DevOps Engineer, Senior
Blue Shield of California
Oakland, CA · Posted November 4, 2026
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About the job
Your Role
The Digital Platform team creates and maintains the foundation and features upon which Stellarus Digital Applications’ technical products are built . The DevOps Engineer, Senior will report to the Senior Manager, Digital Platform as your direct manager. In this role you will design, implement, and manage scalable, secure, and reliable cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines.
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 reusable Azure platform components, cloud automation frameworks, self-service capabilities and CI/CD solutions that improve scalability, reliability, and deployment efficiency.
Develop reusable Terraform, Bicep, GitOps, and platform engineering accelerators consumed across multiple teams , configuration management, and environment automation for complex applications or platforms.
Resolve complex production, deployment, and performance issues; drive root cause analysis and preventive improvements.
Design enterprise observability frameworks, SLO tracking, and operational excellence tooling, alerting, disaster recovery readiness, and operational practices to improve system resiliency and reduce downtime.
Implement Security-as-Code, Compliance-as-Code, and Policy-as-Code frameworks into infrastructure and pipeline design to support secure, governed delivery.
Lead platform adoption and developer experience improvements for less experienced engineers and promote DevOps best practices across engineering, QA, SRE, and platform teams.
Your Knowledge and Experience
Bachelor’s degree or High School Diploma/GED and 4 years of additional relevant experience in lieu of a degree
5 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.
Preferred Knowledge & Experience:
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.
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