DevOps Analyst, Consultant

Dev Ops Analyst, Consultant – Blue Shield of California

Job Description
The Application Services team plays a critical role in enhancing customer and technical collaboration while delivering all application development through a Platform and Technology Product Operation Model. The Dev Ops Analyst will report to the IT Applications Director. 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.

• Support the creation and maintenance of delivery roadmap for platform feature set(s) or technical product for Health Solutions, in partnership with engineering and architecture.
• 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 (daily stand‑up, sprint planning, retrospective, and demos), representing the needs and perspectives of your assigned development areas.
• Ability to serve as Dev Ops Analyst for more than one technology product line/platform feature team.
• 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.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent technical experience.
• At least 7 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.
• Basic technical knowledge and experience including adherence to architectural design, development standards, security policies, and sustainable design practices.

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 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,…