manager is an engineering leader who will lead members of the engineering staff working across the organization to provide a friction-less experience to our customers and maintain the highest standards of reliability 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 experience to improve application’s performance, capacity benchmarking, improve availability and reliability, design and evolve cloud/infrastructure architecture, and leverage engineering solutions to solve operational problems. 

Position Responsibilities: 

As a Senior manager, you will: 

·Collaborate with the application teams to understand their pain points around performance, efficiency, reliability and formulate strategies to address recurring issues in a sustainable way. 

·Influence and build vision with application owners to ship quality products in a faster pace. 

·Ownership of the end-to-end delivery of team strategy and execution 

·Develop and motivate teams to solve complex problems and be a strong advocate for open-source technologies and solutions. 

·Be technically hands-on in coding as well as building highly available systems. 

·Be responsible for building and mentoring a new team of software engineers  

·Drive the team towards building solutions towards the long-term goals while ensuring that high priority tech debts are solved in an efficient way. 

·Be a strong thought leader in Site Reliability engineering, Operational excellence, and Devops Principles. 

·Drive workload and cost optimization opportunities.

·Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams. 
 

Qualifications: 

·Hands-on Software engineering manager with strong understanding of Capacity and Infra structure Engineering, FinOps Engineering. 

·Fluency with at least one modern language such as Python, Java, Go and experience with open-source software is a big plus. 

·Hands-on experience in managing infrastructure components through Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Ansible 

·Strong technical acumen in Cloud Architecture, Performance Benchmarking, Capacity planning and Reliability tools. 

·Expert in Container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes), container runtimes and OS (Operating System) optimization. 

·Experience in Observability platforms, application monitoring tools and performance analysis techniques. 

·Experience managing & growing technical leaders and teams. 

·In-depth knowledge of data structures and algorithms. 
Required qualifications and experience:
-Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field required
-10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including software development lifecycle best practices
-5+ years of development in a large-scale, mission-critical environment
-5+ years of hands-on work experience supervising personnel in a technical environment
-2+ years' experience with automated testing including Unit, Integration, and End-to-End functional testing
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Annual Salary

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.

The GEICO Pledge:

Great Company: At GEICO, we help our customers through life’s twists and turns. Our mission is to protect people when they need it most and we’re constantly evolving to stay ahead of their needs.

We’re an iconic brand that thrives on innovation, exceeding our customers’ expectations and enabling our collective success. From day one, you’ll take on exciting challenges that help you grow and collaborate with dynamic teams who want to make a positive impact on people’s lives.

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.

Great Culture: 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 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.

Great Rewards: We offer compensation and benefits built to enhance your physical well-being, mental and emotional health and financial future.

• Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your family’s overall well-being.
• Financial benefits including market-competitive compensation; a 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match; performance and recognition-based incentives; and tuition assistance.
• Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance.
• Supports flexibility- We provide workplace flexibility as well as our GEICO Flex program, which offers the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year.

The equal employment opportunity policy of the GEICO Companies provides for a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, familial status, disability or genetic information, in compliance with applicable federal, state and local law. GEICO hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled.

GEICO reasonably accommodates qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to receive equal employment opportunity and/or perform the essential functions of the job, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship to the Company. This applies to all applicants and associates. GEICO also provides a work environment in which each associate is able to be productive and work to the best of their ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment. We expect and require the cooperation of all associates in maintaining an atmosphere free from discrimination and harassment with mutual respect by and for all associates and applicants.