DevOps Engineer – Devops, AWS, Cloud, Java, Python

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:

• Develop customer applications to be cloud optimized particularly AWS
• Work as both an infrastructure and application development specialist
• Implement DevOps practices such as infrastructure as code, continuous integration and automated deployment
• Build and maintain AWS resources using modern Infrastructure-as-Code tooling
• Collaborate with the core engineering team to lead the organization’s platform security efforts
• Build and maintain AWS resources using modern Infrastructure-as-Code tooling (Terraform, Ansible) 
• Build and maintain pipelines and automation through GitOps (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Atlantis, etc.) 
• Create and own platform level services on top of Kubernetes (FluentD, Datadog, Go) 
• Build monitoring and alerting templates for various cloud metrics (Splunk, Datadog, Cloudwatch) 
• Understanding of data integration, migration, and synchronization processes
• 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:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related field
• 5+ years of proven experience managing cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Experience with monitoring tools (e.g., CloudWatch, Datadog, Prometheus)
• Experience with AWS services such as ECS, EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM, QuickSight, CloudFront, SQS, ElastiCache, and/or Lambda
• Experience in container orchestration using Kubernetes for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications
• Experience in collaborating with DevOps teams for continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipelines
• Proficiency in containerization technologies such as Docker for creating, deploying, and managing containers
• Knowledge of container networking, storage, and security concepts
• Familiarity with container registries, container monitoring, and logging tools
• Solid SQL skills and expertise in query optimization
• Familiarity with PostgreSQL extensions, replication, and high availability configurations
• Scripting and automation skills (Selenium, Java, Groovy)
• Proven excellent communication and collaboration skills

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.