GEICO · 4 hours ago
Senior Platform Engineer
Chevy Chase, MD
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
$100K/yr - $230K/yr
4+ years expGEICO is a well-known insurance company that values innovation and customer service. They are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to build and maintain their data ecosystem, focusing on cloud infrastructure, application support, and security compliance.
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Responsibilities
Building, maintaining, and providing support for the data ecosystem
Operating discovery tools, analyzing findings, validating results, prioritizing remediation, and scripting automations
Partnering closely with infrastructure, platform, and security operations teams to mitigate potential exposure risks
Mentoring team members and providing direction and feedback during design/topology reviews
Supporting application onboarding, infrastructure provisioning, and onboarding of new PaaS/SaaS services in the cloud
Providing full application & infrastructure development lifecycle support across all environments including production support
Leading projects from inception to implementation in a robust, timely and cost-effective manner
Designing, building, implementing and documenting enterprise solutions in Microsoft Azure cloud environments
Supporting Python and/or Bash development lifecycle for enterprise level applications in an Agile environment
Analyzing public and private vulnerability and exploit code, understanding technical details and potential impact across GEICO’s infrastructure, services, and applications
Investigating, triaging, and prioritizing vulnerabilities, identifying severity and scope of potential impact, and supporting response and remediation efforts with engineering teams
Engineering high-quality, scalable, and accurate vulnerability detection mechanisms, leveraging automation and advanced tooling
Designing, implementing, and maintaining automation, tools, and workflows to enhance operational capabilities and efficiency
Troubleshooting issues across multiple applications and platforms
Providing support 24x7 for the platform on an on-call rotation basis
Qualification
Required
Strong, proven experience as a System Engineer in a scalable production environment built on any major cloud platform
1+ Year of experience utilizing Ansible/AWS scheduler to schedule and auto implement vulnerabilities resolution process
4-5 years of experience supporting complex business applications in a large enterprise environment
Proven experience with Microsoft Azure cloud environments & its offerings (PaaS, SaaS or IaaS) to design, build, implement and document enterprise solutions
Proven experience in supporting Python and/or Bash development lifecycle for enterprise level applications in an Agile environment
Provide strategic and technical leadership for the infrastructure vulnerability management and external surface coverage program, partnering with stakeholders across the company
Own the vision, develop the strategy, and execute on the plan to operate the program at scale, ensuring continuous improvement and alignment with organizational goals
Analyze public and private vulnerability and exploit code, deeply understanding and assessing the technical details and potential impact across GEICO's infrastructure, services, and applications
Investigate, triage, and prioritize vulnerabilities, identifying severity and scope of potential impact, and supporting response and remediation efforts with engineering teams
Engineer high-quality, scalable, and accurate vulnerability detection mechanisms, leveraging automation and advanced tooling
Design, implement, and maintain automation, tools, and workflows to enhance operational capabilities and efficiency
Proven experience with Linux and Windows Operating System concepts and commands
Proven experience multi-tasking by balancing delivery of multiple simultaneous projects, working with applications teams to deliver hosting platforms with aggressive timelines
Proven experience implementing and maintaining open-source systems and tooling
Proven experience in troubleshooting issues across multiple applications and platforms
Willing and being able to provide support 24x7 for the platform on an on-call rotation basis
Proven experience with Agile practices, methodologies (Sprint planning, Daily Scrums, Backlog grooming and updating ADO artifacts to ensure work is tracked appropriately) and Atlassian Products (Jira, Confluence, Service Desk)
Strong conceptualization abilities, detailed oriented, critical/analytical thinking & troubleshooting skills with ability to work independently and deliver consistent results
Strong team player with a desire to learn by collaborating within peers and other teammates
Effective organization and communication skills, both written and verbal to the extent of communicating technical issues to non-technical stakeholders eloquently
Preferred
Proven experience in supporting cloud solutions across PaaS and IaaS platform for cloud services, AKS services using SQL, ASB, Cosmos DB, Redis Cache, App Insights, Log analytics and other 3rd party software's like Splunk, Dynatrace etc
Working knowledge of networking concepts (DNS/DHCP/Firewalls/Sub-netting, etc.). Highly knowledgeable about Kubernetes internal workings and Helm chart development. Preferable Kubernetes Certified
Experience with Configuration Management systems (i.e. Puppet, Ansible, Chef)
Automation of vulnerabilities resolution utilizing Ansible or similar tools through a scheduled method
Proven experience in coaching and mentoring junior and offshore team members
Bachelor's degree in computer science/information technology or related field
Experience with Big Data Technologies, Snowflake, Spark, Databricks, Kafka, Mongo DB, Postgres etc. is a plus
Experience with streaming technologies such as Apache Kafka, Flink, or Spark Streaming
Expertise in data governance, security, and compliance within large-scale data systems
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.
Company
GEICO
GEICO, Government Employees Insurance Company, has been providing affordable auto insurance since 1936. It is a sub-organization of Berkshire Hathaway.
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
unknown1996-01-01Acquired
Leadership Team
Todd Combs
Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer
Clayton Johnson
Sr. Director of Product Management
Recent News
2026-01-24
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