About the position
GEICO is seeking an experienced Engineer with a passion for building high-performance, secure, 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. Our Staff Engineer works with our Distinguished Engineer and Sr. Engineers to innovate and build new systems, improve, and enhance existing systems as well as identify new opportunities to apply your knowledge to solve critical problems. You will help in the delivery of high-quality products, unlocking new engineering capabilities. Additionally, you will enhance and maintain the Windows operating system images for on-prem and public clouds.
Responsibilities
- Focus on multiple areas and provide technical and thought leadership to the enterprise
- Collaborate with product managers, team members, customers, and other engineering teams to solve our toughest problems
- Develop and execute technical software development strategy for the Platform Engineering domain
- Own accountability for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions
- 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
- Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams
- Analyze cost and forecast, incorporating them into business plans
- Determine and support resource requirements, evaluate operational processes, measure outcomes to ensure desired results, demonstrate adaptability, and sponsor continuous learning
- Be the point person for developing, enhancing, and maintaining Windows operating system images for on-prem and public clouds.
Requirements
- Deep knowledge of Windows Server 2016, 2019, and 2022
- Fluent in Powershell
- Experience with creating Windows Server images for cloud environments
- Knowledge of writing and tuning autounattend.xml for automating Windows setups
- Experience with the configuration of remote management (winrm)
- Working knowledge of Active Directory and domain joining
- Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, test automation and related tools, operations, real-time communication)
- Experience in CI/CD pipeline and related open-source tools like Git/Jenkin/CircleCI/SonarQube
- Exemplary ability to design, perform experiments, and influence engineering direction and product roadmap
- Experience partnering with engineering teams and transferring research to production
- Experience solving analytical problems with quantitative approaches
- Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment
Benefits
- Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your family's overall well-being
- Financial benefits including market-competitive compensation; a 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match; performance and recognition-based incentives; and tuition assistance
- Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance
- Supports flexibility- We provide workplace flexibility as well as our GEICO Flex program, which offers the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year
