Distinguished Engineer - Qualification & Delivery - Release Platform

Job Summary GEICO is seeking a Distinguished Engineer to serve as a technical leader within the Deployment and Release Platform and Platform Engineering teams. This role is ideal for an industry expert who excels in designing and scaling continuous delivery, deployment automation, and platform engineering solutions for large-scale enterprise environments. As a Distinguished Engineer, you will define and drive the next generation of CD pipelines, GitOps strategies, platform engineering, and release automation frameworks, ensuring high availability, performance, security, and developer productivity across the organization. You will collaborate with application teams, senior leadership, and industry partners to set technology direction, influence strategic initiatives, and implement snext-gen release platform and Platform Engineering methodologies. This is a hands-on technical leadership role where you will guide the team in building robust, scalable, and secure platforms that empower developers, streamline deployment workflows, and enable seamless software releases at enterprise scale. Position Responsibilities Define and drive the strategic roadmap for GEICO’s Deployment and Release Platform and Platform Engineering, ensuring scalability, reliability, and developer efficiency. Architect and optimize high-performance CI/CD frameworks and Platform Engineering solutions to support 3000 engineers and enable self-service infrastructure. Pioneer the adoption of GitOps principles using Flux, ArgoCD, and Kubernetes, enabling automated, declarative deployments. Define Service to service communication patterns, and discoverability using Istio Service Mesh Design and enforce deployment control gates using Policy as Code methodologies with Open Policy Agent (OPA) and Rego, ensuring secure, compliant, and auditable deployments. Lead the adoption of cloud-native deployment patterns, and containerized workflows. Develop platform engineering frameworks that empower developers with self-service capabilities, reducing communication confusions and accelerating software delivery. Define best practices for monitoring, logging, tracing, and release observability using tools like Prometheus, Grafana. Serve as a mentor, and advocate for best practices in DevSecOps, Continuous Delivery, Platform Engineering, and Cloud-Native development across GEICO and the broader engineering community. Cross-Team Collaboration: Work with Application, CI, Security, SRE, and Observability teams to drive alignment on deployment strategies, platform engineering solutions, and software delivery automation. Qualifications 15 years of software engineering, DevOps, or platform engineering experience, with a deep focus on DevSecOps, CI/CD, deployment automation, platform engineering, and release engineering. Expertise in Kubernetes, container orchestration, and GitOps workflows (ArgoCD, Helm). Deep experience with high-scale CI/CD platforms, including GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps pipelines. Strong understanding of Deployment Control Gates and Policy as Code with Open Policy Agent (OPA) and Rego to enforce deployment policies. Platform Engineering expertise with experience designing self-service platforms, developer portals, and infrastructure automation. Proficiency in Linux system administration, networking fundamentals, and cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure). Strong understanding of observability, monitoring, and tracing for CI/CD pipelines, platform engineering solutions, and release workflows. Proven track record of technical leadership, influencing company-wide decisions, and mentoring senior engineers. Experience working in large-scale, distributed engineering environments with thousands of engineers. Preferred Qualifications Influence architecture, mentor teams, and work with cross-functional teams to establish the overall general technical direction. Deep understanding and hands-on experience with software delivery pipelines, release versioning, distributed systems, and release orchestration Experience with Development and DevOps platforms such as Azure DevOps, GitHub, Jenkins, etc. Experience with progressive delivery techniques, including feature flags, canary releases, and blue/green deployments. Prior experience in leading major DevOps and platform engineering transformation, cloud migration or open-source initiatives. Experience designing service-to-service communication patterns, ingress/egress controls and Kubernetes traffic routing strategies using Istio Service Mesh Annual Salary $150,000.00 - $300,000.00 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. At this time, GEICO will not sponsor a new 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. For more than 75 years, GEICO has stood out from the rest of the insurance industry! We are one of the nation's largest and fastest-growing auto insurers thanks to our low rates, outstanding service and clever marketing. We're an industry leader employing thousands of dedicated and hard-working associates. As a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, we offer associates training and career advancement in a financially stable and rewarding workplace. Opportunities for Students & Grads Learn more about GEICO Learn more about GEICO Diversity and Inclusion Learn more about GEICO Benefits

Salary : $150,000 - $300,000