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 the strategy and execution of a technical roadmap that will increase the speed of delivering products and unlock new engineering capabilities. The Cluster Management team’s mission is to bring to reality the next-generation container cluster management and orchestration platform on Kubernetes that is secure, reliable, scalable, and highly efficient. The ideal candidate has deep technical expertise in building and maintaining highly secure cluster management platform based on Kubernetes running on private and public clouds.
Position Responsibilities
As a Senior Manager, you will:
Work with your senior leadership to address project dependencies, negotiate and estimate incremental delivery dates for milestones with the stakeholder community, and deliver projects on time
Management responsibility for a team of Kubernetes based multi-cluster management platform including policy, compliance, risk, governance, operations, and support
Ownership of the end-to-end delivery of team strategy and platforms
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
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
Software and system design knowledge and experience
Knowledge of cloud computing technologies and concepts (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, etc.)
Knowledge in Operating Systems, Linux, Virtual Machines, Container (Docker/Containerd), Cluster Management (Kubernetes) technologies including running on private and public cloud infrastructure.
Development and Management experience in one or all the following:
Cluster and container management based on Kubernetes running in private and public cloud or bare metal
Multi-cluster networking based on service mesh like ISTIO, Linkerd, Envoy or Consul
Multi-cluster metrics, observability, and operations with frameworks such as Grafana, Prometheus, Jaeger
Experience with software development, software delivery lifecycle, application modernization, DevOps, Service/Infrastructure as Service and Operations
Basic understanding and managing CI/CD toolchain products like Jira, Git, Artifactory, Jenkins, Anchore, SonarQube and IaC tools like Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Chef
Knowledge of API, Microservices, network and security architectures and design patterns
Fluency with at least one modern language such as Python, Java, Go and experience with open-source software is a big plus
Demonstrated conflict management, decision making and negotiation skills
Proven ability to concentrate and demonstrate a capacity for learning technical concepts and adapting to new technologies quickly
Experience in application monitoring tools and performance assessments
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.
6+ years coding experience
5+ years of significant experience building scalable, fault-tolerant, and robust products and platforms
5+ years of hands-on work experience supervising 10+ personnel in a technical environment
2+ years of experience with automated testing including Unit, Integration, and End-to-End functional testing
Annual Salary
$120,000.00 - $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.
