Senior Engineer - (Java, Data, Enterprise Platforms & Systems Integration) *HYBRID*

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.

The Senior Engineer role provides end-to-end technical leadership and operational support for workplace enterprise technology platforms supporting the digital mailroom, physical security & safety systems, and real estate facilities management environments. This role blends hands-on software engineering, systems engineering, platform administration, DevOps practices, secure design, and proactive service ownership across Windows/Linux servers and multiple SaaS platforms. In this role you will design, develop software solutions, configure, secure, monitor, and optimize highly available platforms that support critical workplace enterprise operations. You will be partnering with product owners, vendors, and engineering teams to translate business requirements into stable, scalable solutions while driving continuous improvement with product mindset.

This hybrid role is designed to support our business partners and be co-located with tech teams, requiring onsite attendance 2-3 days per week or as business demands. The designated office location is within the DMV area.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement infrastructure solutions for workplace technologies including but not limited to digital mailroom, physical security & safety, and real estate facility management technology platforms-covering on-prem systems, hybrid setups, and SaaS applications.
• Provide technical leadership to ensure strong engineering standards and operational excellence.
• Support, configure, and maintain both Linux and Windows server platforms, including application servers, integration components, and system services.
• Build production-ready configurations emphasizing reliability, maintainability, scalability, and testability.
• Lead incident response, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and drive ongoing performance optimization.
• Execute DevOps activities including CI/CD pipeline management, automation scripting, monitoring setup, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Ensure platform observability through logging, alerting, dashboards, and automated health checks.
• Apply secure design practices, compliance controls, network segmentation, encryption, and access management.
• Manage platform lifecycle activities such as patching, upgrades, capacity planning, backups, disaster recovery and identifying opportunities for automation and standardization
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, vendors, and senior engineers, communicating clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Mentor teammates, share feedback, and support continuous improvement of engineering practices and delivery processes.
• Build strong relationships with teammates, managers, and business partners to drive effective platform ownership and service delivery.

Qualifications

• Advanced programming experience with at least one of the object-oriented languages such as Java, C#, or C++.
• Proven understanding of microservices oriented architecture and extensible REST APIs
• Experience architecting, and designing secure, scalable, highly available systems
• Strong database expertise with hands-on data engineering experience, including integration of MySQL/PostgreSQL/SQL Server/Oracle with enterprise systems.
• Strong background in enterprise infrastructure supporting Windows and Linux systems, including builds, configuration, hardening, and troubleshooting.
• Advanced skills with Windows Server, Active Directory, authentication protocols (Kerberos / LDAP / SAML / OAuth), and Azure AD/identity integrations.
• Strong understanding of networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, routing, VPNs, firewalls, load balancers, VLANs, and secure connectivity.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (Azure/AWS), hybrid environments, virtualization (vSphere/Hyper-V), and containers (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Knowledge of monitoring and observability tools, such as Prometheus, Grafana, or equivalent solutions.
• Strong communication, leadership, and problem-solving skills with the ability to manage deployments, mentor teammates, and collaborate across technical and business teams.

Experience

• 6+ years of experience in a hybrid-role as Software Engineer, Systems Engineer, Platform Engineer, or Infrastructure Engineer in an enterprise environment, with strong preference given to those owning or leading internal-facing platforms necessitating interactions with internal enterprise customers.

• 3+ years of experience with architecture and design
• 3+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service
• 2+ years of experience in open-source frameworks

Education

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience

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Annual Salary
$80,000.00 - $215,000.00
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.

GEICO will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.

The GEICO Pledge:

Great Company: At GEICO, we help our customers through life's twists and turns. Our mission is to protect people when they need it most and we're constantly evolving to stay ahead of their needs.

We're an iconic brand that thrives on innovation, exceeding our customers' expectations and enabling our collective success. From day one, you'll take on exciting challenges that help you grow and collaborate with dynamic teams who want to make a positive impact on people's lives.

Great Careers: We offer a career where you can learn, grow, and thrive through personalized development programs, created with your career - and your potential - in mind. You'll have access to industry leading training, certification assistance, career mentorship and coaching with supportive leaders at all levels.

Great Culture: We foster an inclusive culture of shared success, rooted in integrity, a bias for action and a winning mindset. Grounded by our core values, we have an an established culture of caring, inclusion, and belonging, that values different perspectives. Our teams are led by dynamic, multi-faceted teams led by supportive leaders, driven by performance excellence and unified under a shared purpose.

As part of our culture, we also offer employee engagement and recognition programs that reward the positive impact our work makes on the lives of our customers.

Great Rewards: We offer compensation and benefits built to enhance your physical well-being, mental and emotional health and financial future.

• Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your family's overall well-being.
• Financial benefits including market-competitive compensation; a 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match; performance and recognition-based incentives; and tuition assistance.
• Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance.
• Supports flexibility- We provide workplace flexibility as well as our GEICO Flex program, which offers the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year.

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.