Senior Engineering Leader: Cloud, Platform & DevOps

Blue Shield of CA; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Blue Shield of CA is seeking a Senior Manager of Engineering to lead a team delivering complex services, integrations, and cloud-native applications. You will ensure the organization has the strategy, structure, talent, standards, and execution discipline to deliver secure, scalable, reliable, and maintainable solutions.

The role requires 8 years of technology and 4 years of people management, with experience across multiple teams and domains, and strong knowledge of modern software engineering,

Qualifications

• 8 years of progressive technology experience in software engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, enterprise engineering, engineering management, technical delivery, or related disciplines.
• 4 years of prior people management experience with direct responsibility for supervising, coaching, and evaluating technical teams.
• Experience leading multiple teams, platforms, products, or technology domains with accountability for delivery, people leadership, operational outcomes, and stakeholder management.
• Strong knowledge of modern software engineering, platform engineering, cloud architecture, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, automation, AI enablement, APIs, secure development, and technology lifecycle management.

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.
• Lead efforts to shape engineering practices and drive adoption of CI/CD, observability, secure development, and scalable architecture practices.
• Manage multiple complex workstreams and interact effectively with all management levels.

Skills

People management

Cloud architecture

DevOps

CI/CD

Observability

Secure development

APIs

AI enablement

Stakeholder management

Architecture strategy

Education

Bachelor's degree or High School Diploma/GED

Job description

Blue Shield of CA is seeking a Senior Manager of Engineering to lead a team delivering complex services, integrations, and cloud-native applications. You will ensure the organization has the strategy, structure, talent, standards, and execution discipline to deliver secure, scalable, reliable, and maintainable solutions.

The role requires 8 years of technology and 4 years of people management, with experience across multiple teams and domains, and strong knowledge of modern software engineering,