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Senior Manager, Site Reliability Engineering - Network

unlimited holidays - extra holidays - extra parental leave - long remote period allowed
Remote: 
Full Remote
Contract: 
Full time
Salary: 
110 - 262K yearly
Experience: 
Senior (5-10 years)
Work from: 
United States

Offer summary

Qualifications:

Strong knowledge in modern open source networking concepts and architectures, Experience in cloud computing technologies, object-oriented development, and CI/CD chains.

Key responsabilities:

  • Lead and manage engineers to deliver products efficiently
  • Innovate and enhance engineering solutions to solve critical problems
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GEICO Insurance XLarge https://www.geico.com/
10001 Employees
About GEICO
We know you know GEICO, but we want you to know that with us, you’ll find a rewarding career no matter which path you take. Our over 40,000 associates have been unexpectedly delighted to find that their jobs have turned into illuminating careers. You know us for insurance. Get to know us for great careers, too. Just the Stats on GEICO ■ 16 million auto policyholders (and growing!) ■ Insures more than 20 million vehicles ■ Second-largest private passenger auto insurer in the United States (A.M. Best) ■ Employs more than 40,000 associates ■ Maintains 16+ offices around the country ■ Provides 24-hour service, 7 days a week, 365 days a year GEICO's seven operating principles help create a workplace in which our associates can thrive. We're looking for great associates that share our ability to incorporate these values into our corporate culture and day-to-day business activities! ■ Respect, support and provide opportunity for all associates ■ Be fanatics for outstanding customer service ■ Be the low-cost provider ■ Operate with uncompromising integrity ■ Maintain a disciplined balance sheet ■ Make an underwriting profit while achieving optimum growth ■ Invest for total return Career Opportunities at GEICO ■ Jobs in Sales, Customer Service and Claims in most major locations ■ Auto Damage Adjuster careers in most states ■ Information Technology jobs utilizing cutting edge technologies ■ Careers in Actuary, Product Management and Underwriting Research ■ Fast-track Leadership Programs for college graduates ■ Legal careers in headquarters and in many states GEICO Has Office Locations In ■ Chevy Chase, Maryland (HQ) ■ Fredericksburg, Virginia ■ Woodbury, New York ■ Macon, Georgia ■ San Diego, California ■ Dallas, Texas ■ Lakeland, Florida ■ Marlton, New Jersey ■ Virginia Beach, Virginia ■ Buffalo, New York ■ Tucson, Arizona ■ Indianapolis, Indiana ■ North Liberty, Iowa ■ Honolulu, Hawaii ■ Houston, Texas ■ Seattle, Washington ■ Kansas City, Kansas
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Job description

Senior Manager, Site Reliability Engineering - Network 

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Position Summary  

GEICO is seeking an experienced Senior Manager with a passion for building high performance, low-latency platforms, and applications. You will build and manage a team of engineers with a deep focus on delivering enterprise-wide product to operate in a highly performant and efficient way. You will help drive our insurance business transformation as we redefine experiences for our customers. 

 

Position Description  

​Our Senior Manager is an engineering leader who works with the engineering staff to innovate and build new engineering solutions, improve and enhance existing solutions as well as leverage engineering solutions to solve critical operational problems. A Senior Manager will lead strategy and execution of a technical roadmap that will increase the velocity of delivering products and unlock new engineering capabilities. The ideal candidate has deep technical expertise to improve application performance, capacity benchmarking, improve availability and reliability, design and evolve cloud infrastructure and architecture. 

 

Position Responsibilities  

​​As a Senior Manager, you will:  

  • Have strong technical expertise and leadership, you are able to lead from the trenches and have proven knowledge in your field 

  • Be able to drive infrastructure as code and show proficiency in field-appropriate programming languages, lead by example 

  • ​Work with your Director to address project dependencies, negotiate and estimate incremental delivery dates for milestones with the stakeholder community, and deliver projects on time  

  • ​Identify and raise appropriate project risks, in addition to presenting detailed and implementable solutions or alternatives  

  • ​Understand how requirements and design choices may impact systems across multiple areas  

  • ​Report on your team’s progress for project and other key metrics, in addition to presenting detailed and implementable ideas for areas to further improve or influence product or project delivery  

  • ​Initiate and support performance evaluation of team members  

  • ​Cultivate a culture that motivates all levels of performers to higher levels of achievement   

  • ​Build and maintain relationships with your team members to support an environment of trust  

  • ​Influence those you motivate and coach to be receptive to feedback by cultivating a culture that acknowledges and expects individuals to grow and be accountable as a result of the experience gained (growth mindset)  

  • ​Identify where technical or analytical skill gaps put future team deliverables at risk and craft a plan to remediate, consistently challenge team members to share knowledge and learn new technologies  

  • ​Proficiently execute difficult conversations on development and performance  

  • ​Craft and deliver strategic and well-structured persuasive arguments to drive projects that drive process improvement, enhance cost leadership, and/or customer experience 

  • ​Manage up to leadership as well as give feedback when appropriate  

  • ​Administer coaching plan(s) and Performance Improvement Plan(s)  

  • ​Craft fully compliant quality documentation  

  • ​Compliant negotiation and execution of warning administration and/or involuntary termination  

  • ​Develop the team budget and be accountable for reporting on results achieved at regular intervals  

  • ​Significantly contribute to the team planning process to include surfacing associate level proposals​  

  • Collaborate with the product teams to understand their pain points around performance, resiliency and formulate strategies to address recurring issues in a sustainable way 

  • Influence and build vision with product owners to ship quality products in a faster pace 

  • Develop and motivate teams to solve complex problems and be a strong advocate for open-source technologies and solutions 

  • Be responsible for building and mentoring a new team of Site reliability engineers and managers 

  • Drive the team towards building solutions towards the long-term goals while ensuring that high priority tech debts are solved in an efficient way 

  • Be a strong thought leader in Site Reliability engineering, Operational excellence, and DevOps Principles 

  • Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams 

 

Qualifications  

  • Strong knowledge in modern open source networking concepts and at-scale network architectures. 

  • Experience with Open Source Network Operating systems such as SONiC and related smartNiC overlay networks. 

  • Focus on leveraging infrastructure as code as a primary means of control. Building CI/CD chains for network operations 

  • Knowledge of cloud computing technologies and concepts (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, etc) 

  • Working knowledge of object-oriented development, Gang of Four (GOF) Design Patterns, Microservices, Dependency Injection with IOC containers, and both frontend and backend unit testing 

  • Proven ability to concentrate and demonstrate a capacity for learning technical concepts and adapting to new technologies quickly 

  • Strong Cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure etc.) platform knowledge 

  • Proficiency in Project Management and work item management tools such as Azure DevOps and Portfolio 

  • Strong foundation in algorithms, data structures, and core computer science concepts 

  • Experience in existing Operational Portals such as Azure Portal 

  • Fluency with Python, Ansible, JSON, and RESTful Web Services 

  • Experience with application monitoring tools and performance assessments 

  • Experience in PowerShell Scripting 

  • Constructing, interpreting, and applying metrics to your work and decision making, able to use those metrics to identify correlation between drivers and results, and using that information to drive prioritization and action  

  • Strong understanding of Site Reliability Engineering and DevOps principles 

  • Strong technical acumen in Cloud Architecture, Performance Benchmarking, and Capacity planning 

  • Expert in Container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes), container runtimes and optimization 

  • Experience with driving cultural change in technical excellence, quality, and efficiency 

  • Experience managing and growing technical leaders and teams 

  • In-depth knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms 

 

 Experience  

  • ​​8+ years of experience in leadership position 

  • 8+ years of leading a SRE team 

  • 6+ years coding experience 

  • 5+ years of development in a large-scale, mission-critical environment 

  • 5+ years of hands-on work experience supervising personnel in a technical environment 

  • 5+ years of experience with one of the public cloud - AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service 

  • 2+ years' experience with automated testing including Unit, Integration, and End-to-End functional testing 

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Education  

  • ​​Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology or related field, or equivalent experience 

 


 

Annual Salary

$110,000.00 - $261,500.00

The 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 candidate’s work experience, education and training, the work location as well as market and business considerations.


 

At this time, GEICO will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.


 

Benefits:

As an Associate, you’ll enjoy our Total Rewards Program* to help secure your financial future and preserve your health and well-being, including:

  • Premier Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance with no waiting period**
  • Paid Vacation, Sick and Parental Leave
  • 401(k) Plan
  • Tuition Reimbursement
  • 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.

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Experience

Level of experience: Senior (5-10 years)
Industry :
Insurance
Spoken language(s):
English
Check out the description to know which languages are mandatory.

Hard Skills

KubernetesPython (Programming Language)Data StructuresJSONEffective CommunicationObject-Oriented DesignOpenFlowInfrastructure as Code (IaC)Human Performance EvaluationCloud TechnologiesJava API For RESTful Web ServicesWindows PowerShellAnsibleProject Management SoftwareCI/CDAzure DevOpsContainerization

Other Skills

  • Team Effectiveness
  • Strategic Thinking
  • Leadership Development
  • Motivational Skills
  • Mentorship
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