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UATX

Open-Rank Professor of History

Austin, TX

CEPH scholars seek to understand the enlightenment values of Western civilization that culminated in the U.S. Constitution as well as the economic growth and technological progress that are the ...

UATX

Open-Rank Professor of History

Austin, TX · On-site

CEPH scholars seek to understand the enlightenment values of Western civilization that culminated in the U.S. Constitution as well as the economic growth and technological progress that are the ...

UATX

Open-Rank Professor of History

Austin, TX · On-site

CEPH scholars seek to understand the enlightenment values of Western civilization that culminated in the U.S. Constitution as well as the economic growth and technological progress that are the ...

Brivo

Platform Engineering Manager

Austin, TX · On-site

Oversee platform support for distributed storage technologies including Ceph and other high-throughput, high-availability storage systems. * Ensure the platform and data layers interoperate ...

UATX

Visiting Professor of American History

Austin, TX · On-site

CEPH scholars study the Enlightenment principles behind the U.S. Constitution as well as the modern economic and technological forces that underpin American power, combining historical, political ...

UATX

Visiting Professor of American History

Austin, TX · On-site

CEPH scholars study the Enlightenment principles behind the U.S. Constitution as well as the modern economic and technological forces that underpin American power, combining historical, political ...

Amatriot Group, LLC

OpenShift Engineer

Dallas, TX · On-site

$52.25 - $71.50/hr

Support Ceph Administration. Application Migration and Containerization * Assist project teams with application migrations to Platform-as-a-Service offerings. * Support related application migration ...

BitDeer

AI Storage Solutions Expert

Austin, TX · On-site +1

WEKA, VAST Data, Ceph, DDN/Lustre. Design storage architectures optimized for AI workload patterns - checkpoint I/O bursts, sequential dataset reads, KV cache for inference. * Implement multi-tenant ...

Brivo

Platform Engineering Manager

Austin, TX · On-site

Provide technical leadership for large-scale distributed data systems and storage integration (e.g., Ceph and high-throughput messaging systems). * Ensure the platform and data layers interoperate ...

Peyton Resource Group

OpenShift Engineer

Dallas, TX

$52.25 - $71.50/hr

OpenShift Administration OpenShift Data Foundation OpenShift Platform Plus Advanced Cluster Management Advanced Cluster Security Ceph Administration Extensive knowledge of Linux containers (Docker ...

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What is a Ceph?

A Ceph job typically involves managing, deploying, and maintaining Ceph, an open-source distributed storage system. Responsibilities may include configuring storage clusters, monitoring performance, troubleshooting issues, and ensuring data redundancy and scalability. Professionals in this role often work with Linux, networking, and automation tools to optimize storage solutions for enterprises and cloud environments.

What does a Ceph do?

As a Ceph Storage Administrator, your typical day involves monitoring the health and performance of the Ceph cluster, responding to alerts, and proactively addressing issues to maintain data integrity and uptime. You will also be responsible for upgrading and patching the cluster, managing user access, and performing capacity planning. Collaboration with application and infrastructure teams is key to understanding storage needs and ensuring seamless data workflows. Additionally, you may create and maintain technical documentation and participate in on-call rotations as part of a broader IT operations team. These tasks help ensure the stability and scalability of mission-critical storage systems.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed for a Ceph?

To thrive as a Ceph (Ceph Storage Administrator or Engineer), you need a solid background in Linux systems administration, distributed storage concepts, and networking fundamentals, typically supported by a degree in computer science or a related field. Proficiency with Ceph deployment tools, monitoring platforms, and scripting languages like Python or Bash, as well as relevant certifications such as Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE), are highly valuable. Strong problem-solving skills, meticulous attention to detail, and the ability to communicate technical concepts clearly with colleagues are important soft skills for this role. These competencies ensure high availability and reliability of storage systems, effective troubleshooting, and smooth collaboration within IT teams.

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Distinguished Engineer - Private Cloud Platform Engineering

Geico

Richardson, TX • On-site

Full-time

Posted 6 days ago

GEICO rating

8.0

Company rating: 8.0 out of 10

Based on 363 frontline employees who took The Breakroom Quiz

164th of 309 rated insurance

Job description

Why Join GEICO?

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 on relentless innovation to exceed our customers' expectations while making a real impact on local communities nationwide.

Founded in 1936, GEICO is a member of the Berkshire Hathaway family of companies and one of the largest auto insurers in the United States. 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.

Distinguished Engineer - Private Cloud Platform Engineering

Position Summary

GEICO is seeking a transformational Distinguished Engineer to lead the technical vision, architecture, and evolution of our next-generation private cloud platform. This role willbe responsible fordriving the strategy, design, and implementation of a highly scalable, secure, and operationally efficient cloud ecosystem built on OpenStack, Kubernetes, Ceph, and Software Defined Networking technologies.

As one of GEICO's most senior technical leaders, you will define the future-state architecture for our multi-region private cloud, influence technology decisions across Infrastructure, Security, Platform Engineering, and Developer Experience organizations, and help accelerate GEICO's modernization journey. You will partner with engineering leaders, architects, and executives to build cloud capabilities that rival public cloud providers whileleveragingopen-source technologies and commodity hardware tooptimizecost, resilience, and scalability.

This role requires deepexpertisein cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, networking, storage architecture, and platform engineering along with the ability toinfluence acrossorganizational boundaries and mentor senior engineering talent.

What You Will Do

Technical Strategy & Architecture

  • 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.

Private Cloud Platform Leadership

  • Architect and evolve a large-scale OpenStack-based Infrastructure-as-a-Service platform.

  • Define multi-region designs supporting virtual machines, 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.

Software Defined Networking

  • Definesoftware-defined networking architectures spanning datacenter and hybrid cloud environments.

  • Drive innovations in network virtualization, overlay technologies, routing automation, load balancing,firewallintegration, and network observability.

  • Partner closely with networking teams to design scalable east-west and north-south traffic architectures.

Software Defined Storage

  • Provide technical leadership for large-scale Ceph deployments supporting block, object, and cloud-native storage services.

  • Designhighly availablestorage architectures for OpenStack, Kubernetes, and application platforms.

  • Drive capacity planning, performance optimization, data durability, disaster recovery, and operational excellence initiatives.

Engineering Leadership

  • MentorSenior 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.

Required Qualifications

Experience

  • 15+ years of software, infrastructure, cloud, or platform engineering experience.

  • 5+yearsoperatingat Principal, Senior Staff, Distinguished Engineer, or equivalent technical leadership level.

  • Proventrack recorddesigning andoperatinglarge-scale cloud platforms supporting thousands of workloads.

Technical Expertise

Kubernetes

  • Deepexpertisein Kubernetes architecture, operations, networking, storage, security, and ecosystem tooling.

  • Experience with platform engineering and internal developer platforms.

OpenStack

  • Extensive experience with OpenStack services including:

  • Nova

  • Neutron

  • Cinder

  • Glance

  • Keystone

  • Ironic

  • Placement

  • Experience designing andoperating productionOpenStack environments at scale.

Ceph

  • Expert knowledge of Ceph architecture and operations.

  • Experience with:

  • RBD

  • RGW

  • OSD tuning

  • Performance optimization

  • Multi-site deployments

  • Capacity and durability planning

Software Defined Networking

  • Deep understanding of SDN principles and architectures.

  • Experience with technologies such as:

  • EVPN/VXLAN

  • BGP

  • Overlay networking

  • SmartNICtechnologies

  • Network virtualization

  • Cloud networking

  • Service mesh architectures

Automation & Software Engineering

  • Strong coding skills in one or more of:

  • Go

  • Python

  • Rust

  • Java

  • Expertisewith Infrastructure-as-Code and automation frameworks.

  • Experience buildinghighly reliabledistributed systems.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience building private cloud environments that compete with hyperscale cloud capabilities.

  • Experience migrating workloads from VMware or other legacy virtualization platforms.

  • Familiarity with AI/ML infrastructure platforms, GPU orchestration, and high-performance computing environments.

  • Experience operating infrastructure atmulti-petabyte scale.

  • Experience with platform observability and SRE practices.

  • Strong understanding of cybersecurity, compliance, and zero-trust architecture.

What Success Looks Like

Within the first 12 months, this leader will:

  • Improve developer experience through self-service infrastructure and platform capabilities.

  • Accelerate migration from legacy virtualization platforms to modern open-source alternatives.

  • Increase platform reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency across GEICO datacenters.

  • Establish engineering standards and architectural patterns adopted across multiple infrastructure organizations.

  • Influence technology direction well beyond their immediate team through technical leadership, mentorship, and innovation.

Why This Role Matters

This Distinguished Engineer will play a critical role in shaping GEICO's future infrastructure platform-building a secure, scalable, software-defined private cloud capable of supporting the company's next decade of growth while improving agility, resiliency, and cost efficiency.


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Annual Salary

$140,000.00 - $300,000.00

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.


GEICO will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.


The GEICO Pledge:

Great Company:Protecting customers through life's twists and turns with innovation and integrity.

Great Careers:Personalized development programs, mentorship, and certification assistance.

Great Culture:Inclusive and collaborative culture rooted in shared success.

Great Rewards:Competitive pay, benefits, and flexibility to support your well-being and future.

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.

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About GEICO

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GEICO is built on ingenuity, perseverance, innovation, resilience, and hard, honest work. From its humble beginnings in the midst of the Great Depression to its current place as one of the most successful companies in the nation, GEICO represents a quintessential American success story. At GEICO, we love that our associates are proud goal-seekers, and that's why we believe in celebrating their milestones and rewarding their achievements. Throughout the year we reward performance and accomplishments, host programs that recognize personal successes, and acknowledge innovation, service, and leadership.

Industry

Insurance services

Company size

10,000+ Employees

Headquarters location

Chevy Chase, MD, US

Year founded

1936

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