Your Role
The IT Development Center Of Excellence team at Blue Shield is tasked with establishing best practices and standards as we rapidly transform ourselves to be a digital first company. The DevSecOps Engineer, Principal will report to the Sr Manager, IT Development Centers Of Excellence. As a DevSecOps Engineer, you will play a critical role in assessing our current IT infrastructure and driving the digital transformation efforts towards cloud migration, primarily on Microsoft Azure. As part of a Center of Excellence, your primary responsibility will be to establish best practices and standards for DevSecOps methodologies, ensuring a secure and seamless transition to the cloud environment.
Your Work
In this role, you will:
- Lead the Design and implementation of secure, scalable, and automated cloud-based solutions on Microsoft Azure to support application deployment and management
- Lead the implementation of DevSecOps practices, including continuous integration, continuous delivery (CI/CD), and automated security testing, tailored for the Azure cloud environment
- Instruct, direct, mentor, and monitor the technical work of other DevSecOps engineers and other senior staff
- Assist multiple teams and projects in their cloud transformation journey, balancing being hands-on with infrastructure automation, while leading others to become self-sufficient in their operations
- Manage the configuration and infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or similar, with a strong emphasis on security
- Conduct security assessments, vulnerability testing, and ensure compliance with industry standards and regulatory requirements
- Work closely with stakeholders to define and enforce security policies and access controls in the Azure environment
- Lead the development and maintenance of documentation for security processes, procedures, and configuration management
Your Knowledge and Experience
- Requires a bachelor's degree, preferably in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field, or equivalent experience
- Requires at least 10 years of prior relevant experience
- Requires 5+ years of application development experience and 5+ years of DevOps and DevSecOps experience
- Proven hands-on experience in cloud solutioning and design for secure and compliant integration of applications on Microsoft Azure
- Solid understanding of DevSecOps principles, CI/CD pipelines, and automation tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, BitBucket, or Azure DevOps, with a focus on security integration and automated testing at all stages
- Strong knowledge of scripting languages (e.g., PowerShell, Bash, Python) for automation tasks, with an emphasis on security-related automation
- Experience in implementing and managing containerized applications using Docker and orchestration platforms like Kubernetes, with security considerations in mind
- Familiarity with infrastructure as code (IaC) concepts and tools such as Terraform or Ansible, with a focus on security best practices
- Proficiency in cloud security best practices and implementing them in an Azure environment
- Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to troubleshoot security-related issues
- Preferred experience in leading digital transformation projects and cloud migration efforts with a strong focus on security
- Understanding of and experience with AIOps concepts and tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK stack, and platforms like OpsRamp or DynaTrace, would be strongly preferred
- Experience with performance and cost optimization as applied to cloud infrastructure and cloud application architectures
- Experience with a wide range of Azure products and services, in domains such as Analytics, Data Warehousing, Databases, DevOps and Cloud Management toolset, Security, and Storage, etc
- Preferred DevOps certifications, such as Microsoft Certified DevOps Engineer Expert
- Preferred certifications in cloud security, such as Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP) or equivalent
- Preferred candidates would have transitioned from senior application developer or architect roles to DevOps or DevSecOps engineers and experts, as opposed to System or Lab Administrators who transitioned to DevOps/DevSecOps
Pay Range:
The pay range for this role is: $ 145970.00 to $ 218900.00 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.