Data Engineering Consultant

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:

• Design, deploy, and manage high-availability Azure cloud infrastructure with a focus on scalability and security
• Implement and monitor Azure resources including virtual networks, storage, and Azure Active Directory
• Build an extensible Environment and manage VMs, VM scale sets, containers analytics compute environment with Azure Data bricks that can used directly by the end user
• Implement Azure governance and security practices, including RBAC, policies, Managing Cluster and Azure Security Center
• Manage pipelines for CI/CD and Release Management workflows / GitHub-Jenkins integration and deployment through Terraform
• Prioritize modularity, reusability, and componentization of solutions
• Work collaboratively with a distributed cross org team of engineers, architects, and data analysts
• Support products that are live in the cloud by building monitoring and testing tooling, responding to real time customer reported incidents, monitoring for errors and performance impacting events, and defining best practices for operational readiness
• This role will habitually interact with internal and external customers on security-related projects and operational tasks
• 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
• 7+ years of overall experience with excellent written and verbal communication skills and ability to work independently as well as with a team
• 5+ years of experience with Microsoft Azure
• 3+ years of experience with Terraform
• 3+ years of experience doing analytics platform/infrastructure work
• Experience with PowerShell, ARM templates, and Azure DevOps for automation
• Experience of working on Azure key vault/Kubernetes secrets/Hashicorp vault
• Experience with a range of Azure native monitoring, alerting, and operational tooling: Activity Log, Network Monitoring, Security Center, Log Analytics, Metrics Explorer, etc.
• Experience designing security, performance, and operational monitoring and alerting systems and processes
• Experience with open-source monitoring and operations tools
• Experience in support/operations/monitoring role
• Experience working in Windows/Unix/Linux environments
• Experience integrating with disparate data sources
• Experience in migrating existing on-prem product to cloud
• Experience and understanding of modern Identity & Access Management concepts and best practices
• Cloud monitoring experience with Azure Monitor, Azure Application Insights, and Log Analytics and cost monitoring of Workspace or other open-source tools
• Healthcare IT experience with compliance such as HIPAA and/or HITRUST, experience with security controls
• Expert of formal architecture, design patterns and best practices for Azure cloud services
• Proven ability to implement and manage CI/CD pipelines using Git, Git Actions, and Terraform
• Proven excellent analytical and Communication skills (Both Verbal and Written)
• Willing or flexible to collaborate with US team, during US business hours
• Willing or flexible to support project releases, during US business hours
  

Preferred Qualification:

• Microsoft Certified: Azure certification

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.