Associate Software Engineering Manager

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.

The DevOps Engineer is responsible for maturing the DevOps mindset within the agile teams using techniques such as Acceptance Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Delivery to provide quality products with seamless integration across Development, Quality Assurance, Infrastructure, Operations, and Release Management roles.

Candidates will work in a DevOps team environment and are expected to work on both tactical and strategic assignments. Candidates are expected to handle the manual work while figuring out how to automate it.

Primary Responsibility:

• 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
• 6+ years of hands-on experience on commercial cloud platforms like Azure, GCP; Azure – native cloud solution design primary skills include:
  • 3+ years of continuous integration experience; Automation – identifying work that is currently being done manually and deliver reliable automated solutions
  • Sound knowledge on IaaC – Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform; Continuous integration experience (for example tools like Jenkins)
  • Experience with programmatic interaction with a relational database, preferably a recent version of MySQL / any NoSQL DB; DevOps – creating and managing CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins / Git Actions
  • Cloud infrastructure – understanding best practices regarding cloud infrastructure deployment, security and operations
• Solution architecture – especially in complex enterprise-oriented ecosystems in which security and availability are critical

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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