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ID #40916842
State California
City Oakland
Job type Permanent
Salary USD TBD TBD
Source Blue Shield Of California
Showed 2022-05-15
Date 2022-05-14
Deadline 2022-07-13
Category Architect/engineer/CAD
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DevOps Engineer, Experienced

California, Oakland, 94601 Oakland USA

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Blue Shield of California's mission is to ensure all Californians have access to high-quality health care at a sustainably affordable price. We are transforming health care in a way that truly serves our nonprofit mission by lowering costs, improving quality, and enhancing the member and physician experience.

To fulfill our mission, we must ensure a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment where all employees can be their authentic selves and fully contribute to meet the needs of the multifaceted communities we serve. Our comprehensive approach to diversity, equity, and inclusion combines a focus on our people, processes, and systems with a deep commitment to promoting social justice and health equity through our products, business practices, and presence as a corporate citizen.

Blue Shield has received awards and recognition for being a certified Great Place to Work, best place to work for LGBTQ equality, leading disability employer, one of the best companies for women to advance, Bay Area's top companies in volunteering & giving, and one of the world's most ethical companies. Here at Blue Shield of California, we are striving to make a positive change across our industry and the communities we live in - join us!

Your Role

The Application Management team is responsible for engineering, operations, and maintenance of Blue Shield's application infrastructure hosting mission-critical and business-essential enterprise applications and associated components . The Experienced, Infrastructure Automation Engineer will report to the Senior Manager .

The Experienced Infrastructure Automation Engineer will assist with the transformation of how Blue Shield of California's Infrastructure Services department does work. In this role, the Experienced Infrastructure Automation Engineer will contribute to the establishment and evolution of a Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery automation framework to enhance infrastructure service delivery - better, faster, cheaper.

This will include assisting with the implementation of cloud-based infrastructure solutions, designing software-defined infrastructure solutions, establishing an SDLC (lifecycle) for infrastructure development, deployment, and operationalization, and conceptualizing emerging services and infrastructure innovation.

The ideal candidate must demonstrate a basic understanding of "DevOps" practices, tools, and methodologies and possess good automation skills. The candidate should possess a software development background preferably including the development of shared/common components and integrations. Experience with cloud and configuration management platforms, orchestration tools, and scripting languages is highly desired for this position.

The Experienced Infrastructure Automation Engineer will assist in the transformation and adherence of IT standards, patterns, policies, and processes critical to the foundation of automation.

Critical success factors for this position will be associated technical skills and experience in infrastructure automation and delivery and the related BSC technical platforms; teamwork and partnering; continual learning; being emblematic of transformation in infrastructure delivery capabilities; problem-solving and demonstrating versatility leading through change.

Your Work

In this role, you will:
  • Contribute to the establishment of a Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery automation framework for infrastructure service delivery
  • Assist with the culture change as our infrastructure teams move to infrastructure-as-code and standard development practices to transform how they do work
  • Understand and adopt new technologies and practices that contribute to holistic efficiencies in IT service delivery
  • Design and develop automation capabilities to reduce or eliminate manual tasks related to both application infrastructure delivery and the operations of the resulting solution
  • Promote and enable re-use of repeatable application architecture patterns
  • Contribute to the definition, maintenance and adherence to server, middleware and application infrastructure engineering standards and policies
  • Focus on optimizing core business environments availability and performance
  • Develop and maintain written procedures, engineering drawings and other technical documentation for accuracy of operational capabilities and knowledge across the team
  • Ensure system maintenance activities are routinely executed to remain compliant with standards, infrastructure currency policies and to prevent system problems
  • Coordinate and perform lifecycle and preventative maintenance of application infrastructure and related components including administrative tools
  • Communicate with engineers and managers within and outside the infrastructure services organization
  • Ensure system incidents and problems are properly identified and effectively resolved in accordance with policy and service-level agreements.
  • Work independently with limited supervision
  • Participate in rotational 24x7 on-call schedule

Your Knowledge and Experience
  • Bachelor's degree in Management Information Systems, Computer Engineering or Computer Science or equivalent professional experience
  • Requires at least 3 years of relevant experience including 1-3 years "DevOps" engineering-type experience
Technical :
  • CI/CD tools, i.e., Bitbucket/Git, Jenkins, NexArtifactory, etc.
  • Cloud platforms, i.e., AWS, Azure, VMWare, OpenShift, CloudFoundry, etc.
  • Scripting languages, i.e., Javascript, Ruby, Powershell, ANT, Jython, Python, Shell, etc.
  • Configuration Management tools, i.e., Puppet, Chef, Ansible, SCCM, etc.
  • Orchestration tools, i.e., ServiceNow, VMWare vRO, Heat etc.
  • Technical platforms: IBM WebSphere product suite, Microsoft Windows, Red Hat Linux (RHEL) and/or AIX operating systems, NAS, SAN storage systems, DB2, Oracle and SQL databases
  • Working knowledge of TCP/IP, HTTP, SSL, DNS, J2EE, LDAP, Active Directory, XML, IIS, Web Services/SOAP/REST, authentication protocols, SSH, and/or SFTP
  • Infrastructure and server theories, principles, architectures, and concepts
  • IaaS solutions, design, implementation, and integrations
  • Familiarity with DR and high-availability architectures
Behavioral :
  • Excellent interpersonal, communication, organization, and documentation skills
  • Strong ability to adapt to and learn new technologies, products, and applications
  • Strong troubleshooting and problem determination skills
  • Strong ability to build partnerships and influence others with the ability to earn the respect of technical personnel across application and infrastructure teams
  • Must be able to operate in a high-pressure environment while maintaining a productive attitude, ability to work through obstacles and comfort explaining complex technical issues to senior management
Additional Qualifications:
  • Experience with SCRUM / Agile development - a plus
  • Experience with supporting Cognizant Facets, McKesson applications - a plus
  • Experience with supporting EDIFECS application - a plus
  • Experience with ITIL or other IT operations methodologies - a plus
  • Healthcare/Payer operations experience - a plus

Our Values
  • Honest. We hold ourselves to the highest ethical and integrity standards. We build trust by doing what we say we're going to do and by acknowledging and correcting where we fall short
  • Human. We strive to be our authentic selves, listening and communicating effectively, and showing empathy towards others by walking in their shoes
  • Courageous. We stand up for what we believe in and are committed to the hard work necessary to achieve our ambitious goals
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