Platform Engineer, Principal

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, Principal 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.

Our leadership model is about developing great leaders at all levels and creating opportunities for our people to grow – personally, professionally, and financially. We are looking for leaders that are energized by creative and critical thinking, building and sustaining high-performing teams, getting results the right way, and fostering continuous learning.

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
• Help to establish, operate and continuously improve within a GitOps framework, leveraging your expertise to accelerate capabilities and practices for the product, team, department, and our partners across the organization
• Design, develop, and implement IaC solutions using Ansible to automate Azure cloud environments, including virtual machines, networking, storage, and other cloud services
• Prepare and 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 sustainable 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
• Serve as a thought leader, actively contributing to the ultimate success of BSC’s journey to the cloud
• 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 10 years of professional experience serving as a technical expert and thought leader in enterprise Platform development, and maintenance
• Requires hands on experience designing, developing, and managing cloud environments using Infrastructure-as-Code in a heavily regulated, GitOps and DevOps environment
• Prefers 5 years of in-depth knowledge and hands-on experience designing, developing, and managing cloud hosting providers, preferably Microsoft Azure
• Prefers 5 years of in-depth knowledge and hands-on experience designing, developing, and managing Linux Operating Systems
• Kubernetes experience strongly desired
• Additional Cloud Hosting Provider certifications strongly preferred
• Experience working in an agile development environment is strongly desired
• Experience working collaboratively with team while remote is required

 

Hybrid

This role requires employees to be in-office based on our hybrid workplace model, balancing purposeful in-person collaboration with flexibility. For most teams, this means coming into the office two days each week.

Employees living more than 50 miles from an office location will work with their manager to determine in-office time based on business need.