Geico Insurance Plano , TX 75023
Posted 2 weeks ago
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 and 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 Network Services team's mission is to build and maintain the enterprise networks that make up our private and public cloud, campus, core, and wide area network (WAN). The ideal candidate has deep technical expertise in building and maintaining large-scale networks that are secure, reliable, and scalable.
Position Responsibilities
As a Senior Manager, you will:
Lead and mentor a team of solutions engineers in a 24x7 large scale, mission critical environment
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
Ownership of the end-to-end delivery of team strategy, platforms, and services
Identify and raise appropriate project risks, in addition to presenting detailed and implementable solutions or alternatives
Develop, maintain, and track service performance metrics for effectiveness, quality, and improvement.
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
Understand how requirements and design choices may impact systems across multiple areas
Initiate and support performance evaluation of team members
Cultivate a culture that motivates all levels of performers to higher levels of achievement
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
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
Qualifications
Experience with network technology and environments including datacenter, private and public cloud, campus, and wide area networks
Knowledge of secure network designs and security compliance requirements
Experience with network performance, capacity, configuration, and fault management processes and tools
Knowledge and experience with software and system design
Knowledge of cloud computing technologies and concepts (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, etc.)
Knowledge in operating systems, Linux, virtual machines, container (Docker/containers) technologies including running on private and public cloud infrastructure
Experience with software development, software delivery lifecycle, application modernization, DevOps, Service/Infrastructure as Service and Operations
Basic understanding of CI/CD toolchain products like Jira, Git, Artifactory, Jenkins, Anchore, SonarQube and IaC tools like Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, and Chef
Knowledge of API, microservices, network and security architectures and design patterns
Understanding and experience with Python, JSON, XML, or RESTful services and 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
Strong technical acumen in cloud architecture, performance benchmarking, and capacity planning
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
Experience
6+ years network infrastructure engineering and operations experience
6+ years of coding experience is desired
5+ years of experience in a large-scale, mission-critical environment
5+ years of significant experience building scalable, fault-tolerant, and robust products and platforms
5+ years of hands-on work experience supervising personnel in a technical environment
3+ years scripting/coding experience in languages or frameworks such as Bash, Python, GO, Ansible, or Terraform
2+ years of experience with automated testing including Unit, Integration, and End-to-End functional testing is desired
Education
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Annual Salary
$115,000.00 - $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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