Blue Shield Of California

DevOps Analyst, Senior

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.
  • Minimum of 5 years of professional experience in relevant technical roles.
  • Deep expertise in Facets-based integration and cloud-based integrations preferred.
  • Strong communication skills to influence stakeholders effectively.
  • Experience collaborating with development and operations teams for smooth product delivery.
  • Knowledge of documenting agile workflows and processes.
  • Basic technical knowledge in adherence to design, security, and sustainable practices.

Responsibilities

  • Define system scope and objectives based on user requirements for complex changes.
  • Analyze business unit functions for optimal information systems use.
  • Drive operational excellence in incident management and process automation.
  • Troubleshoot application-related issues with analytical support.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business and product needs.
  • Recommend cost-effective implementations leveraging reusable features.
  • Document and communicate system dependencies across development areas.
  • Create and maintain user stories, process flows, and test cases.
  • Write acceptance criteria and validate during product demos.
  • Participate actively in agile ceremonies representing development needs.
  • Configure and support technology products through development and testing.
  • Lead system audits and implement necessary updates and patches.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model balancing in-office and remote work.
  • Flexibility for employees living more than 50 miles from an office.
  • Opportunities for professional development and skills extension.
  • Environment focused on teamwork and collaboration.
Full Job Description
Job Description

Your Role

This role resides within the Claims & Payment team under Core Health Plan Platform. The DevOps Analyst, Senior will report to the Senior Manager, IT Development. 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:
  • Formulate and define system scope and objectives based on user needs for the highest complexity changes
  • Analyze all aspects of business unit functions and mappings to determine application, integration, and optimal use of information systems
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 5 years of directly related professional experience and deep technical abilities in one or more primary products, programs, or technologies
  • Expertise in Facets-based integration, along with experience in cloud-based integrations is highly preferred
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills; ability to influence stakeholders and technical counterparts
  • Demonstrated experience in collaborating with development and operations teams to streamline the product delivery lifecycle
  • Experience documenting agile workflows and processes
  • 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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