Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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 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:

• Solid developer/coding background. Preferred certified SREs, but also accept candidates with 7+ years IT-working experience as SRE roles in large scale projects; Or 7+ years IT working experience with equivalent responsibilities and roles of SRE. Experience with infrastructures, system admin, production supports
• Project: USP applications
• Risk: USP Cirrus Site Reliability Engineering, Automation, GCP and important USP migrations and initiatives, vulnerabilities remediations, USP application and system stability, availability and reliability, capacity planning
• Metrics: application and system availability, stability, reliability, SRE golden signals, stable and reliable peak season, migration and PLM milestones
• Kubernates
• Database
• Java, scripting languages
• Automation
• Ability to develop and provide operational support for full-stack software applications
• Ability to collaborate with development operations staff to create, automate, monitor, and troubleshoot the system infrastructure
• Ability to improve and maintain system stability
• Ability to increase system resilience and serve larger customer volumes with expert-level coding
• Ability to improve automation and increase the system’s self-healing capability
• Ability to collect operating system data and report performance metrics to stakeholders

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.