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CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield · 2 weeks ago

Lead Systems Engineer - (Hybrid)

Reston, VA

Full-time

Hybrid

Lead/Staff

$113K/yr - $225K/yr

8+ years exp

CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield is a health insurance provider, and they are seeking a Lead Systems Engineer to define, design, and develop system requirements. The role involves overseeing system performance, integration, and support while mentoring team members and ensuring the stability and efficiency of enterprise systems.

Health CareNon ProfitService Industry

No H1B

Responsibilities

Installs, tunes, upgrades, troubleshoots, and maintains all computer systems relevant to the supported applications including all necessary tasks to perform operating system administration, user account management, disaster recovery strategy and networking configuration

Develop and implement techniques to prevent system problems, troubleshoots incidents to recover services, and support the root cause analysis

Evaluates new systems by performing in-depth tests, including end-user reviews

Researches software and related products to support recommendations and purchasing

Determines systems integration issues by evaluating components; developing and completing performance tests; analyzing test data; studying project requirements; analyzing user and potential user input; evaluating similar and related products and systems

Develop system automation and system integration of business processes

Improves engineering job knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; benchmarking state-of-the-art practices; participating in professional societies

Acts as a mentor for junior and senior team members

Leads a team utilizing a matrix management system

Qualification

AWS certificationsLinux System administrationTerraformAnsiblePythonCloud technologiesContainersCI/CD toolsDevOps toolchainSoft skills

Required

Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology or Computer Science OR in lieu of a Bachelor's degree, an additional 4 years of relevant work experience is required in addition to the required work experience

AWS certifications, minimum of One is required

8 years proven success overseeing the design, development, and implementation of software systems and applications

Preferred

Minimum of 10 years of IT experience of which at least 5 years must be in Automation and Administration

Previous Linux System administration is required

Must be well versed in writing Terraform plans, Ansible playbooks, and Python code

Other experience with different automation tools and languages instead of Python to code infrastructure for automation is acceptable

Must be well versed in writing Linux Bash scripts

Must Have Hands on current Implementation and Production level experience AWS Cloud

Hands on experience with Automation and Infrastructure Provisioning is a must Our goal is to only provision infrastructure with code

Current and actual Production level experience with Terraform and Ansible is Required

Experience with integrating other tools like CyberArk, Datadog, F5, WebSeal, Venafi is desired

Must have hands on experience in writing Lambda functions preferably in Python (Boto3)

Must have strong hands-on knowledge of AWS platform and services but not limited to VPC, Subnets, NACLs, Security Groups, EC2, S3, IAM, ELBs, Lambdas, Cloud Watch, CloudTrail, EKS etc

Experience with AWS CLI is desired

Hands-on experience with Containers, Amazon EKS is a big plus

A great understanding of various DevOps toolchains, including Git/repo, Crucible, Jenkins etc

Solid understanding and experience with a CI/CD tool chain

10+ years of overall experience in IT including hands-on Development and Systems engineering background

Experience with Datacenter migration and Enterprise Cloud transformation efforts

Experience with SRE principles and transformation

3+ years of experience with implementation of Containerization (Kubernetes), Cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, or Google, etc.), DevOps tool chain (Ansible, Jenkins, Artifactory, bitbucket, etc.), and technical patterns (IaC, Automated Provisioning/Release, CI/CD, etc.)

Solid understanding of Software coding techniques and experience with full spectrum of Software engineering (Build, Integration, Test, Releasing and Deployment) leveraging Python

Experience in Developing and/or challenging engineering solutions/practices and collaborating with peers within and outside of immediate team, including customers (Dev, Architects, Engineers)