Offer summary

Qualifications:

15+ years of experience in software engineering, DevOps, or platform engineering., Expertise in Kubernetes, GitOps workflows, and CI/CD platforms., Strong understanding of Policy as Code with Open Policy Agent (OPA) and Rego., Proficiency in cloud infrastructure and Linux system administration..

Key responsabilities:

Define and drive the strategic roadmap for the Deployment and Release Platform.

Architect high-performance CI/CD frameworks and optimize platform engineering solutions.

Lead the adoption of GitOps principles and define service communication patterns.

Mentor teams and advocate for best practices in DevSecOps and Continuous Delivery.

Job description

Job Summary

GEICO is seeking a Distinguished Engineer to serve as a technical leader within the Deployment and Release Platform and Platform Engineering teams. This role is ideal for an industry expert who excels in designing and scaling continuous delivery, deployment automation, and platform engineering solutions for large-scale enterprise environments.

As a Distinguished Engineer, you will define and drive the next generation of CD pipelines, GitOps strategies, platform engineering, and release automation frameworks, ensuring high availability, performance, security, and developer productivity across the organization. You will collaborate with application teams, senior leadership, and industry partners to set technology direction, influence strategic initiatives, and implement snext-gen release platform and Platform Engineering methodologies.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role where you will guide the team in building robust, scalable, and secure platforms that empower developers, streamline deployment workflows, and enable seamless software releases at enterprise scale.

Position Responsibilities

Define and drive the strategic roadmap for GEICO’s Deployment and Release Platform and Platform Engineering, ensuring scalability, reliability, and developer efficiency.

Architect and optimize high-performance CI/CD frameworks and Platform Engineering solutions to support 3000+ engineers and enable self-service infrastructure.

Pioneer the adoption of GitOps principles using Flux, ArgoCD, and Kubernetes, enabling automated, declarative deployments.

Define Service to service communication patterns, and discoverability using Istio Service Mesh

Design and enforce deployment control gates using Policy as Code methodologies with Open Policy Agent (OPA) and Rego, ensuring secure, compliant, and auditable deployments.

Lead the adoption of cloud-native deployment patterns, and containerized workflows.

Develop platform engineering frameworks that empower developers with self-service capabilities, reducing communication confusions and accelerating software delivery.

Define best practices for monitoring, logging, tracing, and release observability using tools like Prometheus, Grafana.

Serve as a mentor, and advocate for best practices in DevSecOps, Continuous Delivery, Platform Engineering, and Cloud-Native development across GEICO and the broader engineering community.

Cross-Team Collaboration: Work with Application, CI, Security, SRE, and Observability teams to drive alignment on deployment strategies, platform engineering solutions, and software delivery automation.

Qualifications

15+ years of software engineering, DevOps, or platform engineering experience, with a deep focus on DevSecOps, CI/CD, deployment automation, platform engineering, and release engineering.

Expertise in Kubernetes, container orchestration, and GitOps workflows (ArgoCD, Helm).

Deep experience with high-scale CI/CD platforms, including GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps pipelines.

Strong understanding of Deployment Control Gates and Policy as Code with Open Policy Agent (OPA) and Rego to enforce deployment policies.

Platform Engineering expertise with experience designing self-service platforms, developer portals, and infrastructure automation.

Proficiency in Linux system administration, networking fundamentals, and cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure).

Strong understanding of observability, monitoring, and tracing for CI/CD pipelines, platform engineering solutions, and release workflows.

Proven track record of technical leadership, influencing company-wide decisions, and mentoring senior engineers.

Experience working in large-scale, distributed engineering environments with thousands of engineers.

Preferred Qualifications

Influence architecture, mentor teams, and work with cross-functional teams to establish the overall general technical direction.

Deep understanding and hands-on experience with software delivery pipelines, release versioning, distributed systems, and release orchestration

Experience with Development and DevOps platforms such as Azure DevOps, GitHub, Jenkins, etc.

Experience with progressive delivery techniques, including feature flags, canary releases, and blue/green deployments.

Prior experience in leading major DevOps and platform engineering transformation, cloud migration or open-source initiatives.

Experience designing service-to-service communication patterns, ingress/egress controls and Kubernetes traffic routing strategies using Istio Service Mesh

Annual Salary

$150,000.00 - $300,000.00

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.

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 Assistance
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.

The equal employment opportunity policy of the GEICO Companies provides for a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, familial status, disability or genetic information, in compliance with applicable federal, state and local law. GEICO hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled.

GEICO reasonably accommodates qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to receive equal employment opportunity and/or perform the essential functions of the job, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship to the Company. This applies to all applicants and associates. GEICO also provides a work environment in which each associate is able to be productive and work to the best of their ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment. We expect and require the cooperation of all associates in maintaining an atmosphere free from discrimination and harassment with mutual respect by and for all associates and applicants.

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