Software Engineer II – IaaS (Platform and Tools – VMs)

Job Description

At GEICO, we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless possibilities. Every day we honor our iconic brand by offering quality coverage to millions of customers and being there when they need us most. We thrive through relentless innovation to exceed our customers’ expectations while making a real impact for our company through our shared purpose.

When you join our company, we want you to feel valued, supported and proud to work here. That’s why we offer The GEICO Pledge: Great Company, Great Culture, Great Rewards and Great Careers. Position Summary GEICO is seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer with a passion for building high performance, low maintenance, zero-downtime 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 co-creating the culture of psychological safety and continuous improvement.

Position Description Our Software Engineers work with our Sr. Staff Engineers, Staff Engineers, and Sr.

Engineers to innovate and build new systems, improve, and enhance existing systems as well as identify new opportunities to apply your knowledge to solve critical problems. You will lead the strategy and execution of a technical roadmap that will increase the velocity of delivering products and unlock new engineering capabilities. The Platform and Tools team is dedicated to realizing a secure, reliable, scalable, and highly efficient next-generation virtual machine management and orchestration platform running on Kubernetes.

We seek an ideal candidate with strong technical expertise in software engineering, virtual machines, containers, and upstream Kubernetes, along with proficiency in Kubevirt and the OpenStack, Azure, and AWS IaaS platforms/APIs. Position Responsibilities As an Engineer, you will: Collaborate with product managers, team members, customers, and other engineering teams to solve our toughest problems Execute a strategic software development plan for IaaS, encompassing virtual machines, containers, Kubernetes, Kubevirt, OpenStack, and Azure. Prioritize security, optimization for performance and efficiency across the entire development lifecycle.

Own accountability for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams Fulfill on-call responsibilities and offer operational support. Qualifications Strong software engineering and system architecture background.

Experience with REST APIs, Kubernetes APIs, microservices, and containers. Experience with virtual machine provisioning frameworks utilizing Kubernetes operators such as Kubevirt or Crossplane. Experience with modern front-end frameworks such as React, Angular, or Vue.

js. Experience of building best-in-class customer facing experiences. Proficient in Kubernetes (K8s) with hands-on experience in cluster provisioning and management.

Practical knowledge and experience in Linux and Windows operating systems, internals, and command-line utilities. Comprehensive understanding of containerization technologies like Docker, Podman, and Rancher. Familiarity with technologies such as ArgoCD, Cilium, Kubebuilder, and Kubevirt.

Expertise in automation tools (e. g. , Ansible, Cloud Init, Crossplane, Pulumi, Terraform) for streamlined infrastructure provisioning.

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