Software Engineering Lead – Cloud Devops 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 Responsibilities:

• Working with Software Engineering teams; evaluate system specifications, provision and support delivery of application infrastructure
• Define and drive AWS and Azure Architecture decisions to ensure the stability, reliability and availability of applications and services
• Create and maintain IAC using Terraform & Configuration Management using Ansible / Chef
• Create and configure CI pipeline supporting Continuous Delivery
• Implement and document agreed upon standards to support auto-scaling infrastructure
• Administer Windows and Linux Servers including configuration, patching and ensure overall server health
• Analyze all aspects of existing application infrastructure and recommend modifications that will enhance application reliability, availability and scalability
• Engage in capacity planning and demand forecasting, software performance analysis and system tuning
• Performance analysis using APM and other monitoring tools to identify system performance issues and bottlenecks
• Work with log aggregation tools like Splunk
• Other responsibilities as determined necessary
• 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 with AWS/Azure/Public Cloud ecosystem, infrastructure automation and monitoring tools
• Experience in migrating and transforming existing systems to the cloud using AWS/Azure tools and best practices
• Practical experience with EKS, Envoy, API gateway, Service Mesh
• Knowledge of Terraform for cross-platform cloud provisioning
• Expertise in identifying and mitigating infrastructure security vulnerabilities
• Expertise in managing cost optimized infrastructure setups
• Expertise in setting monitors, triggers, alerts and managing the infra setup on highest availability and reliability standards
• Tools / tech expertise:
  • Docker, K8S, Helm
  • GitHub Actions, Jenkins
  • Terraform, Ansible
  • AWS/Azure
  • IaaS (Compute, storage & network)
• Specialization in Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) for container orchestration
• Solid skills in AWS/Azure networking, such as configuring VPC’s, firewalls, load balancers, Transit Gateways, and VPNs
• Proficiency in DevOps Tools and technical know how to use them for continuous integration, continuous delivery, pipelines, and Git version control
• Proven problem-solving and analytical skills to handle complex challenges and issues
• Proven team player attitude and willingness to collaborate with others
• Proven solid in analytical problem solving and looking beyond what’s obvious

Preferred Qualifications:

• Any relevant industry certifications
• Professional certifications with AWS and Azure 
• Experience in supporting cloud migration in AWS/Azure
• Scripting experience (Bash, Ruby, Python etc.)
• APM experience with Splunk, New Relic, Dynatrace

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.