Join an Award-Winning Company, Thrive in a Culture of Innovation, and Enjoy Outstanding Benefits!
Ready to take your DevOps career to new heights while working from in the U.S.? BCS Financial, a nationwide leader in supplemental insurance solutions and member of the Blue Cross Blue Shield family, is seeking a talented Azure DevOps Engineer to join our innovative, fully remote team! At BCS Financial, you’ll be part of a company with 75+ years of impact, serving over 17 million lives and owned by all 34 primary Blue Cross Blue Shield licensees. Our mission: “We make our customers better and strengthen our communities by improving affordability and access to care.” As a driving force in the industry, we’re not just about insurance; we’re about real change and brighter futures!
- Fully Remote Role – Work from anywhere in the U.S. with a flexible, collaborative team
- Award-Winning Culture – Named 2024 Most Innovative Company of the Year (Golden Bridge Awards), BIG Innovation Award winner, and recognized for both service excellence and workplace wellness
- Best-in-Class Benefits – Generous PTO (starting at 22 days), 12 paid holidays, comprehensive health/dental/vision, HSA/FSA, 401(k) with up to 6% match, parental leave, home office and wellness reimbursement, and more
- Professional Growth – Tuition reimbursement, continuing education, and a robust mentorship program to help you grow every step of the way
- Supportive Community – We’re big enough to make a difference, but small enough where every team member is valued and empowered to drive real impact
As our Azure DevOps Engineer, you'll bridge development and operations, automate CI/CD in Azure, drive cloud cost optimization, and contribute to a culture that values collaboration, learning, and innovation.
Come thrive where your expertise is celebrated, your ideas matter, and your career can blossom. Discover why BCS Financial is the place to build, innovate, and make a difference together.
Position Overview
The Azure DevOps Engineer plays a critical role in bridging development and operations teams to streamline software delivery and infrastructure management. They focus on automation, collaboration, and continuous improvement to enhance deployment speed, reliability, and scalability. They build and maintain continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines in Azure DevOps to automate software releases, and also build cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Bicep, Terraform and ARM. They also implement logging, monitoring, and alerting solutions to ensure system health and performance. The role will contribute to standards and continuous improvement across the environment, and in addition to DevOps is also positioned to leverage and expand expertise in FinOps, cloud engineering and platform engineering. At BCS Financials our goal is to foster a collaborative and innovative environment where DevOps engineers can thrive and make a significant impact.
This role will report to the Interim Head of I&T and CISO.
Status: This is a full-time position, not contract.
Essential Elements
- Document and deliver DevOps and cloud engineering processes in accordance with security, compliance, and architectural best practices.
- Cost Optimization & TCO Analysis: Oversee programs that optimize total cost of ownership for applications and infrastructure, utilizing data-driven insights to identify and implement cost-saving measures.
- Design and implement CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps across all code repositories.
- Automate cloud deployments with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Bicep and ARM.
- Implement robust cloud security frameworks, ensuring that all systems are secure, compliant, and resilient against threats.
- Automate operational processes using scripting languages such as PowerShell and Python.
- Act as liaison and collaborate with development teams to reduce delivery cycle time, evangelize DevOps patterns, best practices and culture.
- Collaborate with development teams to optimize performance of Azure applications and infrastructure, monitoring and troubleshooting using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Application Insights.
- Participate in sprint planning, retrospectives, and technical demonstrations.
- Provide technical progress reports, program management plans, and agile artifacts.
- Work closely with stakeholders to ensure excellent Developer experience, interoperability across teams, and platform alignment with project goals.
- Monitor and analyze the performance of cloud systems, identifying opportunities for optimization and cost reduction (FinOps).
- Develop strategies for efficient cloud resource management, ensuring that the cloud infrastructure scales effectively with business growth.
Requirements
Education and Certifications
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Advanced certifications in cloud platforms (e.g. Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Azure Administrator, Azure Fundamentals, Security Engineer, Network Engineer, etc.) are highly desired.
Experience
- 5+ years of DevOps or similar experience on either Azure Cloud or Amazon Web Services (AWS) , with a preference for Azure. Networking, security policies, RBAC, Identity Access Management (IAM), Azure Application Services, Azure SQL, Azure Data Factory and hybrid cloud integrations.
- 5+ years experience in software release management, source control management, and development/scripting. Python, PowerShell, YAML, Bicep, ARM, Azure CLI.
- 5+ years in Software Development with experience in .Net and SQL programming or similar experience as a full stack developer.
- Experience creating and managing CI/CD pipelines and pipeline templates.
- Experience with IaC using languages such as Bicep or Terraform.
Travel Required