DevOps Engineer, Senior

Blue Shield of California • Oakland, CA

3d

About The Position

The Digital Platform team creates and maintains the foundation and features on which Stellarus Digital Applications’ technical products are built. The Senior DevOps Engineer reports directly to the Senior Manager, Digital Platform and designs, implements, and manages scalable, secure, and reliable cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines. The role focuses on reusable Azure platform components, cloud automation, self-service capabilities, CI/CD solutions, and platform engineering accelerators used across multiple teams. It also advances observability, operational resilience, secure delivery, platform adoption, and developer experience.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree, or a high school diploma/GED plus four years of additional 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 implementing 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.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced experience with Azure or other major cloud platforms in regulated or enterprise environments.
• Experience with Kubernetes, container platforms, microservices, API gateways, or distributed systems.
• Experience mentoring engineers or promoting DevOps standards, patterns, and best practices across teams.
• Relevant certification such as Azure DevOps Engineer, AWS DevOps Engineer, Kubernetes CKA, or comparable certification.

Responsibilities

• Design reusable Azure platform components, cloud automation frameworks, self-service capabilities, and CI/CD solutions to improve scalability, reliability, and deployment efficiency.
• Develop reusable Terraform, Bicep, GitOps, and platform engineering accelerators for use across multiple teams, along with configuration management and environment automation for complex applications or platforms.
• Resolve complex production, deployment, and performance issues; conduct root cause analysis and implement preventive improvements.
• Design enterprise observability frameworks, SLO tracking, operational excellence tooling, alerting, disaster recovery readiness, and operational practices that improve resilience and reduce downtime.
• Implement Security-as-Code, Compliance-as-Code, and Policy-as-Code frameworks in infrastructure and pipeline design to support secure, governed delivery.
• Lead platform adoption and developer experience improvements for less experienced engineers.
• Promote DevOps best practices across engineering, QA, SRE, and platform teams.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior