Senior Software Engineering Manager - Infrastructure Capacity and Demand

Summary:

GEICO’s Infrastructure and Capacity Planning 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 for Cloud Infrastructure. This is a newly created organization with a deep focus to enable optimal cloud capacity for all application teams to run enterprise-wide products. Our workloads are spread between On-prem, Azure, and AWS and you will have exciting opportunities to solve complex problems in Hybrid-cloud model. You can create a massive impact on our customers’ experience and Geico’s new mission towards Technology transformation.

Description:

Our Senior manager is an engineering leader who will lead members of the engineering staff working across the organization to provide a seamless experience for our customers by enabling right capacity at right time and right cost. 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 capacity planning, cloud/infrastructure architecture, and leverage engineering solutions to solve operational problems.

Responsibilities:

As a Senior manager, you will:

• Collaborate with the application teams to understand and translate their application needs to infrastructure needs.
• 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 Infrastructure & Capacity Planning, Supply Chain, Operational excellence, and DevOps Principles.
• Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams.

Qualifications:

• Hands-on Software engineering manager with strong understanding of Cloud services and DevOps principles.
• 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.

Experience:

• 6+ years of coding experience.
• 5+ years of development of tooling and engineering solution in a large-scale, mission-critical environment.
• 5+ years of hands-on work experience supervising personnel in a technical environment.
• 5+ years of experience with one of the public cloud - AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service.

Education:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience.

Benefits:

As an Associate, you’ll enjoy our Total Rewards Program * to help secure your financial future and preserve your health and well-being, including:

• Premier Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance with no waiting period**.
• Paid Vacation, Sick and Parental Leave.
• 401(k) Plan.
• Tuition Reimbursement.
• Paid Training and Licensures.

*Benefits may be different by location. Benefit eligibility requirements vary and may include length of service.

**Coverage begins on the date of hire. Must enroll in New Hire Benefits within 30 days of the date of hire for coverage to take effect.