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 Kubernetes and related technologies in service of our Internal Developer Platform (BlueStack), enabling operational excellence for Blue Shield of CA, our trading partners, and provider networks. 

In this role, you will: 

• Design and build technical specifications: Design and implement scalable, robust Kubernetes solutions using OpenShift, Azure AKS, and Google GKE to support application deployment and management 

• Deployment and Management: Deploy and manage self-service Kubernetes clusters across various environments, ensuring optimal performance, security, and reliability 

• Containerization: Develop and maintain Docker container images, implementing best practices for image management, security, and performance optimization 

• Monitoring and Optimization: Implement monitoring and logging solutions to track performance, identify issues, and optimize Kubernetes environments for efficiency and scalability to realize observability 

• Automation and Scripting: Create automation scripts and tools using languages such as Python, Bash, or Go to streamline cluster management, deployment, and scaling processes 

• Security and Compliance: Ensure that Kubernetes clusters adhere to security policies and compliance standards, implementing security best practices and conducting regular audits 

• Collaboration: Work closely with development, operations, and security teams to align Kubernetes solutions with business needs and integrate them into existing workflows. 

• Troubleshooting and Support: Provide support and troubleshooting for Kubernetes-related issues, working to resolve incidents quickly and efficiently. 

• Documentation: Maintain comprehensive documentation of Kubernetes configurations, procedures, and best practices to facilitate knowledge sharing and onboarding. 

• 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 

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 operation 

• Strong hands-on experience managing cloud environments in a heavily regulated, DevOps environment 

• Proficiency in at least one relevant programming language (Python, C#, Java, etc.) highly desired 

• In depth knowledge of cloud hosting providers, including Microsoft Azure highly desired 

• Current CKA Certification or equivalent knowledge highly desired 

• Additional Kubernetes certifications strongly preferred 

• Experience working in an agile development environment is strongly desired 

• Experience working remotely is strongly desired