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CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield · 3 days ago

Lead Systems Automation Engineer (Ansible)-Hybrid

DC-Baltimore Area

Full-time

Hybrid

Lead/Staff

8+ years exp

CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield is seeking a Lead Systems Automation Engineer to define, design, and develop system requirements. The role involves performing trade-off analysis, assessing architecture, and coordinating design of subsystems, while also leading a team and mentoring junior members.

Health CareNon ProfitService Industry

H1B Sponsor Likely

Hiring Manager

Zipporah Williams

Responsibilities

Installs, tunes, upgrades, troubleshoots, and maintains all computer systems relevant to the supported applications including all necessary tasks to perform operating system administration, user account management, disaster recovery strategy and networking configuration

Develop and implement techniques to prevent system problems, troubleshoots incidents to recover services, and support the root cause analysis

Evaluates new systems by performing in-depth tests, including end-user reviews

Researches software and related products to support recommendations and purchasing

Determines systems integration issues by evaluating components; developing and completing performance tests; analyzing test data; studying project requirements; analyzing user and potential user input; evaluating similar and related products and systems

Develop system automation and system integration of business processes

Improves engineering job knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; benchmarking state-of-the-art practices; participating in professional societies

Acts as a mentor for junior and senior team members

Leads a team utilizing a matrix management system

Qualification

AWS certificationsAnsibleTerraformPythonLinux System administrationCloud technologiesContainersCI/CD toolsShell scriptingNetworking skillsSoft skills

Required

Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology or Computer Science OR in lieu of a Bachelor's degree, an additional 4 years of relevant work experience is required in addition to the required work experience

AWS certifications, minimum of One is required

8 years proven success overseeing the design, development, and implementation of software systems and applications

Previous Linux System administration is required

Must be well versed in writing Terraform plans, Ansible playbooks, and Python code

Must be well versed in writing Linux Bash scripts

Must Have Hands on current Implementation and Production level experience AWS Cloud

Current and actual Production level experience with Terraform and Ansible is Required

Must have strong hands-on knowledge of AWS platform and services but not limited to VPC, Subnets, NACLs, Security Groups, EC2, S3, IAM, ELBs, Lambdas, Cloud Watch, CloudTrail, EKS etc

Experience with AWS CLI is desired

Minimum of One AWS certification is required

Solid understanding and experience with a CI/CD tool chain

10+ years of overall experience in IT including hands-on Development and Systems engineering background

Communicates Architectural decisions, plans, goals, and strategies, while highlighting short-term trade-offs vs. long-term commitments and costs

Engage in and improve the end-to-end Lifecycle of services, starting from Inception & design, deployment, operations, and refinement

Willingness to roll up the sleeves to investigate issues and engage Customers is required

Willingness and aptitude to learn New AWS services and other technologies as required

Systems Scalability and sustainability leveraging automation and strive to improve our systems with changes that improve reliability and velocity

Be part of our Cloud journey and as a member of our team help lead Software automation and reliability of our platforms

Actively participate and help guide customers on using Cloud-native design and architecture patterns

Provide Consultation on Technology infrastructure planning and engineering for assigned systems; Assesses the implications of technology strategies on infrastructure capabilities

Build strategy to migrate Legacy applications by conversion to multiple Microservices and hosting on AWS Cloud platform

Leverage Cloud-native architecture components including Containers, immutable infrastructure, Microservices, Service Mesh etc., to build highly available and Fault tolerant applications

Research on the global technology trends and their applicability to FEPOC products in support of our internal development teams and business

Promotes and ensures Modern application design, applies engineering best practices in the development and operations life cycle and mitigates vulnerabilities

Monitors and manages the Stability, Availability, and Performance of enterprise systems and platforms across IT domains

Maintain and continually improve (patch and upgrade) our Cloud-based infrastructure

Makes data-driven recommendations and decisions and continuously improves the overall efficacy and efficiency of our software delivery capability

Mentoring peers as well as engaging with others across teams and socializing solutions

Understanding of Cloud Native Architecture

Linux, Shell scripting, and general admin skills

Network, Security, Plugins, & Storage Skills

AWS skills: EC2, S3, EBS, EFS, IAM, VPC, Lambda etc

Cloud and DevOps certifications, e.g., AWS or Azure Solutions Architect and CKA

Strong skills are desired in each of the following areas

Development: Experience programming with one or more languages: Python, Java, Groovy, Go, etc

IAC Tools for Platform Automation: Strong skills and experience in at least one: Ansible, and Terraform, AWS Cloud formation, CDK

Containers: Docker or other OCI-certified containers- is a Plus

Container Orchestration Platform: Experience with Kubernetes, AWS EKS, AWS ECS is a plus

Service Mesh: Istio, AWS App Mesh, OpenShift Service Mesh etc

Platform Monitoring, Observability, & Performance Tools: Data Dog, Cloud Watch etc

DevOps Tools: Git/Repo, Crucible, Bitbucket, Jira, Ansible, Puppet, Jenkins, Argo CD, Bamboo, Maven, Artifactory, Nexus etc

Preferred

Minimum of 10 years of IT experience of which at least 5 years must be in Automation and Administration

Experience with integrating other tools like CyberArk, Datadog, F5, WebSeal, Venafi is desired

Hands-on experience with Containers, Amazon EKS is a big plus

A great understanding of various DevOps toolchains, including Git/repo, Crucible, Jenkins etc

Experience with Datacenter migration and Enterprise Cloud transformation efforts

Experience with SRE principles and transformation

3+ years of experience with implementation of Containerization (Kubernetes), Cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, or Google, etc.), DevOps tool chain (Ansible, Jenkins, Artifactory, bitbucket, etc.), and technical patterns (IaC, Automated Provisioning/Release, CI/CD, etc.)

Experience in Developing and/or challenging engineering solutions/practices and collaborating with peers within and outside of immediate team, including customers (Dev, Architects, Engineers)

Company

CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield

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CareFirst. It’s not just our name. It’s our promise.

Founded in 1934

Baltimore, Maryland, USA

5001-10000 employees

https://individual.carefirst.com

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