Infrastructure Operations Engineering Consultant

Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data and resources they need to feel their best. Here, you will find a culture guided by diversity and inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Design and develop Linux infrastructure and also Help tune performance and ensure high availability of infrastructure
• Ability to build and monitor services on production servers
• Create and configure CI pipeline supporting Continuous Delivery
• Create and configure Configuration Management Using Ansible
• Administer Windows and Linux Servers including configuration, patching and ensure overall server health
• Analyze all aspects of existing application infrastructure and recommend modifications that will enhance application reliability, availability and scalability
• Performance analysis using APM and other monitoring tools to identify system performance issues and bottlenecks
• Work with log aggregation tools like Splunk and ELK
• Analyze dump files and error codes
• Provide Root Cause Analysis, Troubleshoot, research and analyze complex problems
• Provide Support in for Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery
• Be involved in solving moderately complex problems and/or conduct moderately complex analysis
• Identify / quantify scope and impact of business changes on systems
• Participate in on – call rotation maintaining application availability
• Other responsibilities as determined necessary
• Comply with the terms and conditions of the employment contract, company policies and procedures, and any and all directives (such as, but not limited to, transfer and/or re-assignment to different work locations, change in teams and/or work shifts, policies in regards to flexibility of work benefits and/or work environment, alternative work arrangements, and other decisions that may arise due to the changing business environment). The Company may adopt, vary or rescind these policies and directives in its absolute discretion and without any limitation (implied or otherwise) on its ability to do so

Required Qualifications:

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience
• 3+ years of experience supporting, configuring and engineering applications
• 3+ years of Experience with app and web server configuration and maintenance (JBoss, WebSphere, Apache Tomcat)
• 2+ years of Linux / UNIX System Administration experience
• Hands-on experience with Ansible and Chef for configuration management
• Expertise in identifying and mitigating infrastructure security vulnerabilities
• Experience troubleshooting complex infrastructure problems in an enterprise environment
• Ability to communicate analysis including trends and opportunities to improve service availability
• Tools / tech expertise:
  • Linux Admin/ Windows Admin
  • Middleware Admin: JBoss
  • CI / CD : GitHub Actions, Jenkins and Ansible
  • Monitoring : Splunk / Dynatrace / New Relic

At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone–of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income–deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes — an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.

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