Geico

Staff Engineer - Capacity Planning and Management

Geico$110K — $230K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years in infrastructure or capacity engineering, particularly in hybrid cloud environments.
  • Expertise in capacity planning models and workload analysis frameworks.
  • Strong knowledge of cloud services including AWS and Azure, along with OnPrem hardware lifecycles.
  • Experience collaborating with procurement, hardware, or finance teams for infrastructure acquisition.
  • Familiarity with workload repatriation and hybrid environment management.
  • Proficient in building internal tools and APIs for operational use.
  • Strong data analysis expertise with experience in analytics platforms.

Responsibilities

  • Lead system design and implementation for cloud and OnPrem capacity forecasting.
  • Partner with teams to analyze workload characteristics and reduce infrastructure waste.
  • Develop internal tools and APIs for real-time capacity insights.
  • Design management solutions for scalable consumption of infrastructure resources.
  • Collaborate with hardware engineering on data-driven purchasing signals.
  • Support service provider onboarding with capacity insights.
  • Align capacity forecasts with financial and budget expectations.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive Total Rewards program tailored for personal well-being.
  • Market-competitive compensation with 401K plan and 6% match.
  • Incentives based on performance and recognition, plus tuition assistance.
  • Mental health support and fertility/adoption assistance offered.
  • Flexible work options, including the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks annually.
Full Job Description
GEICO is seeking a Staff Engineer - Capacity Engineering to support the buildout of core capabilities within our Capacity Management Platform. This platform is essential for enabling proactive infrastructure and cloud capacity planning across GEICO's hybrid technology landscape. The Staff Engineer will partner with Infrastructure, Cloud, Hardware Procurement, Finance, and Service Provider teams to develop and scale capacity engineering solutions that support workload repatriation, quota and subscription management, forecasting, and infrastructure demand planning. This role plays a critical part in ensuring GEICO's infrastructure is provisioned efficiently and strategically to support application onboarding, growth, and modernization efforts. This role will help establish capacity engineering as a core function that empowers infrastructure efficiency, long-term cost predictability, and service availability across GEICO's technical platforms. Position Responsibilities As a Staff Engineer, Capacity Engineering you will:
  • Lead the design and implementation of systems that enable cloud and OnPrem capacity forecasting, including planning models to support application onboarding, expansion, and repatriation.
  • Partner with application and infrastructure teams to analyze workload characteristics, optimize placement decisions, and reduce infrastructure waste through intelligent workload optimization strategies.
  • Develop and support internal tools and APIs that provide real-time and forecasted capacity signals to hardware procurement, infrastructure owners, and finance partners.
  • Design and build quota and subscription management solutions to enable fair, scalable consumption of shared infrastructure resources.
  • Collaborate with Hardware Engineering to define data-driven signals that guide purchase decisions for greenfield and brownfield environments.
  • Support the onboarding of service providers by developing capacity insights and demand management capabilities that align with platform growth expectations.
  • Partner closely with Finance, Procurement, and Cloud FinOps teams to align capacity forecasts with spend and budget expectations.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally to maintain a strong governance model for capacity consumption, allocation, and scaling practices.
  • Share best practices across teams and mentor engineers on platform scalability, cost efficiency, and operational resilience.
Qualifications
  • 8+ years of experience in infrastructure, platform, or capacity engineering in large-scale enterprise or hybrid cloud environments.
  • Demonstrated expertise in building capacity planning models, workload analysis frameworks, and forecasting pipelines for infrastructure management.
  • Strong understanding of cloud services (e.g., AWS, Azure), infrastructure provisioning workflows, and OnPrem hardware life cycles.
  • Experience working closely with procurement, hardware, or finance teams to guide infrastructure acquisition based on forecasted demand.
  • Familiarity with workload repatriation, application migration strategies, and hybrid environment management.
  • Experience building internal tools and APIs for consumption by engineering or operations teams.
  • Strong data analysis background with experience in data pipelines, dashboards, or analytics platforms for infrastructure and utilization insights.
  • Excellent collaboration and communication skills; able to influence cross-functional stakeholders at varying levels of technical and business expertise.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience with FinOps principles, cloud cost optimization, or cloud spend forecasting.
  • Familiarity with enterprise quota management systems or internal subscription modeling.
  • Knowledge of infrastructure telemetry systems and service ownership models.
  • Prior experience supporting hardware procurement or platform growth strategies in a regulated environment. #Li-RP2
Annual Salary $110,000.00 - $230,000.00 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. GEICO will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.

About Geico

GEICO (Government Employees Insurance Company) is an American auto insurance company with headquarters in Chevy Chase, Maryland. It is the second largest auto insurer in the United States, after State Farm. GEICO is a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway that provides coverage for more than 24 million motor vehicles owned by more than 15 million policy holders as of 2017. GEICO writes private passenger automobile insurance in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. The insurance agency sells policies through local agents, called GEICO Field Representatives, and over the phone directly to the consumer, and through their website.
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