Staff Engineer, Capacity Planning and Management

GEICO

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Work type
On-site
Location
Bethesda, MDPalo Alto, CADallas, TXSeattle, WA
Salary
$110,000–$230,000 / yr
Posted
128 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Salary context

Below market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $210k
This role $170k
$93k most similar roles pay here $270k

This role pays less than 84% of similar roles. Most pay $181,359–$238,250 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $170k versus about $210k for comparable roles.

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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

GEICO currently has 68 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $112,500–$230,000 across 68 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Staff Engineer, Capacity Planning and Management

Staff Engineer - Capacity Planning and Management joins the team to support the buildout of core capabilities within the Capacity Management Platform. This role is essential for enabling proactive infrastructure and cloud capacity planning across a hybrid technology landscape. The engineer will design and implement systems for cloud and on-premise capacity forecasting, develop internal tools and APIs providing real-time signals to hardware procurement and finance partners, and create quota and subscription management solutions. Key responsibilities include analyzing workload characteristics, optimizing placement decisions, and managing infrastructure demand planning to ensure efficient provisioning and cost predictability. The role requires expertise in AWS, Azure, and hybrid environment management, along with skills in data pipelines, dashboards, and analytics platforms. The work focuses on solving the challenge of scaling infrastructure for application onboarding while ensuring long-term cost predictability and service availability across technical platforms.

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What you'll do

  • Lead the design and implementation of systems for cloud and on-premise capacity forecasting.
  • Analyze workload characteristics to optimize placement decisions and reduce infrastructure waste.
  • Develop internal tools and APIs to provide real-time capacity signals to procurement and finance teams.
  • Design and build quota and subscription management solutions for shared infrastructure resources.
  • Create data-driven signals to guide hardware purchase decisions for greenfield and brownfield environments.
  • Develop demand management capabilities to support the onboarding of service providers.
  • Align capacity forecasts with spend and budget expectations in partnership with Finance and FinOps teams.
  • Establish governance models for capacity consumption, allocation, and scaling practices across technical platforms.

What we're looking for

  • At least 8 years of experience in infrastructure, platform, or capacity engineering in large-scale enterprise or hybrid cloud environments.
  • Demonstrated expertise in building capacity planning models, workload analysis frameworks, and forecasting pipelines for infrastructure management.
  • Strong understanding of cloud services like AWS and Azure, infrastructure provisioning workflows, and OnPrem hardware life cycles.
  • Experience collaborating with procurement, hardware, or finance teams to guide infrastructure acquisition based on forecasted demand.
  • Familiarity with workload repatriation, application migration strategies, and hybrid environment management.
  • Experience building internal tools and APIs for use by engineering or operations teams.
  • Strong data analysis background including experience with data pipelines, dashboards, or analytics platforms for infrastructure insights.
  • Excellent collaboration and communication skills to influence cross-functional stakeholders at various technical and business levels.

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