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Sr Platform Engineer

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska
Omaha, USA
Full-time
Senior
Hybrid
Discovered 2 days ago

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What you'll do

  • Own the platform: Lead the technical direction, health, reliability, and lifecycle of the enterprise Databricks platform, including workspace configuration, compute, jobs, and SQL warehouses.
  • Set the guardrails: Define and enforce standards for identity, access, networking, Unity Catalog, and sensitive-data controls, with clear ownership boundaries between platform and workload teams.
  • Automate and enable self-service: Build Terraform-based Infrastructure-as-Code and automation using GitHub, the Databricks CLI, REST APIs, Python, or PowerShell, and publish golden paths for data, analytics, and AI workloads.
  • Advance responsible AI: Apply AI-assisted engineering to platform support and enable governed adoption of Databricks AI capabilities such as Genie, agents, and model serving.
  • Lead modernization: Drive upgrades, migrations, integrations, and security remediations, and prioritize enhancements based on risk, customer feedback, and adoption.
  • Run it well and cost-effectively: Own monitoring, incident response, and root-cause analysis, and optimize utilization through compute policies, budgets, tagging, and chargeback or showback.
  • Partner and mentor: Work with security, architecture, compliance, and data teams, mentor engineers, and serve as the backup for one other Platform Engineering platform.
  • To be considered for this position, you must have:
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Data Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field; an equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.
  • Seven (7) years of experience in information technology, data engineering, cloud operations, platform engineering, DevOps, infrastructure support, or a related technical field.
  • Hands-on production experience administering, securing, and troubleshooting an enterprise cloud data platform such as Databricks, Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, or a comparable platform, including workspace or account configuration, compute, jobs, SQL warehouses, permissions, and usage policies.
  • Experience delivering reusable data platform capabilities, guardrails, or deployment patterns adopted by multiple teams.
  • Experience building Infrastructure-as-Code with Terraform or comparable tools and automating with Python, PowerShell, platform CLIs, or REST APIs.
  • Advanced knowledge of cloud identity, networking, storage, security, and monitoring as they relate to enterprise data platforms, preferably in Microsoft Azure.
  • The strongest candidates for this position will also possess:
  • Direct production experience with Databricks, or a demonstrated ability to quickly transfer comparable data platform experience to Databricks.
  • Experience operating enterprise data platforms in regulated or security-conscious environments such as healthcare or financial services.
  • Data platform or cloud certifications (such as Databricks, Snowflake, or Microsoft Azure) in platform administration, data engineering, security, or architecture.
  • Experience leading data platform migrations, data governance or catalog adoption (such as Unity Catalog), disaster recovery planning, or other major modernization efforts.
  • Experience with GitHub Enterprise or Azure API Management, or a track record of quickly ramping up on new platforms.
  • A track record of mentoring engineers, influencing technical strategy, and delivering measurable platform outcomes.
  • We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.
  • An equivalent combination of education and experience may be substituted for this requirement. The ability to meet or exceed the attendance and timeliness requirements of their departments. On-call work may be required based on business needs and role assignment. The ability to work well in a team environment and be capable of building and maintaining positive relationships with other staff, departments, and customers.
  • To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Other duties may be assigned.
  • Learn more about what makes BCBSNE such an exceptional place to work by visiting NebraskaBlue.com/Careers.
  • We strongly believe that diversity of experience, perspective and background will lead to a better workplace for our employees and a better product for our customers and members.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Data Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field; an equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.
  • Experience with GitHub Enterprise or Azure API Management, or a track record of quickly ramping up on new platforms.

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