Senior Engineer, Site Reliability

Senior Engineer, Site Reliability 

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Position Summary  

​​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 SRE works with our Manager, Distinguished and Staff Engineers to innovate and build new systems, improve, and enhance existing systems and identify new opportunities to apply your knowledge to solve critical problems. You will lead the execution of a technical roadmap that will increase the velocity of delivering products and unlock new engineering capabilities. The ideal candidate has a deep understanding of technology, risk management, site reliability engineering principles and strategic planning to design and implement resilient systems that safeguard our business from potential threats. 

Position Responsibilities 

​​As an SRE, you will: 

• ​Drive the overall strategy for the organization, aligning it with the organization's business goals and objectives 

• ​Provide thought leadership in the organization, staying ahead of industry trends and emerging technologies to enhance the reliability of our services. 

• ​Conduct comprehensive risk assessments to identify potential threats and vulnerabilities 

• ​Design and implement robust strategies to ensure data safety, integrity, and correctness  

• ​Lead the design and architecture of resilient and scalable systems, considering both on-premises and cloud-based solutions 

• ​Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate data safeguard best practices into the development and deployment processes 

• ​Develop and maintain comprehensive incident response plans to address various disaster scenarios on our backup/restore systems 

• ​Conduct regular simulations and drills to ensure the readiness of the organization in the event  

​of a disaster 

• ​Hands-on software engineering and SDLC best practices (Technical Review Documents, Architecture, Software Development, Software Reviews, Testing, Production Readiness Reviews, among others) 

• ​Evaluate, select, and implement cutting-edge technologies and tools to enhance our data safeguard capabilities including but not limited to processes, compliance, and visibility 

• ​Stay current with industry best practices and emerging technologies to continuously improve our data safeguard capabilities 

• ​Work closely with executive leadership, IT teams, and other stakeholders to communicate the importance of data safeguarding and foster a culture of resilience 

• ​Act as a trusted advisor, providing guidance on best practices managing and securing our data,  to technical and non-technical stakeholders 

• ​Be a role model and mentor, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community 

• ​Influence and educate executives 

• ​Analyze cost and forecast 

• ​Determine and support resource requirements, evaluate operational processes, measure outcomes to ensure desired results, and demonstrate adaptability and sponsoring continuous learning 

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Qualifications 

• Deep knowledge of SRE practices, methodologies, and principles, along with a solid understanding of on prem and public cloud-based network, compute, and storage technologies 

• ​​Fluency and specialization in software development and best practices using modern programming languages such as Go and Python  

• ​Understanding of SQL and NoSQL databases, including stateful services management and storage 

• ​Understanding of networking, caches, key/value stores, load balancing, global load balancing, queues, DNS and CDN 

• ​In-depth knowledge of hybrid cloud architecture, IaaS and PaaS technologies, container orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes), cloud efficiency and observability etc. 

• ​Strong background in incident management 

• ​Ability to create incident response playbooks, runbooks, incident triaging strategies, and post-incident analysis to drive continuous improvement in system reliability and availability 

• ​Experience with open-source management and monitoring tools 

• ​Experience with infrastructure automation, tooling, and configuration management frameworks (e.g., Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Pulumi, Terraform, etc.) 

• ​Familiarity with cloud security best practices and compliance standards 

• ​Excellent leadership skills with a passion for mentoring and fostering professional growth 

• ​Detail-oriented and a drive for operational excellence 

• ​Visionary thinker with the ability to anticipate future challenges and opportunities 

• ​Excellent communication skills 

• ​Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities 

• ​Proven track record of successfully leading and building software in large and complex organizations​ 

Experience 

• ​​4+ years of professional experience in software development, platform architecture, administration and maintenance of software, and its ecosystem  

• ​3+ years of experience with architecture and design  

• ​3+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or hybrid data center  

• ​2+ years of experience in open-source frameworks ​ 

Education 

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience