Principal Cloud 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

The Cloud Migration and Modernization Engineering (CMME) team is seeking an experienced, lead-level, cloud solution architect with a demonstrated ability to evaluate, solution, estimate, implement and document cloud centric application architectures and deployment methodologies. The candidate must be able to advise application and data migration efforts and directly contribute to the design and implementation of varied application solutions, IaC implementation, and operational capabilities.  We solution for and operate across Azure, AWS, and GCP cloud service providers, however, this position will have an Azure focus.

Team members in this role must understand development and deployment workflows and be capable of providing appropriate and actionable guidance pertinent to re-factoring applications towards more cloud optimal architectures and alignment to cloud well-architected best-practices. Individuals in this role must have the ability to drive technical solutioning efforts, mentor team members, and work in collaboration with other teams to drive application migration and modernization efforts.

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:

• Azure Certification(s) (verifiable)
• Azure – 5+ years solutioning and deploying applications in Azure cloud
• Lead Experience – 3+ years in a role demonstrating ability to own and drive deliverables with minimal technical guidance
• Experience architecting for both Linux and Windows environments
• Azure function apps (serverless architectures)
• Azure Container Apps / AKS (proficiency with containerized deployment architectures)
• Azure Database & Cosmos DB (relational and NoSQL database design, data management)
• Networking (solid understanding of general and cloud virtual networking)
• Azure cloud security and recovery practices
• Web services and API design
• Azure data streaming/messaging services (e.g. Stream Analytics, Functions, Kafka)
• IaC with Terraform
• CI/CD automation using GitHub / GitHub Actions
• Implementation of auto-scaling, cost-management techniques, and operational monitoring

Preferred Qualifications:

• Golang / Python / .Net-C# / Java (Prefer at least one, with a leaning towards Golang)
• Experience with alternative cloud service providers (AWS, GCP)
• Hashicorp Vault
• Kubernetes
• Databricks pipelines
• MLOps

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.