Staff Engineer, Hybrid Cloud Fabric

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Staff Engineer - Multi-Cloud Service Mesh

Position Summary:

Become a key player in GEICO's tech transformation! We are seeking a Senior or Staff Engineer with deep expertise in service mesh technologies to help implement modern, scalable, and secure communication fabric across our hybrid cloud environment. You will play a vital role in enabling seamless and secure communication between services, enhancing observability, and ensuring high availability and performance for our applications.

This job might be for you if:

* You are passionate about service mesh technologies and their role in building resilient and scalable microservices architectures.

* You enjoy exploring cutting-edge technologies and pushing the boundaries of what's possible.

* You are eager to contribute to the Istio community and share your expertise with others.

* You thrive in a collaborative environment and enjoy working with diverse teams to solve complex problems.

* You are excited by the opportunity to shape the future of GEICO's application infrastructure and contribute to our transformation into a cloud-native organization.

Responsibilities:

* Design and implement a robust service mesh architecture, encompassing traffic management, security, observability, and resilience for microservices across public and private clouds within our on-premises data centers.

* Integrate the service mesh with existing infrastructure and applications, ensuring seamless operation and interoperability with various platforms and technologies, including legacy systems.

* Establish and enforce service mesh best practices, including security policies, traffic routing rules, circuit breakers, and access control mechanisms, to maintain a secure and reliable application environment.

* Develop comprehensive monitoring and observability dashboards to provide deep insights into service mesh health, performance, and potential issues, enabling proactive problem identification and resolution.

* Guide and mentor engineers on service mesh principles and best practices, fostering knowledge sharing and expertise development within the team, empowering them to contribute effectively to the service mesh implementation.

* Work closely with networking and security teams to ensure secure and efficient integration of the service mesh with on-premises infrastructure and networks, addressing potential challenges and ensuring smooth operation.

* Partner with SREs to establish service mesh observability, monitoring, and alerting strategies for maintaining high availability and performance, collaborating to define SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets.

* Actively engage with the Istio community, contribute to open-source projects, and represent GEICO's leadership in service mesh adoption.

Technical

Skills:

* Service mesh expertise (dev):
You are familiar with mesh architecture, components, and configuration options, including advanced traffic management, security policies, and telemetry customization.

* Service mesh experience (ops):
You have designed, implemented, and managed service mesh solutions at scale, addressing challenges related to performance, security, and observability.

* Programming skills:

Experience with Go is a must;
Rust is a bonus.

* Linux OS:
In-depth knowledge of Linux operating systems, including performance tuning, troubleshooting, and security best practices.

* Networking:
Advanced understanding of networking concepts and tools (e.g., iptables, netfilter, traffic shaping) for analyzing and optimizing service mesh performance within the hybrid cloud environment.

* Kubernetes and containerization:
Extensive experience with…