
GEICO
Summary:
GEICO’s Infrastructure and Capacity Planning is seeking an experienced Senior Manager to build and manage a new team of engineers who are passionate about building engineering solutions – tools, framework, and automation in cloud cost modeling and capacity optimization domains. This is a newly created organization with a deep focus to enable optimal cloud capacity for all application teams to run enterprise-wide products. Our workloads are spread between On-prem, Azure, and AWS and you will have exciting opportunities to solve complex problems in Hybrid-cloud model. You can create a massive impact on our customers’ experience and GEICO’s new mission towards Technology transformation.
Description:
Our Senior Manager is an engineering leader who will lead members of the engineering staff working across the organization to provide a seamless experience for our customers by enabling right capacity at right time and right cost. Our team thrives and succeeds in delivering high-quality technology products and services in a hyper-growth environment where priorities shift quickly. The ideal candidate has broad and deep technical knowledge and experience to improve cost modeling, capacity planning, cloud/infrastructure architecture, and leverage engineering solutions to solve operational problems.
Responsibilities:
As a Senior Manager, you will:
- Lead development and execution of cost reporting for all hybrid multi-cloud environments to enable total cost of ownership analysis including cloud hosting costs, software license and maintenance, as well as support labor costs.
- Define requirements for automating cloud cost modeling and optimization process in a multi-cloud environment to streamline reporting and allocation of costs to customers.
- Lead our Hybrid Cloud FinOps processes like financial forecasting for cloud services and support management of Capex and operational budgets if required.
- Partner with key stakeholders to provide visibility on cloud infrastructure spend as well as monthly optimization activities to reduce the spend.
- Partner with key stakeholders to ensure service levels are met through regular operational reviews and ongoing cadence.
- Partner with Capacity Planning, Performance & Reliability, IaaS, PaaS and other stakeholders to provide input into the design, communication and implementation of Strategies, Technology Roadmaps, Processes and Services and validation of their cost-effectiveness.
- Provide detailed analysis for various components of cloud spend such as spend by service type, spend by application, etc.
- Provide financial consultation to application teams on cost assessment of migrating across the hybrid cloud.
- Identify the roles, skills and knowledge required including helping to grow and develop the team through hands-on training and coaching.
- Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams.
Qualifications:
- Hands-on Software engineering manager with strong understanding of Cloud services and DevOps principles.
- Experience in managing different cloud billing & reduction models.
- Expert in Cloud cost billing schema & billing utilization data for different CSPs.
- In-depth knowledge of cloud infrastructures, capabilities and security models (all of which drive the cost).
- In-depth knowledge of data structures and algorithms.
- Fluency with Power BI and at least one modern language such as Python, Java, Go. Experience with open-source software is a big plus.
- Hands-on experience in managing infrastructure components through Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Ansible.
- Experience in Observability platforms, application monitoring tools and performance analysis techniques.
- Experience managing & growing technical leaders and teams.
Experience:
- 6+ years of coding experience.
- 5+ years of development of tooling and engineering solutions in a large-scale, mission-critical environment.
- 5+ years of hands-on work experience supervising personnel in a technical environment.
- 5+ years of experience with one of the public clouds – AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service.
Education:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience.
Benefits:
As an Associate, you’ll enjoy our Total Rewards Program* to help secure your financial future and preserve your health and well-being, including:
- Premier Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance with no waiting period**
- Paid Vacation, Sick and Parental Leave
- 401(k) Plan
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Paid Training and Licensures
*Benefits may be different by location. Benefit eligibility requirements vary and may include length of service.
**Coverage begins on the date of hire. Must enroll in New Hire Benefits within 30 days of the date of hire for coverage to take effect.
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