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Senior Staff Manager-Site Reliability Engineering
| Company | Geico |
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| Location | Bethesda, MD, USA |
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| Salary | $130000 – $300000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | |
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| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
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Requirements
- Strong Site Reliability Engineering Principles
- Fluency in at least one modern language such as Go, Java, and Python
- Understanding of Linux internals
- Experience with open-source software is a plus
- Working knowledge of functional and object-oriented development paradigms, and design patterns
- Passionate for all things testing (unit, integration, functional, performance, etc.)
- Strong foundation in algorithms, data structures, and core computer science concepts
- Implemented RESTful and GRPC services, event driven architectures, microservices and libraries
- Knowledge of cloud computing technologies and concepts (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, etc.)
- Knowledge of Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure etc.)
- Experience with application monitoring tools and performance assessments
- Understand of SQL, and NoSQL databases, including stateful services management and storage
- Understand of networking, caches, key/value stores, load balancing, global load balancing, queues, DNS and CDN
- Ability to construct, interpret, and apply metrics for decision-making, prioritization, and progress visibility
- Strong passion for technology and engineering excellence
- Exceptional leadership and communication skills
- Effective communication and negotiation abilities
- Adaptability and capacity for learning technical concepts quickly
- Commitment to fostering a culture of trust, accountability, and continuous improvement
- Strategic thinking and the ability to drive projects for positive change
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with the Director to manage project dependencies, negotiate delivery dates, and ensure the timely completion of projects
- Identify and address project risks, presenting implementable solutions or alternatives
- Understand how requirements and design choices may impact systems across multiple areas
- Initiate and support performance evaluation of team members
- Craft fully compliant quality documentation
- Collaborate with the product teams to understand their pain points around performance, resiliency and formulate strategies to address recurring issues in a sustainable way
- Cultivate a culture of motivation and achievement, building and maintaining trustful relationships with team members
- Address technical or analytical skill gaps, challenging team members to share knowledge and learn new technologies
- Constantly up to date with current software engineering best practices
- Craft and deliver persuasive arguments to drive projects for process improvement, cost leadership, and customer experience enhancement
- Manage up to leadership and provide feedback when necessary
- Develop and be accountable for the team budget, reporting on results achieved at regular intervals
- Mindset of efficiency and utilization improvements
- Contribute significantly to the team planning process, including surfacing team’s proposals
- Ability to construct roadmaps, manage and translate projects into deliverables, adjust priorities, and be able to understand and adjust the team capacity as needed
Preferred Qualifications
- One or more of the following or relevant certifications are a plus: AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Google Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer
