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Distinguished Engineer – Qualification & Delivery – Release Platform
| Company | Geico |
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| Location | Bethesda, MD, USA |
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| Salary | $150000 – $300000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | |
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| Experience Level | Expert or higher |
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Requirements
- 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 high-scale 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 self-service 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 company-wide decisions, and mentoring senior engineers.
- Experience working in large-scale, distributed engineering environments with thousands of engineers.
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the strategic roadmap for GEICO’s Deployment and Release Platform and Platform Engineering, ensuring scalability, reliability, and developer efficiency.
- Architect and optimize high-performance CI/CD frameworks and Platform Engineering solutions to support 3000+ engineers and enable self-service 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 cloud-native deployment patterns, and containerized workflows.
- Develop platform engineering frameworks that empower developers with self-service 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 Cloud-Native development across GEICO and the broader engineering community.
- Cross-Team Collaboration: Work with Application, CI, Security, SRE, and Observability teams to drive alignment on deployment strategies, platform engineering solutions, and software delivery automation.
Preferred Qualifications
- Influence architecture, mentor teams, and work with cross-functional teams to establish the overall general technical direction.
- Deep understanding and hands-on 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 open-source initiatives.
- Experience designing service-to-service communication patterns, ingress/egress controls and Kubernetes traffic routing strategies using Istio Service Mesh.
