DevSecOps Engineer, Principal
Job Description
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 ized 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.
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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