Blue Shield Of California

DevOps Analyst, Consultant

Blue Shield Of California$100K — $130K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent technical experience
  • 7+ years of direct professional experience with deep technical skills in primary technologies
  • Strong oral and written communication abilities
  • Proven problem-solving and prioritization skills
  • Experience in collaboration with development and operations teams
  • Familiarity with documenting agile workflows using the Atlassian suite
  • Basic technical knowledge of architectural design and security standards

Responsibilities

  • Support roadmap creation and maintenance for Behavioral Health IT Solutions
  • Drive operational excellence and process automation using AI
  • Provide analytical and troubleshooting support for applications
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business domain
  • Recommend efficient, cost-effective implementations of platform features
  • Document and communicate dependencies for development tasks
  • Assist in creating user stories and related deliverables
  • Participate in agile ceremonies and represent assigned development areas
  • Serve as DevOps Analyst for multiple product teams
  • Configure and support technology products, including scripting and troubleshooting
  • Ensure security and compliance throughout development and deployment
  • Lead system audits and implement necessary updates

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model with in-office collaboration days
  • Flexibility for employees living over 50 miles from the office
  • Regular opportunities for team collaboration
  • Focus on transformational healthcare improvement
  • Participation in an agile working environment
Full Job Description
Job Description

Your Role

The Application Services team plays a critical role in enhancing customer and technical collaboration while delivering all application development through a Platform and Technology Product Operation Model. The DevOps Analyst, Consultant will report to the Sr Manager, IT Applications. In this role you will be the comprehensive subject matter expert in the technology products/platform feature space and apply, learn, and extend your skills beyond formal role boundaries. Having a desire to help achieve transformational healthcare improvement should serve as the inspiration behind the ideal candidate's willingness to participate across many different activities within an agile working model.

Responsibilities

Your Work

In this role, you will:
  • Support the creation and maintenance of delivery roadmap for platform feature set(s) or technical product for Behavioral Health IT Solutions starting with Behavioral Health Insourcing initiative, in partnership with engineering and architecture
  • Drive operational excellence, including but not limited to Incident Management, process automation leveraging AI, and ensuring smooth deployments for your technology products/platform features
  • Provide analytical support and troubleshooting for application-related issues
  • Work directly with the product stakeholders and/or technology product teams to understand the business domain
  • Recommend the most efficient and cost-effective implementation, leveraging reusable features where possible
  • Understand, document, and communicate upstream/downstream dependencies supporting assigned development areas
  • Assist in creating, refining, and maintaining user stories and associated deliverables such as process flows and test cases to meet development and stakeholder needs
  • Write acceptance criteria and ensure criteria comes to fruition during product demos
  • Actively participate in agile ceremonies (i.e., daily standup, sprint planning, retrospective, and demos), representing the needs and perspectives of your assigned development areas
  • Have the ability to serve as DevOps Analyst for more than one technology product line/platform feature team
  • Configure, develop (scripts, queries, reports), test, troubleshoot (system and application log interrogation), evaluate performance, and support (monitoring and impact remediation)
  • Collaborate with development teams to integrate new features and improvements
  • Ensure security and compliance standards are met throughout the development and deployment process
  • Lead the team in regular system audits and implement necessary updates and patches


Qualifications

Your Knowledge and Experience
  • Requires a bachelor's degree or equivalent technical experience
  • Requires at least 7 years of directly related professional experience and deep technical abilities in one or more primary products, programs, or technologies
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills; ability to influence stakeholders and technical counterparts
  • Excellent problem-solving and prioritization skills
  • Demonstrated experience in collaborating with development and operations teams to streamline the product delivery lifecycle
  • Experience documenting agile workflows and processes
  • Experience utilizing the Atlassian suite of products
  • Requires basic technical knowledge and experience including adherence to architectural design, development standards, security policies, and sustainable design practices


Hybrid

This role requires employees to be in-office based on our hybrid workplace model, balancing purposeful in-person collaboration with flexibility. For most teams, this means coming into the office two days each week.

Employees living more than 50 miles from an office location will work with their manager to determine in-office time based on business need.

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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About Blue Shield Of California

Blue Shield of California is a not-for-profit health plan provider that has been providing Californians with access to high-quality healthcare for over 80 years. The company offers a range of health insurance products and services to individuals, families, and employers. Blue Shield of California is committed to improving the health and wellbeing of its members and the communities it serves. The company is also committed to sustainability and has implemented a number of initiatives to reduce its environmental impact.
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Size
7,000 employees
Industry
Founded
1981

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