Head of Cloud & Platform Engineering

Blue Shield of CA; Minneapolis (MN); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Blue Shield of CA seeks a senior engineering leader to guide a team delivering complex services, integrations, and cloud-native applications. The role ensures strategy, structure, talent, standards, and execution discipline to produce secure, scalable, reliable, and maintainable solutions.

You will drive multiple teams, advance CI/CD, observability, secure development, and operate across a modern technology stack in a regulated healthcare setting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or GED; 4 years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree.
• 8 years of progressive technology experience in software/ platform/ infrastructure engineering or related disciplines.
• 4 years of people management experience with direct supervision.
• Experience leading multiple teams with accountability for delivery and stakeholder management.
• Strong knowledge of modern software engineering, cloud, DevOps, SRE, automation, APIs, and secure development.
• Ability to drive CI/CD, observability, secure development, operational reliability, and scalable architecture practices.
• Experience modernizing enterprise platforms and reducing technical debt while maintaining secure, supported technologies.
• Experience managing budgets, vendor management, contracts, investment planning, resource planning, and technology roadmaps preferred.

Responsibilities

• Oversee a team responsible for designing and delivering complex services, integrations, cloud-native applications, and enterprise technology capabilities.
• Ensure strategy, structure, talent, standards, and execution discipline needed to deliver secure, scalable, reliable, and maintainable solutions.
• Shape engineering practices and drive adoption of CI/CD, observability, and secure development across teams.
• Collaborate with senior leaders to align technology roadmaps with business goals in a regulated environment.

Skills

Leadership & people management

CI/CD

Cloud architecture

DevOps

Platform engineering

Stakeholder management

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or High School Diploma/GED

Job description

Blue Shield of CA seeks a senior engineering leader to guide a team delivering complex services, integrations, and cloud-native applications. The role ensures strategy, structure, talent, standards, and execution discipline to produce secure, scalable, reliable, and maintainable solutions.

You will drive multiple teams, advance CI/CD, observability, secure development, and operate across a modern technology stack in a regulated healthcare setting.