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At GEICO, we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless possibilities. Every day we honor our iconic brand by offering quality coverage to millions of customers and being there when they need us most. We thrive through relentless innovation to exceed our customers’ expectations while making a real impact for our company through our shared purpose. When you join our company, we want you to feel valued, supported, and proud to work here. That’s why we offer The GEICO Pledge: Great Company, Great Culture, Great Rewards and Great Careers. Position Summary GEICO is seeking an experienced Staff Engineer with a passion for building Collaboration solutions that will drive successful outcomes for all employees. You will help drive our insurance business transformation as we transition from a traditional IT model to a tech organization with engineering excellence as its mission, while co-creating the culture of psychological safety and continuous improvement. Position Description Our team is dedicated to delivery high quality meeting, chat and telephony collaboration experiences. The Collaboration Staff Engineer will be a key member of the platform engineering staff working across the organization to provide technical architecture guidance & leadership for the team working across technical and functional boundaries. The ideal candidate has broad and deep technical knowledge and has experience in collaboration transformation projects migrating platforms from on-premises to the cloud. Position Responsibilities As a Staff Engineer, you will: Lead projects involving major business collaboration platforms and advocates for best practices Develop and obtain consensus on enterprise-wide design and architectural guidelines and policies Assume Service Ownership of existing business collaboration platform and services Manage end to end voice and video quality by working closely with the network and telecom team to provide capacity recommendations Drive enhancement and continuously improve the quality of collaboration services and end user experience Implement platform upgrades and feature expansions to existing collaboration platforms Define technical architecture and support the implementation of new collaboration services from technical perspective Provide technical leadership in driving projects migrating from existing platforms to new platforms Contribute to decision making and drive projects involving major business collaboration platforms such as Zoom and Slack. Drive proof of concepts to test new technologies and collaboration platforms working closely with network and telecommunication teams Assure 24x7 operations and stability of collaboration services with high regard for end user experience Support the creation of the enterprise level roadmap in terms of collaboration for the future business demands Scope, design, and build scalable, resilient systems Provide knowledge share, mentoring, and systems training to junior team members as needed Consistently share best practices, and improve processes within and across teams Contribute to significant business initiatives, attend scrum meetings, and give presentations Solve difficult problems, learn new technologies, and push the boundaries of what is possible Work to understand and build product definition and leverage your technical skills to drive towards the right solution Qualifications: Must have skills: 6+ years of engineering experience on Slack, Zoom and SaaS Telephony platforms. 4+ years of experience with any scripting and API integration. Additional Skills: 3+ years of experience with architecture and design 3+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service 2+ years of experience in open-source frameworks Experience: Experience in decision making and driving projects involving major collaboration platforms such as Slack and Zoom. Experience with configuration and management of SaaS telephony platforms Experience triaging complex call flows across the environments to include log collection and packet capture Experience with Active Directory and Azure AD Experience with vendor management and technical support Experience leading incident bridges and live troubleshooting during outages Understanding of the security and compliance needs of the business and how they apply to the Collaboration suite, including certificates and secure communication Understanding of networking protocols, devices, and telephony applications Understanding and ability to correlate alerts into problem resolutions, including custom alerts with thresholds for greater availability and stability Strong problem-solving ability Strong oral and written communication skills Ability to excel in a fast-paced environment Education Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience Annual Salary $115,000.00 - $230,000.00 The above annual salary range is a general guideline. Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final hourly rate/ annual salary to be offered to the selected candidate. Factors include, but are not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the role, the selected candidate’s work experience, education and training, the work location as well as market and business considerations. At this time, GEICO will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position. The GEICO Pledge: Great Company: At GEICO, we help our customers through life’s twists and turns. Our mission is to protect people when they need it most and we’re constantly evolving to stay ahead of their needs. We’re an iconic brand that thrives on innovation, exceeding our customers’ expectations and enabling our collective success. From day one, you’ll take on exciting challenges that help you grow and collaborate with dynamic teams who want to make a positive impact on people’s lives. Great Careers: We offer a career where you can learn, grow, and thrive through personalized development programs, created with your career – and your potential – in mind. You’ll have access to industry leading training, certification assistance, career mentorship and coaching with supportive leaders at all levels. Great Culture: We foster an inclusive culture of shared success, rooted in integrity, a bias for action and a winning mindset. Grounded by our core values, we have an an established culture of caring, inclusion, and belonging, that values different perspectives. Our teams are led by dynamic, multi-faceted teams led by supportive leaders, driven by performance excellence and unified under a shared purpose. As part of our culture, we also offer employee engagement and recognition programs that reward the positive impact our work makes on the lives of our customers. Great Rewards: We offer compensation and benefits built to enhance your physical well-being, mental and emotional health and financial future. Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your family’s overall well-being. Financial benefits including market-competitive compensation; a 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match; performance and recognition-based incentives; and tuition assistance. Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance. Supports flexibility- We provide workplace flexibility as well as our GEICO Flex program, which offers the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year. The equal employment opportunity policy of the GEICO Companies provides for a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, familial status, disability or genetic information, in compliance with applicable federal, state and local law. GEICO hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled. GEICO reasonably accommodates qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to receive equal employment opportunity and/or perform the essential functions of the job, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship to the Company. This applies to all applicants and associates. GEICO also provides a work environment in which each associate is able to be productive and work to the best of their ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment. We expect and require the cooperation of all associates in maintaining an atmosphere free from discrimination and harassment with mutual respect by and for all associates and applicants. #J-18808-Ljbffr GEICO

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