GEICO is seeking an experienced Principal Engineer with a passion for building high-performance, low maintenance, zero-downtime platforms. 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
Position Description
Our Principal 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 are a lead member of the engineering staff working across the organization to ensure that we provide friction-less experience to our customers and maintain the highest standards of protection and availability. Our team thrives and succeeds in delivering high-quality technology products and services in a hyper-growth environment where priorities shift quickly. You will lead Strategy and Execution of a technical roadmap that will increase the velocity of delivering products and unlock new engineering capabilities.
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Position Responsibilities
As a Principal Engineer I, you will: 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 Accountable 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 Willing to take on-call and operation support
Qualifications
Lead the design, implementation and administration of middleware infrastructure including WebServers, Application Servers, Messaging on Apache Tomcat, Jboss, IBM MQ, AMQ, Apache Kafka, Dot-Net, API gateways, Kubernetes other complex engineering technologies on Linux, Windows OS.
Drive the implementation of DevOps practices, tools and automation to streamline the SDLC, deployment process and infrastructure management
Advanced experience of DevOps, Cloud concepts (Azure DevOps framework), knowledge with Enterprise Cloud platforms, Enterprise datacenter technologies including storage platforms, networks, security infrastructure
Strong automation hands on scripting skills with at least a couple or more programming languages Puppet, PowerShell, Linux Shell, Python, Ansible and with knowledge on Java, Dot-Net, SQL
Experience with management of configurations, provisioning of infrastructure resources using infrastructure-as-code tools, techniques with Ansible Automation Platform, Puppet or similar
Ensure high availability and scalability of applications, infrastructure by implementing monitoring, alerting solutions with monitoring tools like Dynatrace, Splunk, Loki, Grafana or similar tools to detect and resolve issues
Advanced hands-on experience creating Grafana operational dashboards, data visualization using Grafana is required
Strong expertise with DevOps KPIs, configurable monitoring dashboards to monitor trends, metrics, progress, workflow
Ability to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, conduct capacity planning and implement performance testing, optimization strategies
As a principal engineer you would have to drive initiatives to improve system stability, reliability by implementing SRE principles, incident response, post-mortem, disaster recovery, chaos engineering.
Ensure security compliance of middleware systems by implementing best practices, accessing vulnerability as recommended by Cybersecurity team and understanding of security protocols
Collaborate with all the IT teams including but not limited to developers, system & network admins, dbas, infrastructure/operational, security teams for continuous support and improvement
Experience in project management working across with IT teams on project requirements, set goals and ensure their successful executions
Working experience with agile teams following Scrum and/or Kanban methodology
Provide technical leadership, mentorship, coaching to the IT teams promoting professional knowledge sharing.
Experience on strong problem solving, analytical skills to triage complex technical issues
Experience with software tools - Microsoft ADO, Sharepoint, PowerBI, Helix, Confluence or similar
Provide 24/7 operations support for production, other critical environments, DevOps multi-tasking and with clear communication skills.
Establish and employ continuous integration practices and tools.
Experience
6+ years of professional experience in software development, platform architecture, administration, governance, infrastructure management, installation, and maintenance of the hardware, software, and network systems
4+ years of experience in open-source frameworks
3+ years of experience with architecture and design
3+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or hybrid data center
1+ years of people management experience
Education
Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience
GEICO will consider sponsoring a new qualified 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 Reimbursement
- Paid Training and Licensures
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.