Cloud Engineer, Sr. Principal
Company: Blue Shield of California
Location: Oakland
Posted on: October 18, 2024
Job Description:
Your Role The Developer and Employee Experience team is
responsible for creation of the standard and automation pipelines
that enable our partnering IT teams to build, release, and manage
their systems. We are setting the path for how we'll migrate to the
Cloud and ensure that we are guiding the movement to a more modern
DevOps operating model. The Sr. Principal Enterprise Cloud Engineer
will report to the Vice President of Developer & Employee
Experience. In this role you will drive the creation and
maintenance of enterprise technology capabilities and technology
patterns to enable our teams to move to the Cloud. You will also
define integrated roadmaps that guide our strategic investments to
support our enterprise initiatives for Blue Shield of California.
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:
- Help create the sense of psychological safety, enabling teams
to try and learn new areas of technology.
- Solve technical problems of the highest scope and complexity
for the entire organization
- Collaborates with and leads other architects and engineers to
create and document standards and patterns that can be leveraged
for future re-use, and actively seek opportunities to leverage
industry solutions for new business offerings and services
- Drives innovation across engineering with a willingness to
experiment and bodly confront problems of immense complexity and
scope
- Exert significant influence over BlueShield of California
long-term goals and execution
- Ensure that our standards for style, maintainability, and best
practices are suitable for the unique problems of scale and
diversity of use represented by BlueShield of California
- Drive significant improvements for BlueShield of California
use, ease of development, and technical efficiency through
effective collaboration and prolific technical contributions.
- Provide mentorship for engineers, with a particular focus on
Staff+ engineers, to help them grow in their responsibilities.
- Share expertise across the entire organization
- Ship extremely high-impact features and improvements with
minimal guidance and support from other members of the
organization
- Serves as a trusted advisor to leaders and business
stakeholders in the development of the strategic portfolio or
business unit plans
- Provides comprehensive analytical thinking to ensure
transformation costs, impact and value are properly understood
estimated and controlled across people, process and technology
- Collaborates with customers, vendors, industry consultants and
senior company leadership to continuously learn and identify
opportunities to advance on our business strategy
- Defines the technology roadmap and architecture to accelerate
cloud initiatives
- Understanding of business process design methods and tools a
plus
- Strong situational analysis and decision making abilities
- Ability to tailor communications to the C-suite level Your
Knowledge and Experience
- Master's degree preferred. Minimum Bachelor's degree or
equivalent experience
- 12+ years relevant business and hands on IT experience using
various technologies like Linux and/or Windows, firewalls, IPAM
solutions, monitoring/logging tools using Azure monitor or
Splunk.
- 3+ years of experience of working in the healthcare industry is
desired
- 5+ years of architecture practice experience with one or more
cloud technologies such as Azure, Google Cloud, Amazong Web
Services.
- Expert engineer who champions and continuously drives the
advancement of the architecture operating model, governance,
processes, policies, standards, and framework for the Developer and
Empolyee Experience capability
- Creates, refines and puts into practice repeatable architecture
frameworks and processes to enable complex cross-functional
initiatives related to major business initiatives
- Provides vision and strategic direction and application for one
or more architecture domains (business, information, application
and technology)
- Develop and maintain strategies and solutions for the
enterprise in collaboration with executive leadership across the
business and IT
- Possesses the excellent interpersonal skills necessary to
articulate the value of a strong enterprise architecture function
to critical business stakeholders
- Advanced knowledge and experience with cloud technologies,
defining technology
- standards and implementation roadmaps for one or more of the
following: Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services.
- Demonstrated proficiency in understanding enterprise
architecture life cycle methodologies Pay Range: The pay range for
this role is: $ 172260.00 to $ 258280.00 for California. Notes:
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.
Keywords: Blue Shield of California, San Francisco , Cloud Engineer, Sr. Principal, Engineering , Oakland, California
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