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Job Description
Your Role
The Developer & Employee Experience Team serves at the direction of the Sr. Director of Technical Engineering, enabling BSC's journey to the cloud.
This Platform Engineer, Principal role will report to the Sr. Manager of the Kubernetes Enginering team. In this role you will design, build, and maintain Kubernetes and containerization related technologies in service of our Internal Developer Platform. As the technical lead of the team, you will also guide others in doing the same.
Responsibilities
Your Work
In this role, you will:
Qualifications
Your Knowledge and Experience
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About the Team
About Stellarus and the Ascendiun Family of Companies
Stellarus, launched in January 2025, is designed to scale innovative healthcare solutions that support customers in creating a health care experience deserving of their family, friends, and neighbors.
Stellarus is part of a family of organizations that is overseen by a nonprofit corporate entity named Ascendiun. The Ascendiun Family of Companies also includes Blue Shield of California and its subsidiary, Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plan and Altais, a clinical services company.
Stellarus' vision is to empower its customers to create a healthcare experience that is worthy of their family, friends, and neighbors. Stellarus' objective is to offer innovative, modern, scalable solutions that challenge the health care status quo. This very closely aligns with Blue Shield of California's vision by using innovation to improve quality, affordability, and experience for members.
To achieve our mission, we foster an environment where all employees can thrive and contribute fully to address the needs of the various communities we serve. We are committed to creating and maintaining a supportive workplace that upholds our values and advances our goals.
Our Values:
At Stellarus, our core values of agility, trust, drive, courage and service shape our approach to developing innovative product offerings.
Our Workplace Model:
At Stellarus and the Ascendiun Family of Companies, we believe in fostering a workplace environment that balances purposeful in-person collaboration with flexibility. As we continue to evolve our workplace model, our focus remains on creating spaces where our people can connect with purpose - whether working in the office or through a hybrid approach - by providing clear expectations while respecting the diverse needs of our workforce.
Two Ways of Working:
o Member-facing and approved out-of-state roles remain remote.
o Employees living more than 50 miles from their assigned offices are expected to work with their managers on a plan for periodic office visits.
o For employees with medical conditions that may impact their ability to work in-office, we are committed to engaging in an interactive process and providing reasonable accommodations to ensure their work environment is conducive to their success and well-being.
Physical Requirements:
Office Environment - roles involving part to full time schedule in Office Environment. Based in our physical offices and work from home office/deskwork - Activity level: Sedentary, frequency most of work day.
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Equal Employment Opportunity:
External hires must pass a background check/drug screen. Qualified applicants with arrest records and/or conviction records will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with Federal, State and local laws, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status or disability status and any other classification protected by Federal, State and local laws.
Your Role
The Developer & Employee Experience Team serves at the direction of the Sr. Director of Technical Engineering, enabling BSC's journey to the cloud.
This Platform Engineer, Principal role will report to the Sr. Manager of the Kubernetes Enginering team. In this role you will design, build, and maintain Kubernetes and containerization related technologies in service of our Internal Developer Platform. As the technical lead of the team, you will also guide others in doing the same.
Responsibilities
Your Work
In this role, you will:
- 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
Qualifications
Your Knowledge and Experience
- 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
- Proficiency in at least one relevant programming language (Python, Go) highly desired
- In depth knowledge of cloud hosting providers, especially Microsoft Azure
- Current CKA Certification or equivalent knowledge
- Additional Kubernetes certifications strongly preferred
- Experience working in an agile development environment is strongly desired
- Experience working remotely is strongly desired
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About the Team
About Stellarus and the Ascendiun Family of Companies
Stellarus, launched in January 2025, is designed to scale innovative healthcare solutions that support customers in creating a health care experience deserving of their family, friends, and neighbors.
Stellarus is part of a family of organizations that is overseen by a nonprofit corporate entity named Ascendiun. The Ascendiun Family of Companies also includes Blue Shield of California and its subsidiary, Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plan and Altais, a clinical services company.
Stellarus' vision is to empower its customers to create a healthcare experience that is worthy of their family, friends, and neighbors. Stellarus' objective is to offer innovative, modern, scalable solutions that challenge the health care status quo. This very closely aligns with Blue Shield of California's vision by using innovation to improve quality, affordability, and experience for members.
To achieve our mission, we foster an environment where all employees can thrive and contribute fully to address the needs of the various communities we serve. We are committed to creating and maintaining a supportive workplace that upholds our values and advances our goals.
Our Values:
At Stellarus, our core values of agility, trust, drive, courage and service shape our approach to developing innovative product offerings.
Our Workplace Model:
At Stellarus and the Ascendiun Family of Companies, we believe in fostering a workplace environment that balances purposeful in-person collaboration with flexibility. As we continue to evolve our workplace model, our focus remains on creating spaces where our people can connect with purpose - whether working in the office or through a hybrid approach - by providing clear expectations while respecting the diverse needs of our workforce.
Two Ways of Working:
- Hybrid (Default): Work from a business unit-approved office at least two (2) times per month (for roles below Director-level) or once per week (for Director-level roles and above).Exceptions:
o Member-facing and approved out-of-state roles remain remote.
o Employees living more than 50 miles from their assigned offices are expected to work with their managers on a plan for periodic office visits.
o For employees with medical conditions that may impact their ability to work in-office, we are committed to engaging in an interactive process and providing reasonable accommodations to ensure their work environment is conducive to their success and well-being.
- On-Site: Work from a business unit-approved office an average of four (4) or more days a week.
Physical Requirements:
Office Environment - roles involving part to full time schedule in Office Environment. Based in our physical offices and work from home office/deskwork - Activity level: Sedentary, frequency most of work day.
Please click here for further physical requirement detail.
Equal Employment Opportunity:
External hires must pass a background check/drug screen. Qualified applicants with arrest records and/or conviction records will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with Federal, State and local laws, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status or disability status and any other classification protected by Federal, State and local laws.
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