GEICO is seeking an experienced Senior Staff 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 Staff Engineer works with our Distinguished Engineer and Staff Engineers to design, deploy, and maintain OpenStack-based environments. You will help lead the automation of cloud operations, support containerization initiatives, and help optimize our CI/CD pipelines. The ideal candidate has expertise in monitoring and observability stacks, Python or similar languages, infrastructure deployment automation, and containerization technologies. Experience with OpenStack is preferred, but additional experience in other required areas may offset. Position Responsibilities As a Senior Staff Engineer, you will: • 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 • Mentor junior engineers Qualifications • Strong experience with monitoring, logging, alerting and observability in cloud environments • Experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting in cloud environments • Deep familiarity with tools like Grafana and Promethius • Experience with performance tuning • Proficiency in Python programming and scripting • Experience with OpenStack administration and operations preferred • Strong experience with Ansible f or 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 • Experience with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) • Experience with infrastructure as code and deployment automation • Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills • Strong communication and collaboration abilities Experience • 8+ years of professional experience in cloud engineering, platform administration, or infrastructure automation • 8+ years of experience with OpenStack or similar cloud platforms • 8+ years of experience with Python and Ansible • 8+ years of experience with CI/CD systems and 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 Education Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience #LI-RP2 Annual Salary $110,000.00 - $260,000.00 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. At this time, GEICO will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.