DevOps Analyst, Senior

Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association

Long Beach, CA

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Agile Modeling, Agile Programming Methodologies, Analysis Skills, Architectural Design, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Automation, Communication Skills, DevOps, Documentation, Environmental Design, Establish Priorities, Green Business, Healthcare, Identify Issues, Incident Management, Information Technology/Systems Audit, Leadership, Maintain Compliance, Operational Support, Pharmacy, Presentation/Verbal Skills, Problem Solving Skills, Process Flow, Product Demonstration, Product Lifecycle, Product Management, Product Programs, Regulatory Compliance, Scripting (Scripting Languages), ScrumMaster, Software Administration, Software Patches, Sprint Planning, Sprint Retrospective, Standup Meetings, Team Lead/Manager, Technical Support, Test Case, Testing, Writing Skills
LOCATION
Long Beach, CA
POSTED
25 days ago

Your Role

The Pharmacy Care Management Platform team delivers all IT Pharmacy solutions to support Pharmacy Operations and Pharmacy Transformation. The DevOps Analyst, Senior will report to the Pharmacy Development Senior Manager. In this role you will be the comprehensive subject matter expert in the technology products/platform feature space and apply, learn, and extend your skills beyond formal role boundaries. Having a desire to help achieve transformational healthcare improvement should serve as the inspiration behind the ideal candidate's willingness to participate across many different activities within an agile working model.

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.

Your Knowledge and Experience

  • Requires a bachelor''s degree or equivalent technical experience
  • Requires at least 5 years of directly related professional experience and deep technical abilities in one or more primary products, programs, or technologies
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills; ability to influence stakeholders and technical counterparts
  • Excellent problem-solving and prioritization skills
  • Demonstrated experience in collaborating with development and operations teams to streamline the product delivery lifecycle
  • Experience documenting agile workflows and processes
  • Experience utilizing the Atlassian suite of products
  • Requires basic technical knowledge and experience including adherence to architectural design, development standards, security policies, and sustainable design practices

Hybrid

This role requires employees to be in-office based on our hybrid workplace model, balancing purposeful in-person collaboration with flexibility. For most teams, this means coming into the office two days each week.

Employees living more than 50 miles from an office location will work with their manager to determine in-office time based on business need.

Your Work

In this role, you will:

  • Drive operational excellence, including but not limited to Incident Management, process automation leveraging AI, and ensuring smooth deployments for your technology products/platform features
  • Provide analytical support and troubleshooting for application-related issues
  • Work directly with the product stakeholders and/or technology product teams to understand the business domain.
  • Recommend the most efficient and cost-effective implementation, leveraging reusable features where possible
  • Understand, document, and communicate upstream/downstream dependencies supporting assigned development areas
  • Assist in creating, refining, and maintaining user stories and associated deliverables such as process flows and test cases to meet development and stakeholder needs
  • Write acceptance criteria and ensure criteria comes to fruition during product demos
  • Actively participate in agile ceremonies (i.e., daily standup, sprint planning, retrospective, and demos), representing the needs and perspectives of your assigned development areas
  • Act as a proxy Product Manager/Scrum Master when necessary
  • Configure, develop (scripts, queries, reports), test, troubleshoot (system and application log interrogation), evaluate performance, and support (monitoring and impact remediation)
  • Collaborate with development teams to integrate new features and improvements
  • Ensure security and compliance standards are met throughout the development and deployment process
  • Lead the team in regular system audits and implement necessary updates and patches

Your Work

In this role, you will:

  • Drive operational excellence, including but not limited to Incident Management, process automation leveraging AI, and ensuring smooth deployments for your technology products/platform features
  • Provide analytical support and troubleshooting for application-related issues
  • Work directly with the product stakeholders and/or technology product teams to understand the business domain.
  • Recommend the most efficient and cost-effective implementation, leveraging reusable features where possible
  • Understand, document, and communicate upstream/downstream dependencies supporting assigned development areas
  • Assist in creating, refining, and maintaining user stories and associated deliverables such as process flows and test cases to meet development and stakeholder needs
  • Write acceptance criteria and ensure criteria comes to fruition during product demos
  • Actively participate in agile ceremonies (i.e., daily standup, sprint planning, retrospective, and demos), representing the needs and perspectives of your assigned development areas
  • Act as a proxy Product Manager/Scrum Master when necessary
  • Configure, develop (scripts, queries, reports), test, troubleshoot (system and application log interrogation), evaluate performance, and support (monitoring and impact remediation)
  • Collaborate with development teams to integrate new features and improvements
  • Ensure security and compliance standards are met throughout the development and deployment process
  • Lead the team in regular system audits and implement necessary updates and patches

About the Company

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Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association

At the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association (BCBSA), we provide business strategy, technical support and consulting expertise to 36 Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies across the nation, employing more than 1,000 of the best strategic thinkers in the industry. We are a Brand manager that sets quality control standards for the 36 independent companies that use the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Brands, and we serve as a trade association that represents these Blue companies. It is through our involvement that the Blues companies share a united vision and strategy while also benefiting from the local strength of all member companies.
COMPANY SIZE
2,000 to 2,499 employees
INDUSTRY
Insurance
WEBSITE
https://www.bcbs.com/about-us/careers