IAM Cloud Engineer

Optum is a global organisation 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. 

In healthcare, evolution doesn’t just happen. It takes innovation, imagination, and a passion for solving problems in new and better ways. And innovation is taking place at a lightning-fast pace every day at Optum. 

As the fastest growing part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, we’re expanding our team in Ireland and creating excellent opportunities for those who want greater purpose and more impact in their work. We’ll provide the investment, support, and resources to advance your career. You’ll provide the talent, ambition, and drive.

IAM Cloud Engineering team at UHG specializes in developing capabilities that enable our cloud enterprise applications and protects access to our cloud assets, data and services. 

As a member of this innovative agile team, you will collaborate with others to maintain and optimize these capabilities to secure our growing dynamic cloud computing environments.  Engineers on this team will work with many popular vendor and open-source technologies, internally developed applications and cloud native services. You will be challenged to provide technical and thought leadership and to succeed in this role, you need to be eager to learn, able to work through ambiguity, problem solve and communicate effectively. We are looking for a security-focused DevOps engineer that is a self-starter and demonstrates a solid understanding of the impact of their work.  One who is continuously looking for opportunities to simplify and optimize cloud IAM technologies and processes. 

Schedule: Full-time position with standard working hours of Monday – Friday from 9am to 5pm.

Careers with Optum offer flexible work arrangements and individuals who live and work in the Republic of Ireland will have the opportunity to split their monthly work hours between our Dublin office and telecommuting from a home-based office in a hybrid work model. 

Primary Responsibilities:  

• Define and develop solutions to enforce least privilege access policies  
• Implement and manage access controls, including role-based access control (RBAC)   
• Implement and manage Azure Conditional Access Policies to meet organizational access and security objectives  
• Monitoring, logging, and analyzing system performance using GCP operations suite to maintain system health and optimize costs  
• Develop and implement disaster recovery and data backup strategies and solutions to maintain business continuity  
• Collaborate with development teams to enable CI/CD pipelines for efficient software deployment using GCP services  
• Establish and maintain cloud identity governance frameworks  
• Develop and maintain guardrails to enforce/measure IAM cloud compliance with regulatory requirements  
• Conduct periodic access reviews and monitor user activity  
• Lead cloud migration and modernization initiatives  
• Advise on best practices for cloud security, reliability, and scalability  
• Drive innovation and discovery efforts around new GCP features and services  
• Participates in the development of prototypes and large-scale proof of concepts  
• Maintain knowledgeable around current application security controls  

 You will be rewarded and recognised for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role, as well as providing development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:  

• Experience Deploying and operating resources in GCP and Azure 
• Experience with GCP Identity and Access Management concepts and security frameworks 
• Experience with Google Cloud Console and Google Cloud Workspace  
• Experience with Workload Identity Federation and Workforce Identity Federation 
• Experience with Developing and managing Organization policies 
• Experience with Federation technologies and protocols such as SAML, OAuth, OIDC, etc. 
• Intermediate level proficiency with popular scripting and programming language frameworks such as python, Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK, M365 Graph API, Shell Scripting languages 
• Understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IAC) and experience working with CI/CD technologies such as git and terraform 

Preferred Qualifications:  

• Experience working with Microsoft Entra ID, multi-factor authentication, user provisioning, privileged Identity management (PIM), single sign-on (SSO) 
• Experience working with Cloud IAM functionality across multiple public cloud services (IAM Roles, Permissions and Policies)  
• Advocate of CI/CD and DevOps best practices 
• Ample experience operating with cloud platforms, APIs and event-driven automation 
• Fundamental understanding of PHI/PII data and the restrictions around it using limited data sets/de-identified data for analysis/development and testing where applicable 
• Certifications: CompTIA Security+, Azure Administrator Associate, Azure Fundamentals, CCSP, Google Cloud Professional, Cloud Architect or similar is highly desirable 

Soft Skills: 

• Passionate about innovation and enjoys the challenges of creating something new 
• Technical and thought leadership skills and ability to collaborate with others to successfully deliver on large, complex initiatives 
• Written and verbal communication skills 

Please note you must currently be eligible to work and remain indefinitely without any restrictions in the country to which you are making an application. Proof will be required to support your application.

All telecommuters will be required to adhere to the UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy.

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 marginalised 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.

 

 

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: Optum is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, disability, religion, age, race, and membership of the Traveller community, or any other characteristic protected by law. Optum is a drug-free workplace. © 2025 Optum Services (Ireland) Limited. All rights reserved.

 

 

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