Senior Staff Cloud Engineer: OpenStack, CI/CD & Automation

Government Employees Insurance Company; Bethesda (MD); On-site; USD 110,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

GEICO seeks a Senior Staff Engineer to design, deploy, and maintain OpenStack-based environments and automate cloud operations. You will help optimize CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and observability to support a large-scale insurance platform.

The role emphasizes Python scripting, Ansible playbooks, and collaboration across teams to drive engineering excellence and a culture of psychological safety. On-call and mentoring are part of the responsibilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience.
• 8+ years of professional experience in cloud engineering, platform administration, or infrastructure automation.
• 8+ years of experience with OpenStack or similar cloud platforms.
• 8+ years of experience with Python and Ansible.
• Experience with hybrid or multi-cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure, or on-premises).
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools and containerization technologies (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD).
• Strong experience with monitoring, logging, alerting and observability in cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Improve monitoring, observability and performance of deployed systems.
• Design, deploy, and manage OpenStack-based cloud environments.
• Develop and maintain automation scripts and playbooks using Python, Ansible, and GitHub Workflows.
• Implement and optimize CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application delivery.
• Support containerization initiatives (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues in cloud and automation workflows.
• Collaborate with development, operations, and security teams.
• Share best practices and improve processes within and across teams.
• Participate in on-call and operational support as needed.
• Mentor junior engineers.

Skills

Python

CI/CD

OpenStack

Ansible

GitHub Actions

Docker

Kubernetes

Monitoring/Observability

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

OpenStack

Grafana

Prometheus

Job description

GEICO seeks a Senior Staff Engineer to design, deploy, and maintain OpenStack-based environments and automate cloud operations. You will help optimize CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and observability to support a large-scale insurance platform.

The role emphasizes Python scripting, Ansible playbooks, and collaboration across teams to drive engineering excellence and a culture of psychological safety. On-call and mentoring are part of the responsibilities.