Geico - Chevy Chase, MD
posted 2 months ago
GEICO's Infrastructure and Capacity Planning is seeking an experienced Senior Manager to build and manage a new team of engineers who are passionate about creating engineering solutions, including tools, frameworks, and automation for Cloud Infrastructure. This newly established organization is focused on enabling optimal cloud capacity for all application teams to run enterprise-wide products. The workloads are distributed between On-prem, Azure, and AWS, providing exciting opportunities to tackle complex problems in a Hybrid-cloud model. As a Senior Manager, you will have a significant impact on our customers' experience and contribute to GEICO's mission of technology transformation. In this role, you will be an engineering leader responsible for guiding the engineering staff across the organization to ensure a seamless experience for our customers by providing the right capacity at the right time and cost. Our team thrives in delivering high-quality technology products and services in a hyper-growth environment where priorities can shift rapidly. The ideal candidate will possess broad and deep technical knowledge and experience to enhance capacity planning, cloud/infrastructure architecture, and leverage engineering solutions to address operational challenges. As a Senior Manager, you will collaborate with application teams to understand and translate their needs into infrastructure requirements. You will influence and build a vision with application owners to expedite the delivery of quality products. You will take ownership of the end-to-end delivery of team strategy and execution, develop and motivate teams to solve complex problems, and advocate for open-source technologies and solutions. Additionally, you will be technically hands-on in coding and building highly available systems, responsible for mentoring a new team of software engineers, and driving the team towards long-term goals while efficiently addressing high-priority technical debts. You will also be a thought leader in Infrastructure & Capacity Planning, Supply Chain, Operational Excellence, and DevOps Principles, consistently sharing best practices and improving processes within and across teams.