The Senior Staff Engineer at GEICO will play a crucial role in transforming the insurance business by designing, deploying, and maintaining OpenStack-based environments. This position focuses on driving automation in cloud operations and optimizing CI/CD pipelines while fostering a culture of psychological safety and continuous improvement. The ideal candidate will work closely with other engineers to enhance monitoring and observability of systems. This role requires a strong background in cloud engineering and collaboration with various teams.

• 8+ years of professional experience in cloud engineering, platform administration, or infrastructure automation
• Strong experience with monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability in cloud environments
• Proficiency in Python programming and scripting
• Experience with OpenStack administration and operations is preferred
• Strong experience with Ansible for automation and configuration management
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools and workflows such as Jenkins and GitHub Actions
• Good understanding of networking and security best practices in cloud deployments
• Experience with containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes

• Improve monitoring, observability, and performance of deployed systems
• Design, deploy, and manage OpenStack-based cloud environments
• Develop and maintain automation scripts and playbooks using Python, Ansible, and GitHub Workflows
• Implement and optimize CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application delivery
• Support containerization initiatives such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues in cloud and automation workflows
• Collaborate with development, operations, and security teams
• Share best practices and improve processes within and across teams
• Participate in on-call and operational support as needed
• Mentor junior engineers