Platform Engineer - DevOps and DevEx

Why Wellmark
:
We are a mutual insurance company owned by our policy holders across Iowa and South Dakota, and we’ve built our reputation on over 80 years’ worth of trust. We are not motivated by profits. We are motivated by the well-being of our friends, family, and neighbors–our members. If you’re passionate about joining an organization working hard to put its members first, to provide best-in-class service, and one that is committed to sustainability and innovation, consider applying today!

Why Wellmark Technology? Wellmark is building innovative, modern solutions using cutting edge technology. We are driving organizational transformation and business strategy by empowering our technology team to innovate new and elegant solutions to enhance the customer experience. Together, we are leaning into the future, owning the outcome, and driving organizational change to transform how we work.

• Des Moines, IA, USA
• Employees work in a hybrid mode
• In office on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
• Full-time

We are seeking an experienced platform/staff engineer to elevate our engineering experience and how we work. This role will have three main areas of focus:
Dev Ops Platforms, Engineering Experience, and our AI Enablement Toolkit.

• Elevate Dev Ops practices across Engineering at Wellmark.
• Develop and maintain a modern engineering toolkit.
• Establish practices and standards for engineering.
• Lead engineering forums and communities of practice.
• Create product roadmaps and set the technical strategy within the function.
• Act as a technical liaison to development teams – helping them understand best practices and leverage tools for modern engineering.

Preferred:

• Extensive Dev Ops experience
• Experience implementing DORA metrics or other engineering data insights
• Git Hub suite experience
• IaC (infrastructure as code) experience
• Cloud expertise, particularly AWS
• Agentic Developer toolkit experience (Amazon Q, Git Hub Copilot, Claude code, etc.)
• Experienced driving Engineering Experience across an enterprise environment.
• Developer portal expertise
• Leadership typically gained through a combination of project and informal leadership that demonstrates competencies
• Experience working within an Agile team environment

Required:

• Bachelor's Degree or direct and applicable work experience
• Minimum 7 years of experience to include any combination of the following:
• Development
  
  Experience:
  
  (Ex:
  Angular 2 (or newer), NodeJS (or newer), Type Script, C#, .NET, SQL)
• Providing innovative solutions to complex issues
• Minimum 4 years of experience in IT infrastructure, architecture design, operations
• Proven ability to adapt when experiencing major changes in work tasks or work environment.
• Informal leadership experience typically gained through leading projects.
• Demonstrated experience coaching/mentoring others by providing guidance and feedback to help an employee or groups of employees strengthen their knowledge and skills to accomplish a task or solve a problem.
• Proven experience with designing technical architecture and keeping abreast of existing and emerging technologies.
• Experiencing consulting with stakeholders to understand needs with the intention of providing advice and counsel. Also interacting appropriately with others to guide individuals or groups to accomplish work, reach consensus or take action.
• Demonstrated experience in problem solving/troubleshooting skills (conceptual, technical, IT) - Breaks down problems and identifies all of their facets, including hidden or tricky aspects, to find root-cause of problems. Generates a range of solutions and courses of action with benefits, costs, and risks associated with each. Probes appropriate sources for answers, and thinks ‘outside the box’ to find options. Tests proposed solutions against the reality of likely effects before going forward.
• Demonstrated communication skills: verbal and written - Articulate;
  Communicates information/concepts clearly and concisely to individuals or groups; delivers presentations suited to the characteristics and needs of the stakeholders/audience. Clearly and concisely conveys written information orally or in writing to…