DevOps Engineer, Senior
Blue Shield of California2 days ago
Oakland, CA, USASenior
Responsibilities
- Design reusable Azure platform components, cloud automation frameworks, self-service capabilities, and CI/CD solutions.
- Develop Terraform, Bicep, GitOps, and platform engineering accelerators for multiple teams.
- Manage configuration and environment automation for complex applications and platforms.
- Resolve complex production, deployment, performance, and reliability issues through root-cause analysis and preventive improvements.
- Design observability frameworks, SLO tracking, alerting, disaster recovery readiness, and operational excellence tooling.
- Implement security-as-code, compliance-as-code, and policy-as-code controls in infrastructure and deployment pipelines.
- Lead platform adoption and developer-experience improvements while promoting DevOps practices across engineering, QA, SRE, and platform teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree, or a high school diploma/GED with four additional years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree.
- Five years of prior relevant experience.
- Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure, CI/CD architecture, automation, and release engineering practices.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code, configuration management, and automated environment provisioning for complex applications.
- Experience resolving complex deployment, production, performance, or reliability issues through root-cause analysis and corrective action.
- Knowledge of observability, monitoring, alerting, disaster recovery readiness, and service reliability practices.
- Experience embedding security, access, vulnerability, and compliance controls into infrastructure and deployment pipelines.
- Preferred: advanced Azure or other major cloud-platform experience in regulated or enterprise environments.
- Preferred: experience with Kubernetes, container platforms, API gateways, or distributed systems.
- Preferred: experience mentoring engineers or promoting DevOps standards, patterns, and best practices.
- Preferred: Azure DevOps Engineer, AWS DevOps Engineer, Kubernetes CKA, or comparable certification.
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About Blue Shield of California
Blue Shield of California is a nonprofit, tax-paying health plan that sells medical, dental, and vision insurance to individuals, employers, and Medicare/Medi-Cal beneficiaries across California. An independent member of the Blue Shield Association, it also administers government program plans. Founded in 1939 and headquartered in Oakland, the company serves nearly 6 million members statewide.