Position Summary
GEICO is seeking an experienced Senior Manager with a passion for building high performance, highly available software-defined network platform. You will build and manage a team of engineers with a deep focus on delivering network solutions to shape our network architecture, driving innovation, and optimizing network performance to meet our evolving business needs. The current goal within the infrastructure organization is completely rebuilding the network capability from the ground up by utilizing Open SDN technologies such as SONiC and DENT.
Position Description
As our Distinguished Engineer you will be at the forefront of our Data Center Hybrid Cloud architecture, responsible for design, development and troubleshooting of high quality SDN solutions for next-gen network HW including Switch, SmartNIC, Load balancer and Firewall building a cohesive, robust system. You will lead the strategy and execution of a technical roadmap that will increase the velocity of delivering products and unlock new engineering capabilities with your deep technical expertise.
Our Senior Manager is an engineering leader who works with the engineering staff to innovate and build new engineering solutions, improve, and enhance existing solutions as well as leverage engineering solutions to solve critical operational problems. A Senior Manager will lead the strategy and execution of a technical roadmap that will increase the speed of delivering products and unlock new engineering capabilities. The ideal candidate has deep technical expertise in network software stack and SDN technologies and their applications in business settings and is able to navigate complexities to deliver high quality features and solutions in a timely manner.
Position Responsibilities

As a Senior Manager, you will::

• Work with your senior leadership to address project dependencies, negotiate and estimate incremental delivery dates for milestones with the stakeholder community, and deliver projects on time
• Management responsibility for a team of SDN and open source network stack engineers.
• Build robust SDN solutions to efficiently orchestrate, manage network devices for bare metal, IaaS, and PaaS services.
• Ownership of the end-to-end delivery of team strategy and platforms
• Identify and raise appropriate project risks, in addition to presenting detailed and implementable solutions or alternatives
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including storage and data engineers, developers, and cloud architects, to build high performance network solutions ensuring compatibility and integration with overall system architecture.
• Provide technical leadership and support related to SDN, including troubleshooting, and resolving any system issues to ensure high availability and performance.
• Drive continuous improvement by staying updated with emerging technologies and industry best practices, ensuring the security, stability, and scalability of the system architecture.

Qualifications

• Software and network system design knowledge and experience
• Management experience in Software-Defined network architectures and solutions with network operating systems such as open source SONiC, traditional network protocols such as BGP, HW abstraction layer such as Open Compute SAI and Switch/SmartNIC HW dataplane programming.
• Familiarity with virtualization technologies and their interaction with underlying storage infrastructures.
• Demonstrated conflict management, decision making and negotiation skills
• Proven ability to concentrate and demonstrate a capacity for learning technical concepts and adapting to new technologies quickly
• Strong understanding of Software-defined network infrastructure for Hybrid Cloud, including public and private cloud environments. Experience with SDN Controllers such as ONOS SD-Fabric
• Experience in Linux operating systems and programming languages such as C/C#, Java, Python, GoLang
• Excellent interpersonal and collaborative skills to work effectively with various teams within the organization, build strong relationships with stakeholders, and external partners.
• Constructing, interpreting, and applying metrics to your work and decision making, able to use those metrics to identify correlation between drivers and results, and using that information to drive prioritization and action

Desired Experience

• 10+ years of professional software development experience
• 8+ years of experience with systems architecture and design
• 4+ years of experience in open-source network solutions
• 4+ years of experience working with hyper scale cloud provider solutions
• 6+ years coding experience
• 5+ years of development in a large-scale, mission-critical environment
• 5+ years of hands-on work experience supervising personnel in network solutions
• 2+ years’ experience with automated testing including Unit, Integration, and End-to-End functional testing

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience

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