Your Role

The Cloud Engineering team is a cross functional group responsible for the advancement and support of the Blue Shield multi cloud presence. The Cloud Engineer - Principal will report to the Sr. Director Hybrid Cloud Engineering. In this role you will have a broad and deep impact on how Blue Shield achieves its business and technical goals by leveraging cloud technologies within modern operating models.

Your Work

In this role, you will:

• Architect, design, deploy, and support scalable, secure, highly available, and reliable workloads across a multi-cloud presence (Azure, GCP, and AWS); Actively contribute to future-state goals and road mapping
• Strong focus on Cloud Networking: design, provision, support; Network automation development via Ansible required
• Strategize and road map GitOps/IaC concepts and related tooling to execute operations (Version Control Systems, Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment, self-service automation platforms); analyze team capabilities and chart future-state goals
• Collaborate across a multi-functional team (DevOps model) in support of a product-centric organization
• Actively contribute to the development and future direction of cloud governance decision making and processes

Your Knowledge and Experience

• 10+ years hands-on administration and design experience of a wide array of cloud services across Azure, GCP, and AWS or relevant experience
• 7+ years of hands-on experience with routing, firewalls, load balancers, and IPAM solutions or relevant experience; Network automation via Ansible
• Experience working in DevOps environments; knowledge of GitOps concepts
• 7+ years of hands-on programming/scripting (e.g., Python, Go, Ruby) and software configuration management experience (e.g., Ansible)
• 7+ years of Linux and/or Windows Administration experience
• 4+ years of hands-on experience administering container orchestration solutions or relevant experience
• 7+ years of hands-on experience administering monitoring and logging tooling (e.g., Azure Monitor, Splunk)

Pay Range:

The pay range for this role is: $ 145200.00 to $ 217800.00 for California.

Note:

Please note that this range represents the pay range for this and many other positions at Blue Shield that fall into this pay grade. Blue Shield salaries are based on a variety of factors, including the candidate's experience, location (California, Bay area, or outside California), and current employee salaries for similar roles.

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