Cloud Engineer, Consultant

Your Role

The Advanced Analytics team for delivering Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics, GenAI applications and advanced statistical models to our business users. The Cloud Engineer will report to the Director of Advanced Analytics. In this role you will design, build and maintain continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines with embedded testing to effectively secure and deploy cloud-based workloads. Design infrastructure and implement automation using infrastructure-as-code solutions and build automation for routine, simple, and complex tasks.

Your Work

In this role, you will:

• Design, deploy and support scalable, secure, highly available, and reliable workloads across a multi-cloud presence (Azure, GCP, and AWS); analyze related technology requirements; oversee continuous improvement efforts

• Provide leadership for the migration of on-premises workloads to the cloud leveraging a cloud migration factory model approach; lead design efforts

• Apply GitOps/IaC concepts and related tooling to execute operations (Version Control Systems, Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment, self-service automation platforms); actively advance team capabilities through mentoring

• Collaborate across a multi-functional team (DevOps model) in support of a product-centric organization

• Actively contribute to the development of cloud governance decision making and processes

• Participate in Agile methodology meetings and scrums.

• Manage Azure Cognitive Services, Databricks, SAS and other cloud-based platforms

Your Knowledge and Experience

• Requires 7+ years hands-on administration and design experience of a wide array of cloud services across Azure, GCP, and AWS

• Experience working in DevOps environments; knowledge of GitOps concepts

• Requires 5+ years of hands-on programming/scripting (e.g., Python, Go, Ruby) and software configuration management experience (e.g., Ansible)

• Requires 5+ years of Linux and/or Windows Administration experience

• Requires 3+ years of hands-on experience administering container orchestration solutions

• Requires 5+ years of hands-on experience administering monitoring and logging tooling (e.g., Azure Monitor, Splunk)

• Requires experience/understanding of cloud architecture solutions and design for data, machine learning, artificial intelligence.

• Should have thorough understanding of Data-lakes raw/enriched/curated layer concepts and ETL within Azure framework.

• Requires Experience in implementing large data and analytics platforms.

• Requires Experience architecting and building data platforms on Azure.

• Requires Experience architecting and building data platforms on Data bricks from scratch.

• Requires Extensive hands-on experience with (minimum of 6-8+ years) Azure Databricks, Unity Catalog, Delta Lake and Azure Cloud Architecture
  

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ABOUT THE TEAM
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:

At Stellarus and the Ascendiun Family of Companies, we believe in fostering a workplace environment that balances purposeful in-person collaboration with flexibility. As we continue to evolve our workplace model, our focus remains on creating spaces where our people can connect with purpose – whether working in the office or through a hybrid approach – by providing clear expectations while respecting the diverse needs of our workforce.

Two Ways of Working:

• Hybrid (Default): Work from a business unit-approved office at least two (2) times per month (for roles below Director-level) or once per week (for Director-level roles and above). Exceptions:

o Member-facing and approved out-of-state roles remain remote.

o Employees living more than 50 miles from their assigned offices are expected to work with their managers on a plan for periodic office visits.

o 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.

• On-Site: Work from a business unit-approved office an average of four (4) or more days a week.

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.