DevOps Engineer, Senior

Stellarus; California; On-site; USD 103,000 - 154,000; Full time

Job summary

Stellarus seeks a Senior DevOps Engineer to design and manage scalable, secure cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines for Stellarus Digital Applications. You will report to the Senior Manager, Digital Platform and help build reliable platforms with strong security and observability practices.

You will drive automation, platform engineering accelerators, and self-service capabilities across multiple teams, ensuring resilient operations and continuous improvement in a fast-growing

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or High School Diploma/GED and 4 years of additional relevant experience in lieu of a degree.
• 5 years of prior relevant experience.
• Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure, CI/CD architecture, automation, and release engineering practices.
• Experience implementing infrastructure-as-code, configuration management, and automated environment provisioning for complex applications.
• Experience resolving complex deployment, production, performance, or reliability issues through root cause analysis and corrective action.
• Knowledge of observability, monitoring, alerting, disaster recovery readiness, and service reliability practices.
• Experience embedding security, access, vulnerability, and compliance controls into infrastructure and deployment pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Design reusable Azure platform components, cloud automation frameworks, self-service capabilities and CI/CD solutions that improve scalability, reliability, and deployment efficiency.
• Develop reusable Terraform, Bicep, GitOps, and platform engineering accelerators consumed across multiple teams, configuration management, and environment automation for complex applications.
• Resolve complex production, deployment, and performance issues; drive root cause analysis and preventive improvements.
• Design enterprise observability frameworks, SLO tracking, and operational excellence tooling, alerting, disaster recovery readiness, and operational practices to improve system resiliency and reduce downtime.
• Implement Security-as-Code, Compliance-as-Code, and Policy-as-Code frameworks into infrastructure and pipeline design to support secure, governed delivery.
• Lead platform adoption and developer experience improvements for less experienced engineers and promote DevOps best practices across engineering, QA, SRE, and platform teams.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

CI/CD architecture

Automation

Release engineering

Infrastructure as code

Observability

Security controls

Education

Bachelor’s degree or HS diploma with 4 years experience

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

GitOps

Kubernetes

Azure

Job description

Your Role

The Digital Platform team creates and maintains the foundation and features upon which Stellarus Digital Applications’ technical products are built . The DevOps Engineer, Senior will report to the Senior Manager, Digital Platform as your direct manager. In this role you will design, implement, and manage scalable, secure, and reliable cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines.

Job Description

Your Role

The Digital Platform team creates and maintains the foundation and features upon which Stellarus Digital Applications’ technical products are built . The DevOps Engineer, Senior will report to the Senior Manager, Digital Platform as your direct manager. In this role you will design, implement, and manage scalable, secure, and reliable cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines.

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 reusable Azure platform components, cloud automation frameworks, self-service capabilities and CI/CD solutions that improve scalability, reliability, and deployment efficiency.
• Develop reusable Terraform, Bicep, GitOps, and platform engineering accelerators consumed across multiple teams , configuration management, and environment automation for complex applications or platforms.
• Resolve complex production, deployment, and performance issues; drive root cause analysis and preventive improvements.
• Design enterprise observability frameworks, SLO tracking, and operational excellence tooling, alerting, disaster recovery readiness, and operational practices to improve system resiliency and reduce downtime.
• Implement Security-as-Code, Compliance-as-Code, and Policy-as-Code frameworks into infrastructure and pipeline design to support secure, governed delivery.
• Lead platform adoption and developer experience improvements for less experienced engineers and promote DevOps best practices across engineering, QA, SRE, and platform teams.

Qualifications

Your Knowledge and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree or High School Diploma/GED and 4 years of additional relevant experience in lieu of a degree
• 5 years of prior relevant experience
• Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure, CI/CD architecture, automation, and release engineering practices.
• Experience implementing infrastructure - as - code, configuration management, and automated environment provisioning for complex applications.
• Experience resolving complex deployment, production, performance, or reliability issues through root cause analysis and corrective action.
• Knowledge of observability, monitoring, alerting, disaster recovery readiness, and service reliability practices.
• Experience embedding security, access, vulnerability, and compliance controls into infrastructure and deployment pipelines.

Preferred Knowledge & Experience

• Advanced experience with Azure or other major cloud platforms in regulated or enterprise environments.
• Experience with Kubernetes, container platforms, microservices, API gateways, or distributed systems.
• Experience mentoring engineers or promoting DevOps standards, patterns, and best practices across teams.
• Relevant certification such as Azure DevOps Engineer, AWS DevOps Engineer, Kubernetes CKA, or comparable certification.

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.

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 : 20262402 Job Category : Information Technology Posting Date : 2026-11-04T16:54:17+00:00 Job Schedule : Full time Locations : Oakland, CA, United States United States WA, United States RI, United States OH, United States MO, United States CA, United States Long Beach, CA, United States AZ, United States CO, United States FL, United States GA, United States MD, United States MN, United States NV, United States OR, United States El Dorado Hills, CA, United States Lodi, CA, United States Rancho Cordova, CA, United States San Diego, CA, United States Woodland Hills, CA, United States AL, United States IL, United States VA, United States WI, United States TX, United States NY, United States Pay Range for California : $102740.00 to $154220.00 Pay Range for Bay Area : $115816.00 to $173848.00 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