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Base pay range

$115,000.00/yr - $230,000.00/yr

Overview

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. Thats why we offer The GEICO Pledge: Great Company, Great Culture, Great Rewards and Great Careers.

Position Description

We are looking for a highly motivated and skilled Staff Engineer FinOps to join our Capacity and Workload Management organization. This role is part of the FinOps and Cloud Optimization team, focusing on leading FinOps Engineering projects with expertise in Cloud Services, architecture, cost optimization, budgeting and forecasting.

The ideal candidate should have extensive experience in leading significant projects, encompassing aspects such as budgeting and forecast, cost optimization, capacity planning, and a readiness to take charge and collaborate across the stack as per the team's requirements.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrating a strong grasp of cloud requirements such as cost optimization and capacity planning, facilitating cross-organizational partnerships for cost optimization discussions.
• Managing and implementing optimization and automation strategies for business processes.
• Contributing to the creation of a comprehensive strategy to enhance savings, improve spend reporting, governance, and drive process enhancement.
• Collaborating with business leaders, engineers, and partner teams to collect budget requirements, establish and maintain budget report using various tools, forecast the cost and relevant tasks.
• Overseeing FinOps stakeholder communications, defining FinOps KPIs for IT executives, and collaborating with Controllers/Tech Financials Controls.
• Effectively relaying critical information to stakeholders, including senior leadership.
• Assisting in developing the Economic Unit using business metrics to manage cloud operational expenses.
• Providing technical and thought leadership across multiple stack layers, focusing on full stack web app development and ensuring UI, microservices, and backend systems integration.
• Serving as a role model and mentor to senior and junior engineers, guiding them in system architecture, design, and implementation.
• Maintaining clear communication with partner teams and leads, explaining technical implementations to stakeholders for alignment across teams.
• Utilizing experience in deploying web applications in Kubernetes (k8s) environments to ensure reliable interaction with backend services and seamless integration with cloud and on-premises systems.

Qualifications

• Deep understanding of Cloud Services and architectures, pricing models, and billing structures that will allow the candidate to perform deep dives and complex analysis of cost trends, anomalies, identify areas of improvement and support decision making with data driven insights
• Strong understanding of cloud-based services usage and pricing; AWS and/or Azure and Hands on cloud experience (AWS, Azure etc.)
• Strong understanding of cloud requirements, ability to partner across GEICO Tech and drive cost optimization discussions.
• Collaborate with application teams to understand their approaches and designs to optimize performance and costs within cloud services.
• Experience designing and developing microservices using Python, Django, gRPC with protocol buffers, Kafka and Apache Spark with a deep understanding of both API and event-driven architectures.
• 8+ years of experience working in FinOps Projects and understanding of FinOps concepts preferred.
• 5+ years of experience in budgeting, forecasting, cost savings, and reporting using various tools.
• 4+ years of experience in open-source frameworks and cloud technologies like Azure, AWS, GCP.
• 3+ years of experience with cloud architecture and design including cost optimization, capacity planning, pricing, performance tuning.
• 2+ years of professional software development experience and/or solutions engineering experience with technologies such as Java, TypeScript, ReactJS, BoostrapJS, Python, Golang, Docker, Kubernetes, or Terraform.

Education

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

Annual Salary

$115,000.00 - $230,000.00

The above annual salary range is a general guideline. Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final salary to be offered to the selected candidate. Factors include, but are not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the role, the selected candidates 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 lifes twists and turns. Our mission is to protect people when they need it most and were constantly evolving to stay ahead of their needs.

Were an iconic brand that thrives on innovation, exceeding our customers expectations and enabling our collective success. From day one, youll take on exciting challenges that help you grow and collaborate with dynamic teams who want to make a positive impact on peoples 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. Youll 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 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 familys 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.

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

Insurance