Senior Software Engineer Lead

*Defining and setting up best industry alert and monitoring practices across line of business and design/architect efficient monitoring dashboards on Splunk/Dynatrace/DataDog/Grafana common for all applications/products across line of business
*Support and maintain configuration management for various applications and systems
*Identify and resolve a broad range of problems that occur in production applications and systems
*Evaluate applications from resiliency, availability, and reliability perspective
*Lead automation efforts for manual operational tasks
*Embrace continuous learning of engineering practices to ensure industry best practices and technology adoption, including DevOps, Cloud and Agile thinking
*Improve processes and create playbooks for operational activities
*Act as a gatekeeper for changes rolling into production
*Participate in on-call rotation
*Improve operational tooling, frameworks, perform chaos engineering activities
*Respond to platform emergencies, alerts, and escalations from Customer Support
– Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience.
*Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience
*Overall, 7-9 years of experience in IT industry across entire SDLC
*Proven work experience as a Site Reliability Engineer, IT Operations Support Engineer or similar role
*3+ years of experience in Splunk / Dynatrace / DataDog/Grafana/ Telemetry or similar monitoring tools
*2+ years of experience building and programmatically consuming REST APIs
*Hands On deep knowledge of shell scripting and automation languages like Ruby, Powershell or Unix
*2+ Years experience with at least one higher-level language (Java, Python or similar)
*Experience with web server configuration, monitoring, basic network administration and troubleshooting
*Experience with programmatic interaction with a relational database SQL Server/MySQL/PostgreSQL
*Solid understanding of engineering fundamentals: unit testing, performance testing, code reviews, telemetry, agile and DevOps
*Strong understanding of: continuous integration / continuous delivery tools, serverless architecture, containerization, public / private cloud, application observability and/or messaging / stream architecture
*Ability to communicate effectively to both technical and non-technical, globally distributed audiences
*Technical writing skills (creating flow diagrams, end user documentation, etc)
Careers with Optum. Here’s the idea. We built an entire organization around one giant objective; make the health system work better for everyone. So when it comes to how we use the world’s large accumulation of health-related information, or guide health and lifestyle choices or manage pharmacy benefits for millions, our first goal is to leap beyond the status quo and uncover new ways to serve. Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, brings together some of the greatest minds and most advanced ideas on where health care has to go in order to reach its fullest potential. For you, that means working on high performance teams against sophisticated challenges that matter. Optum, incredible ideas in one incredible company and a singular opportunity to do your life’s best work.^SM

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