Senior Site Reliability Engineering – Remote

Requisition Number: 2345358
Job Category: Technology
Primary Location: Richmond, BC, CA
(Remote considered)

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Optum Tech is a global leader in health care innovation. Our teams develop cutting-edge solutions that help people live healthier lives and help make the health system work better for everyone. From advanced data analytics and AI to cybersecurity, we use innovative approaches to solve some of health care’s most complex challenges. Your contributions here have the potential to change lives. Ready to build the next breakthrough? Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

 

The Sr Cloud Engineer/Sr Site Reliability Engineer is a member of Cloud Operations Automation team and responsible for the reliability, security and efficiency of Change Healthcare’s cloud environments and products that comprise Enterprise Imaging solutions.  The engineer will also participate in the Cloud Operations team’s activities including continuous delivery, configuration changes, performance monitoring, and ensure high availability of systems. The engineer will be an active leader on the incident management process including triaging and resolution of incidents.

 

You’ll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within Canada (except for the Saskatchewan province) as you take on some tough challenges.

 

Primary Responsibilities:

  • Works as a software tools developer in the cloud operations team
  • Define and drive automation of cloud operations and deployment using different toolset
  • Define and drive implementation of Cloud Operations procedures
  • Define and implement effective and reliable cloud infrastructure
  • 24×7 shift-based support with rotating on-call

 

You’ll be rewarded and recognized 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 provide development for other roles you may be interested in. 

Required Qualifications:

  • 5+ years of experience administering cloud infrastructure and production applications including Kubernetes based workloads for enterprise-scale SaaS or PaaS environments in public clouds such as GCP (preferred), AWS, or Azure
  • 3+ years of solid understanding of DevOps and SRE principles, including version control, IaC/Terraform, automated testing, continuous delivery, observability, and incident response
  • 2+ years of solid proficiency with programming or scripting language used for automation, tooling, or service development (e.g., Python, JavaScript)
  • 1+ years of exposure with AI-Ops/AI-powered coding and analysis tools

 

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in information systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field or equivalent certification
  • 1+ years of experience with cloud security principles, including DDoS prevention, vulnerability management, and patching
  • Knowledge of cloud networking, cloud security, centralized logging and monitoring tools.
  • Solid foundation in Linux/Windows operating systems and tools

     

*All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy

 

Canada Residents Only: The salary range for Canada residents is $82,700 to $171,900 annually. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, certifications, etc.

 

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.  

 

 

UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer under applicable law and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations.

Additional Job Detail Information

Requisition Number 2345358

Business Segment Optum

Employee Status Regular

Job Level Individual Contributor

Travel No

Country: CA

Overtime Status Exempt

Schedule Full-time

Shift Day Job

Telecommuter Position Yes

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