Resp & Qualifications

PURPOSE:

Seeking experienced and dynamic AWS Cloud Platform Automation Engineer to provide hands-on technical experience to codify our AWS footprint, including Security and Guardrails. As an AWS Cloud Platform Automation Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and integrating our cloud platform resources on Amazon Web Services (AWS). You will collaborate with a team of talented cloud engineers and technology teams to deliver scalable, reliable, and secure cloud solutions that support our company's growth and innovation.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

Communicates Architectural decisions, plans, goals, and strategies, while highlighting short-term trade-offs vs. long-term commitments and costs
Engage in and improve the end-to-end Lifecycle of services, starting from Inception & design, deployment, and operations.
Establish automation capabilities leveraging Cloud native solutions, to improve the Developer experience.
Support activities, including System design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning, and launch reviews.
Willingness to roll up the sleeves and troubleshoot difficult issues and engage the Customer.
Willingness to learn new AWS Services and other technologies as required.
Systems Scalability and sustainability leveraging automation and strive to improve our systems with changes that improve reliability and velocity.
Experience with Enterprise Cloud transformation and migration efforts.
Actively participate and help guide customers on using Cloud-native design and architecture patterns.
Provide Consultation on Technology infrastructure planning and engineering for assigned systems; Assesses the implications of technology strategies on infrastructure capabilities.
Establish strategies to migrate Legacy applications by conversion to multiple Microservices and hosting on AWS Cloud platform.
Leverage Cloud-native architecture components including Containers, immutable infrastructure, Microservices, Service Mesh etc., to build highly available and Fault tolerant applications.
Conduct research on the global technology trends and their applicability to FEPOC products in support of our internal development teams and business initiatives.
Promotes and ensures Modern application design, applies engineering best practices in the development and operations life cycle and mitigates vulnerabilities.
Monitors and manages the Stability, Availability, and Performance of enterprise systems and platforms across IT domains.
Automate end to end process to maintain (patches and upgrades) of our AWS Cloud ecosystem.
Makes data-driven recommendations and decisions, and continuously improves the overall efficacy and efficiency of our software delivery capabilities.
Mentoring peers as well as engaging with others across teams and socializing solutions.
Installs, tunes, upgrades, troubleshoots, and maintains all computer systems relevant to the supported applications including all necessary tasks to perform operating system administration, user account management, disaster recovery strategy and networking configuration.
Develop and implement techniques to prevent system problems, troubleshoots incidents to recover services, and support the root cause analysis
Evaluates new systems by performing in-depth tests, including end-user reviews. Research's software and related products to support recommendations and purchasing. Determines systems integration issues by evaluating components; developing and completing performance tests; analyzing test data; studying project requirements; analyzing user and potential user input; evaluating similar and related products and systems. Develop system automation and system integration of business processes.
Improves engineering job knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; benchmarking state-of-the-art practices; participating in professional societies.
Acts as a mentor for junior and senior team members.

Strong skills are desired in each of the following areas:

Development: Experience programming with one or more languages: Python, Java, Groovy, Go, etc.
IAC Tools for Platform Automation: Strong skills and experience in at least one: Ansible, and Terraform, AWS Cloud formation, CDK.
Containers: Docker or other OCI-certified containers- is a Plus
Container Orchestration Platform: Experience with Kubernetes, AWS EKS, AWS ECS is a plus.
CNI Plugins: Calico, Flannel, Weave Net etc.
Service Mesh: Istio, AWS App Mesh, OpenShift Service Mesh etc.
Container Security Tools: Twistlock, Sysdig, Aqua etc. is a plus,
Platform Monitoring, Observability, & Performance Tools: Nginx, New Relic, AppDynamics, Data Dog, Thanos, Jaeger, LogDNA, etc.
DevOps Tools: Git/Repo, Crucible, Bitbucket, Jira, Ansible, Puppet, Jenkins, Circleci, Bamboo, Maven, Artifactory, Nexus etc.

Other Required Skills:

Understanding of Cloud Native Architecture
Linux, Shell scripting, and general admin skills
Network, Security, Plugins, & Storage Skills
AWS skills: EC2, S3, EBS, EFS, IAM, VPC, Lambda etc.
Cloud and DevOps certifications, e.g., AWS

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITY:
Leads a team utilizing a matrix management system.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Education Level: Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology or Computer Science OR in lieu of a bachelor's degree, an additional 4 years of relevant work experience is required in addition to the required work experience.

Experience: 8 years proven success overseeing the design, development, and implementation of software systems and applications.

Strongly Preferred Qualifications:

Minimum of 10years of IT experience of which at least 5 years must be in AWS Cloud Automation and Administration.
Previous Linux System administration is required.
Must have strong hands-on knowledge ofAWS platform and services but not limited to VPC, Subnets, NACLs, Security Groups, EC2, S3, IAM, ELBs, Lambda, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, EKS etc.
Must Have Hands on current Implementation and Production level experience AWS Cloud.
Hands on experience with Automation and Infrastructure Provisioning is a must Our goal is to only provision infrastructure with Code, and Policy As Code.
Must be well versed in writing Terraform plans, Ansible playbooks, and Python code.
Experience with AWS Cloud Formation and CDK is required.
Current and actual Production level experience with Terraform and Ansible is Required.
Other experience with different automation tools and languages instead of Python to code infrastructure for automation is acceptable.
Must have hands on experience in writing Lambda functions preferably in Python (Boto3).
Must be well versed in writing Linux Bash scripts.
Minimum of One AWS certification is required.
Hands-on experience with Containers, Amazon EKS, or ECS is a big plus.
A great understanding of various DevOps toolchains, including Git/repo, Crucible, Jenkins etc.
Solid understanding and experience with a CI/CD tool chain.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs):

Knowledge of programming languages and web-based technologies.
Proficient in Microsoft Office applications.
Ability to collaborate to solve technical problems across teams.
Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
Knowledge of programming languages and web-based technologies.
Ability to collaborate to solve technical problems across teams.
Expert -Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
Expert - The incumbent is required to immediately disclose any debarment, exclusion, or other event that makes them ineligible to perform work directly or indirectly on Federal health care programs.
Must be able to effectively work in a fast-paced environment with frequently changing priorities, deadlines, and workloads that can be variable for long periods of time.
Must be able to meet established deadlines and handle multiple customer service demands from internal and external customers, within set expectations for service excellence.
Must be able to effectively communicate and provide positive customer service to every internal and external customer, including customers who may be demanding or otherwise challenging.
Must be able to meet established deadlines and handle multiple customer service demands from internal and external customers, within set expectations for service excellence. Must be able to effectively communicate and provide positive customer service to every internal and external customer, including customers who may be demanding or otherwise challenging.

Salary Range: $109,368 - $217,217

Salary Range Disclaimer

The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the work is being performed. This compensation range is specific and considers factors such as (but not limited to) the scope and responsibilities of the position, the candidate's work experience, education/training, internal peer equity, and market and business consideration. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at the top of the range, as compensation decisions depend on each case's facts and circumstances, including but not limited to experience, internal equity, and location. In addition to your compensation, CareFirst offers a comprehensive benefits package, various incentive programs/plans, and 401k contribution programs/plans (all benefits/incentives are subject to eligibility requirements).

Department

Cloud & Platform Engineering

Equal Employment Opportunity

CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield is an Equal Opportunity (EEO) employer. It is the policy of the Company to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.

Where To Apply

Please visit our website to apply: www.carefirst.com/careers

Federal Disc/Physical Demand

Note: The incumbent is required to immediately disclose any debarment, exclusion, or other event that makes him/her ineligible to perform work directly or indirectly on Federal health care programs.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

The associate is primarily seated while performing the duties of the position. Occasional walking or standing is required. The hands are regularly used to write, type, key and handle or feel small controls and objects. The associate must frequently talk and hear. Weights up to 25 pounds are occasionally lifted.

Sponsorship in US

Must be eligible to work in the U.S. without Sponsorship

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