Platform Engineer, Consultant

Job Title

Platform Engineer

Job Description

The Platform Operations team, that focuses on the design, build, and operation of our foundational tech stack. The Platform Engineer will report to the Director, Platform Engineering. In this role you will design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure and technologies in service of Stellarus product commercialization using GitOps principles.

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.

Responsibilities

Your Work

In this role, you will:

• Design and implement scalable, robust Azure cloud infrastructure and services to support application deployment and management, ensuring optimal performance, security, and reliability.
• Implement monitoring and logging solutions to track performance, identify issues, and optimize Azure cloud environments for efficiency and scalability.
• Accomplish all the above with an Infrastructure-as-Code, GitOps methodology, primarily with Terraform.
• Create automation and tools using languages such as Python or Go to streamline management, deployment, and scaling of Azure cloud infrastructure and services.
• Security and Compliance: Ensure that Azure cloud infrastructure and services adhere to security policies and compliance standards, implementing security best practices and conducting regular audits.
• Work closely with development and security teams to align Azure cloud solutions with business needs and integrate them with existing workflows.
• Provide support and troubleshooting for Azure cloud infrastructure and services-related issues, working to resolve incidents quickly and efficiently.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation of Azure cloud infrastructure and services, including 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 an additional 4 years of professional experience.

• Requires 7 years of professional experience serving as a technical expert and thought leader in enterprise Platform development and operation.
• Strong hands-on experience managing cloud services in a heavily regulated, DevOps environment
• Proficiency in at least one relevant programming language (Python, Go, etc.) highly desired
• In depth knowledge of cloud hosting providers, including Microsoft Azure highly desired
• Experience working in an agile development environment is strongly desired
• Experience working remotely is strongly desired

About Us

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:

We believe in fostering a workplace environment that balances purposeful in-person collaboration with flexibility - providing clear expectations while respecting the diverse needs of our workforce. Our workplace model is designed around intentional in-person interaction, collaboration, connection, creativity and flexibility:

• For most teams, this means coming into the office two days per week.

• Employees living more than 50 miles from an office location, out of state employees, and employees in certain member-facing roles should work with their manager to determine in-office time based on business need.

• 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.

The Company reserves the right to require more presence in the office based on business needs, and requirements are subject to change with periodic reviews.

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.

Job Info

• Job Identification 20260935
• Job Category Information Technology
• Locations El Dorado Hills, CA, United States CA, United States Long Beach, CA, United States Lodi, CA, United States Los Angeles, CA, United States Oakland, CA, United States Rancho Cordova, CA, United States Sacramento, CA, United States San Diego, CA, United States
• Pay Range for California $123090.00 to $184800.00
• Pay Range for Bay Area $138756.00 to $208320.00
• 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 experience, location (California, Bay Area, or outside California), and current employee salaries for similar roles.
• Role can be filled by a candidate requiring sponsorship No