Platform Engineer, Senior

Your Role

The Developer & Employee Experience Team serves at the direction of the Sr. Director of Technical Engineering, enabling BSC's journey to the cloud. The Platform Engineer, Senior, will report to the Sr. Manager of Technical Engineering. In this role you will design, build, and maintain our Internal Developer Platform (BlueStack), enabling operational excellence for Blue Shield of CA, our trading partners, and provider networks.

Your Work

In this role, you will:

• Design, deploy and support our provider agnostic Cloud Enablement Developer Platform (BlueStack), actively contributing to the achievement of our future state goals and ensuring current success and operational excellence
• Operate within a GitOps framework, leveraging your expertise to accelerate capabilities and practices for the product, team, department, and our partners across the organization
• Collaborate with team members to implement and manage reusable and scalable IaC solutions leveraging Ansible to automate Azure cloud environments, including virtual machines, networking, storage, and other cloud services
• Support and maintain cloud enablement solutions (Kubernetes, OpenShift), staying informed of OEM upgrades and executing all aspects of lifecycle management
• Maintain detailed system diagrams and technical documentation and specifications as required and necessary to ensure and maintain consistently exceptional quality in our operations
• Work closely with cross-functional teams, including DevOps, development, and operations, to integrate IaC practices into the software development lifecycle and ensure seamless infrastructure changes
• Collaborate with all levels of business and IT unit functions to determine design, application, integration and optimal use of information systems
• Consult, guide and assist users, developers, analysts, and leaders across all levels of the organization in leveraging the Platform's capabilities to solve business problems
• Lead and assist in ensuring compliance with our solutions and the security of company data and assets

Your Knowledge and Experience

• Requires a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• Requires 5 or more years of professional experience serving as a technical expert and thought leader in enterprise Platform development, and maintenance
• Requires hands on experience managing cloud environments in a heavily regulated, DevOps environment
• Requires in depth knowledge of Microsoft Azure
• Requires proficiency in at least one relevant programming language (Python, C#, Java, etc.)
• Prefers current AZ-400 Certification or equivalent knowledge
• Prefers current RedHat DO-007 and/or DO-417 and/or DO-374 Certification or equivalent knowledge
• Kubernetes experience strongly desired
• Additional Cloud Hosting Provider certifications strongly preferred
• Experience working in an agile development environment is strongly desired
• Experience working remotely is strongly desired

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