GEICO · 17 hours ago
Distinguished Engineer - Qualification & Delivery - Release Platform
Baltimore, MD
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$140K/yr - $300K/yr
15+ years expGEICO is seeking a Distinguished Engineer to serve as a technical leader within the Deployment and Release Platform and Platform Engineering teams. This hands-on technical leadership role involves defining and driving the next generation of CD pipelines and platform engineering solutions for large-scale enterprise environments.
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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
Qualification
Required
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
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
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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