Distinguished Engineer - Qualification Delivery - Release Platform
Distinguished Engineer - Qualification Delivery - Release Platform
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$ 150000 - 300000
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Job Summary
GEICO is seeking a Distinguished Engineer to serve as a technical leader within the Deployment and Release Platform and Platform Engineering teams. This role is ideal for an industry expert who excels in designing and scaling continuous delivery deployment automation and platform engineering solutions for largescale enterprise environments.
As a Distinguished Engineer you will define and drive the next generation of CD pipelines GitOps strategies platform engineering and release automation frameworks ensuring high availability performance security and developer productivity across the organization. You will collaborate with application teams senior leadership and industry partners to set technology direction influence strategic initiatives and implement snextgen release platform and Platform Engineering methodologies.
This is a handson technical leadership role where you will guide the team in building robust scalable and secure platforms that empower developers streamline deployment workflows and enable seamless software releases at enterprise scale.
Position Responsibilities
Define and drive the strategic roadmap for GEICOs Deployment and Release Platform and Platform Engineering ensuring scalability reliability and developer efficiency.
Architect and optimize highperformance CI/CD frameworks and Platform Engineering solutions to support 3000 engineers and enable selfservice 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 cloudnative deployment patterns and containerized workflows.
Develop platform engineering frameworks that empower developers with selfservice 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 CloudNative development across GEICO and the broader engineering community.
CrossTeam Collaboration: Work with Application CI Security SRE and Observability teams to drive alignment on deployment strategies platform engineering solutions and software delivery automation.
Qualifications
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 highscale 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 selfservice 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 companywide decisions and mentoring senior engineers.
Experience working in largescale distributed engineering environments with thousands of engineers.
Preferred Qualifications
Influence architecture mentor teams and work with crossfunctional teams to establish the overall general technical direction.
Deep understanding and handson 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 opensource initiatives.
Experience designing servicetoservice communication patterns ingress/egress controls and Kubernetes traffic routing strategies using Istio Service Mesh
Annual Salary
$150000.00 $300000.00The above annual salary range is a general guideline. Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final hourly rate/ annual salary to be offered to the selected candidate. Factors include but are not limited to the scope and responsibilities of the role the selected candidates work experience education and training the work location as well as market and business considerations.
Benefits:
As an Associate youll enjoy our Total Rewards Program* to help secure your financial future and preserve your health and wellbeing including:
- Premier Medical Dental and Vision Insurance with no waiting period**
- Paid Vacation Sick and Parental Leave
- 401(k) Plan
- Tuition Assistance
- Paid Training and Licensures
*Benefits may be different by location. Benefit eligibility requirements vary and may include length of service.
**Coverage begins on the date of hire. Must enroll in New Hire Benefits within 30 days of the date of hire for coverage to take effect.
The equal employment opportunity policy of the GEICO Companies provides for a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race color religious creed national origin ancestry age gender pregnancy sexual orientation gender identity marital status familial status disability or genetic information in compliance with applicable federal state and local law. GEICO hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled.
GEICO reasonably accommodates qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to receive equal employment opportunity and/or perform the essential functions of the job unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship to the Company. This applies to all applicants and associates. GEICO also provides a work environment in which each associate is able to be productive and work to the best of their ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment. We expect and require the cooperation of all associates in maintaining an atmosphere free from discrimination and harassment with mutual respect by and for all associates and applicants.
Employment Type
Full-Time
