Senior Systems Engineer

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 continuousimprovement.

PositionDescription
Our Senior Engineer works with our Distinguished Engineer and Staff Engineers to design, deploy, andmaintainOpenStack-based environments. You will help leadimprove and expandtheobservability,performanceandoperability ofour private cloud deploymentsThe ideal candidate hasexpertiseinmonitoring and observability stacks, Python or similar languages, infrastructure deployment automation, and containerizationtechnologies.Experiencewith OpenStack is also a plus.

PositionResponsibilities
As a Senior Engineer, you will:

• Improve onmonitoring,observabilityand performance of deployed systems

• Design, deploy, and manage OpenStack-based cloud environments

• Develop andmaintainautomation scripts and playbooks using Python, Ansible, and GitHub Workflows

• Implement andoptimizeCI/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

Qualifications

• Experience with monitoring, logging,alertingand observability in cloud environments

• Experience withtools like Grafana and Promethius

• Experience with performance tuning

• Familiarity with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)

• Strong experience with Ansible for automation and configuration management

• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools and workflows (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions,ArgoCD)

• Proficiencyin Python programmingorscripting

• Good understanding of networking and security best practices in cloud deployments

• Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills

• Strong communicationand collaboration abilities

• Experience with OpenStack administration and operations aplus

Experience

• 4+ years of professional experience in cloud engineering, platform administration, or infrastructure automation

• 4+ years of experience with OpenStack or similar cloud platforms

• 4+ years of experience with Python and Ansible

• 4+ years of experience withmonitoring and observabilitysystems

• 4+ years of experience withcontainerization technologies

• Experience with hybrid or multi-cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure, oron-premises) is a plus

• Experience with low level virtualization technologies (QEMU/libvirt) is a plus

Education

Bachelorsdegree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience

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