Senior Cloud Platform Architect – Private Cloud

GEICO; Richardson (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

GEICO is seeking a Distinguished Engineer to lead the private cloud platform strategy, architecture, and evolution across OpenStack, Kubernetes, Ceph, and SDN. You will influence Infrastructure, Security, Platform Engineering, and Developer Experience to build a scalable, secure cloud ecosystem using open-source technologies and commodity hardware.

As a senior leader, you will mentor engineers, drive modernization, and partner with executives to advance GEICO's cloud capabilities while

Qualifications

• 15+ years of software, infrastructure, cloud, or platform engineering experience.
• 5+ years operating at Principal, Senior Staff, Distinguished Engineer, or equivalent technical leadership level.
• Proven track record designing and operating large-scale cloud platforms supporting thousands of workloads.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the long-term technical roadmap for GEICO's Private Cloud Platform.
• Establish architectural standards for OpenStack, Kubernetes, Ceph, SDN, identity integration, observability, and automation platforms.
• Lead design reviews across multiple organizations and drive architectural consistency throughout the infrastructure ecosystem.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend strategic investments that improve platform capabilities, operational excellence, and cost efficiency.
• Architect and evolve a large-scale OpenStack-based Infrastructure-as-a-Service platform.
• Define multi-region designs supporting VMs, bare metal services, storage, networking, and container platforms.
• Drive modernization initiatives including platform resiliency, disaster recovery, multi-datacenter expansion, and workload migration from legacy virtualization platforms.
• Partner with security teams to implement Zero Trust networking, workload identity, encryption, and compliance controls.
• Define software-defined networking architectures spanning datacenter and hybrid cloud environments.
• Drive innovations in network virtualization, overlay technologies, routing automation, load balancing, firewall integration, and network observability.
• Provide technical leadership for large-scale Ceph deployments supporting block, object, and cloud-native storage services.
• Design highly available storage architectures for OpenStack, Kubernetes, and application platforms.
• Drive capacity planning, performance optimization, data durability, disaster recovery, and operational excellence initiatives.
• Mentor Senior Staff, Principal, and Staff Engineers.
• Lead critical incident reviews, architecture reviews, and technical decision-making forums.
• Build alignment across infrastructure, security, platform, and application engineering organizations.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to executive leadership for private cloud strategy and investment decisions.

Skills

Kubernetes

OpenStack

Ceph

Software Defined Networking

Automation & Software Engineering

Python

Go

Java

Job description

GEICO is seeking a Distinguished Engineer to lead the private cloud platform strategy, architecture, and evolution across OpenStack, Kubernetes, Ceph, and SDN. You will influence Infrastructure, Security, Platform Engineering, and Developer Experience to build a scalable, secure cloud ecosystem using open-source technologies and commodity hardware.

As a senior leader, you will mentor engineers, drive modernization, and partner with executives to advance GEICO's cloud capabilities while