Senior I O Engineering Consultant – Cloud Engineer – Azure, AWS and GCP

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 inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Partner with application teams to design and execute migrations from on‑premises or legacy hosting into Azure, AWS, and GCP
• Provide architectural guidance aligned to Well‑Architected pillars (security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization, and operational excellence)
• Help teams modernize workloads using cloud‑native services where appropriate
• Identify and mitigate migration risks related to security, availability, and cost
• Develop Infrastructure as Code and GitHub Action workflows to deploy cloud resources
• Utilize enterprise platform tools to provision and manage cloud resources
• Support day‑to‑day operations of public cloud environments, including on-call responsibilities and scheduled maintenance tasks
• Coordinate and execute high-quality planned changes without service impact
• Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives
• Improve monitoring, alerting, and observability across cloud environments
• Design, build, and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and GitHub Action workflows
• Develop automation using Python and PowerShell to reduce toil
• Promote standardized, repeatable patterns for resource deployment
• Reduce configuration drift and improve environment consistency across dev, test, and prod
• Utilize Generative AI tools to improve development and operational efficiency
• Embed security best practices into cloud designs (identity, networking, encryption, secrets management)
• Strictly enforce enterprise security and compliance rules governing public cloud technologies.
• Identify and remediate cloud vulnerabilities within expected SLAs
• Partner with security teams to meet enterprise security and compliance requirements
• Identify and execute on cloud cost optimization opportunities
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to application teams adopting public cloud
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to shared documentation and playbooks
• Stay current on enterprise cloud platforms, tooling, and patterns
• Stay current on public cloud services, tooling, and industry best practices
• Committed to developing mastery in public cloud and AI technologies
• 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 regard 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 Systems, or related field
• 8+ years of hands‑on experience in cloud engineering, infrastructure, or platform operations.
• Solid production experience with at least two of the following: Azure, AWS, GCP.
• Deep understanding of cloud infrastructure, networking, identity, and security fundamentals.
• Extensive experience with Infrastructure as Code, especially Terraform.
• Demonstrated automation skills using Python.
• Proficiency with cloud CLI interfaces.
• Practical experience applying SRE concepts in real‑world environments.
• Experience supporting or operating mission‑critical production workloads.
• Experience applying Gen AI tools and technologies to cloud operations work.
• Ability to communicate (verbally and written) complex technical concepts clearly to technical and business partners.
• Ability to participate in an on-call rotation and perform off-hours maintenance work.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced certification in public cloud technologies (i.e. Azure Solutions Architecture Expert).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions) and Git‑based development workflows.
• Experience with Splunk and creating alerts, reports, and dashboards.
• Familiarity with container platforms and orchestration (e.g., AKS).
• Background in cost optimization, FinOps, or cloud financial management.
• Healthcare or regulated‑industry experience.

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.