Staff Software Engineer - Business Continuity Disaster Recovery

Position Summary

GEICO is seeking an experienced Engineer with a passion for building highperformance low maintenance zerodowntime platforms and applications. 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 cocreating the culture of psychological safety and continuous improvement.

Position Description

Our Staff Engineer works with our Sr. Staff and Sr. Engineers to innovate and build new systems improve and enhance existing systems and identify new opportunities to apply your knowledge to solve critical problems. You will lead the strategy and of a technical roadmap that will increase the velocity of delivering products and unlock new engineering capabilities. The ideal candidate has a deep understanding of technology risk management site reliability engineering principles and strategic planning to design and implement resilient systems that safeguard our business from potential threats.

Position Responsibilities

As a Staff Engineer you will:

• Develop and drive the overall strategy for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) aligning it with the organizations business goals and objectives

• Provide thought leadership in BCDR staying ahead of industry trends and emerging technologies to enhance our resilience posture

• Conduct comprehensive risk assessments to identify potential threats and vulnerabilities

• Design and implement robust risk mitigation strategies and plans to ensure continuous business operations

• Lead the design and architecture of resilient and scalable systems considering both onpremises and cloudbased solutions.

• Collaborate with crossfunctional teams to integrate BCDR considerations into the development and deployment processes

• Develop and maintain comprehensive incident response plans to address various disaster scenarios

• Conduct regular simulations and drills to ensure the readiness of the organization in the event

of a disaster

• Handson software engineering and SDLC best practices (Technical Review Documents Architecture Software Development Software Reviews Testing Production Readiness Reviews among others)

• Evaluate select and implement cuttingedge technologies and tools to enhance our BCDR capabilities including but not limited to processes compliance and visibility

• Develop cuttingedge BCDR reports and BI dashboards with PowerBI Tableau or other reporting tools/technology that includes BCDR metrics including Recovery Time Objective (RTO) & Recovery Point Objective (RPO) with GEICO Tech and CLT.

• Stay current with industry best practices and emerging technologies to continuously improve our BCDR capabilities

• Work closely with executive leadership IT teams and other stakeholders to communicate the importance of BCDR and foster a culture of resilience.

• Act as a trusted advisor providing guidance on BCDR matters to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.

• Be a role model and mentor helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and knowhow of our engineering and product community. Influence and educate executives

• Analyze cost and forecast incorporating them into business plans

• Determine and support resource requirements evaluate operational processes measure outcomes to ensure desired results and demonstrate adaptability and sponsoring continuous learning

Qualifications

• Fluency and specialization in software development and best practices using modern programming languages such as Go Java and Python

• Understanding of SQL and NoSQL databases including stateful services management and storage

• Understanding of networking caches key/value stores load balancing global load balancing queues DNS and CDN.

• Knowledge of SRE practices methodologies and principles along with a solid understanding of on prem and public cloudbased network compute and storage technologies

• Indepth knowledge of hybrid cloud architecture IaaS and PaaS technologies container orchestration platforms (e.g. Kubernetes) cloud efficiency and observability etc.

• Strong background in incident management

• Ability to create incident response playbooks runbooks incident triaging strategies and postincident analysis to drive continuous improvement in system reliability and availability

• Experience with opensource management and monitoring tools

• Experience with infrastructure automation tooling and configuration management frameworks (e.g. Puppet Chef Ansible Terraform etc.

• Familiarity with cloud security best practices and compliance standards

• Knowledge of Business Intelligence and data engineering and ability to manipulate the available data to build additional data sets for Analytics and Reporting purposes

• Excellent leadership skills with a passion for mentoring and fostering professional growth

• Strong problemsolving and analytical abilities with a keen eye for detail and a passion for driving operational excellence

• Visionary thinker with the ability to anticipate future challenges and opportunities

• Exceptional leadership and communication skills

• Strong analytical and problemsolving capabilities

• Proven track record of successfully leading and building software in large and complex organizations

• One or more of the following or relevant certifications are highly desired:

• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)

• Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP)

• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer

• Google Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer

Experience

• 6 years of professional experience in software engineering

• 4 years of experience in opensource frameworks

• 3 years of experience with architecture and design

• 3 years of experience with AWS GCP Azure or another cloud service

Education

• Bachelors degree in computer science Information Systems or equivalent education or work experience