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GEICO · 1 month ago

Senior Staff Engineer SRE Incident Response (NOC)

Chevy Chase, MD

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$110K/yr - $260K/yr

10+ years exp

GEICO is a leading insurance company seeking a Senior Staff Engineer SRE Incident Response to enhance their engineering-driven organization. This role focuses on building high-performance platforms, managing large-scale systems, and ensuring reliability and performance standards while participating in incident response and troubleshooting.

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Responsibilities

Lead technical initiatives across multiple teams, providing strategic and technical guidance

Utilize programming languages like Go, Python, Java, and work with SQL/NoSQL databases

Work with container orchestration tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenStack

Architect and develop cloud-native applications using Azure services

Collaborate with product managers, engineering teams, and stakeholders to solve complex challenges

Ensure the quality, performance, and usability of engineering solutions

Serve as a mentor and thought leader, coaching engineers and influencing executives

Continuously improve processes, adopt best practices, and drive operational efficiency

Support and participate in On Call rotations, responding to incidents, diagnosing production issues, and conducting post-incident reviews to improve system reliability

Qualification

GoPythonJavaSQL/NoSQLDockerKubernetesAzureIncident responseTroubleshootingRoot cause analysisTerraformAnsibleCI/CD pipelinesInfrastructure as CodeMonitoring toolsLogging toolsObservability toolsConfiguration managementOrchestration tools

Required

Expertise in at least two modern programming languages (Go, Python, Java, C, C++) and object-oriented design

Strong ownership and accountability with excellent communication and collaboration skills

Hands-on experience in incident response, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis

Experience managing distributed systems in public, private, or hybrid cloud environments

Experience with monitoring, logging, and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Loki)

Passion for automation and reducing manual operations using tools like Terraform and Ansible

Familiarity with configuration management and orchestration tools (Helm, Puppet, Spinnaker)

Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and cloud-based deployments

Ability to operate in a fast-paced, high-scale environment with a problem-solving mindset

10+ years of professional experience in software development, platform architecture, and infrastructure management

8+ years of experience as either a SRE or DevOps team member

8+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or hybrid cloud environments

8+ years of experience with open-source frameworks

5+ years of experience with system architecture and design

5+ years of experience of being in an OnCall rotation

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent work experience

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

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GEICO, Government Employees Insurance Company, has been providing affordable auto insurance since 1936. It is a sub-organization of Berkshire Hathaway.

Founded in 1936

Chase, Maryland, USA

10001+ employees