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About GEICO
GEICO (Government Employees Insurance Company) is one of the largest auto insurers in the United States, offering affordable auto, home, renters, and other personal insurance products. Industry: Insurance
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The Senior Manager, Staff SW Engineering - (Platform Engineering) leads the File Exchange Platform team to manage a tier-1 secure file transfer service. This role involves driving modernization toward a self-service portal, ensuring high availability, and meeting NYDFS/PCI compliance. You will also lead the Unified Platform Experience team to define paved roads for PaaS providers, including Platform SDKs and Infrastructure as Code as a Service. Key responsibilities include defining architectural standards, managing team budgets, and overseeing the end-to-end delivery of platform strategies. Required technical skills include proficiency in Java, Python, C#, .NET, Go, or TypeScript, alongside experience with Terraform, Git, Jenkins, and SonarQube. You must possess deep knowledge of distributed systems, microservices, and secure file transfer technologies like SFTP and HTTPS.
Lead the File Exchange Platform team to manage secure file transfers and drive modernization toward a self-service portal.
Manage the Unified Platform Experience team to define paved roads for PaaS service providers and standardize cloud onboarding.
Drive shared engineering outcomes with Unified Control Plane partners to advance production-ready platforms with audit trails and observability.
Define and enforce architectural standards, guidelines, and best practices to ensure high performance and reliability.
Negotiate and estimate incremental delivery dates for milestones with stakeholders to ensure projects are delivered on time.
Identify project risks and present detailed, implementable solutions or alternatives to senior leadership.
Initiate and support performance evaluations for team members while cultivating a culture of high achievement.
Develop the team budget and report on results achieved at regular intervals.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology or related field, or equivalent experience.
At least 6 years of coding experience.
At least 5 years of experience in designing, developing, and operating enterprise file transfer platforms, developer experience platforms, or IaC delivery systems.
At least 5 years of significant experience building scalable, fault-tolerant, and robust products and platforms.
At least 5 years of hands-on work experience supervising 10+ personnel in a technical environment.
At least 2 years of experience with automated testing including Unit, Integration, and End-to-End functional testing.
Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Java, Python, C#, .NET, Go, or TypeScript.
Knowledge of cloud computing (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS), distributed systems, and highly available, scalable architectures.
Java
Go
C++
C#
Python
OCI
CI/CD
GitOps
Distributed Systems
Infrastructure Automation
Site Reliability Engineering
Observability
Identity and Access Management
Policy-as-Code
Artifact Management
Python
Go
Kubernetes
Terraform
AWS
Azure
Google Cloud Platform
infrastructure-as-code
Distributed Systems
CDN
TCP/IP
DNS
TLS
HTTP/S
Load Balancing
Linux
Unix
WAF