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Blue Shield of California · 6 hours ago

Platform Engineer, Principal

California, United States

Full-time

Hybrid

Lead/Staff

10+ years exp

Blue Shield of California is focused on enabling their journey to the cloud through innovative solutions. The Platform Engineer, Principal will design, build, and maintain Kubernetes and containerization technologies as a technical lead, guiding the team in developing scalable solutions and ensuring security compliance.

Financial ServicesHealth InsuranceNon Profit

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Design and implement scalable, robust Kubernetes solutions using Azure AKS to support application deployment and management

Define and deploy AKS 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

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

Accomplish all the above with Infrastructure-as-Code, primarily Terraform, via GitOps

Create automation and tools using languages such as Python 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

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

Provide support and troubleshooting for Kubernetes-related issues, working to resolve incidents quickly and efficiently

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

Qualification

KubernetesAzure AKSDockerTerraformPythonGoCKA CertificationAgile developmentSecurity best practices

Required

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 with cloud in a heavily regulated environment

In depth knowledge of cloud hosting providers, especially Microsoft Azure

Current CKA Certification or equivalent knowledge

Preferred

Proficiency in at least one relevant programming language (Python, Go) highly desired

Additional Kubernetes certifications strongly preferred

Experience working in an agile development environment is strongly desired

Experience working remotely is strongly desired

Company

Blue Shield of California

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Blue Shield of California is a health insurance service provider.

Founded in 1939

San Francisco, California, USA

5001-10000 employees

https://www.blueshieldca.com

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