Senior DevOps Engineer
Optum is a global organisation 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.
At OptumInsight (OI), we champion continuous innovation to provide software, network, and data analytics, technology-enabled services, advisory, and revenue cycle management offerings to help make health care work better for everyone.
UnitedHealthcare offers a full range of health benefits, enabling affordable coverage, simplifying the health care experience, and delivering access to high quality care. Our mission calls us, our values guide us, and our diverse culture connects us as we seek to improve care for the consumers we are privileged to serve and their communitie
At UnitedHealth Group and Optum, we want to make healthcare work better for everyone. This depends on hiring the best and brightest. With a thriving ecosystem of investment and innovation, our business in Ireland is constantly growing to support the healthcare needs of the future.
Our teams are at the forefront of building and adapting the latest technologies to propel healthcare forward in a way that better serves everyone. With our hands at work across all aspects of health, we use the most advanced development tools, AI, data science and innovative approaches to make the healthcare system work better for everyone.
Careers with Optum offer flexible work arrangements and individuals who live and work in the Republic or Ireland will have the opportunity to split their monthly work hours between our Dublin or Letterkenny office and telecommuting from a home-based office.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Infrastructure: Design, implement, and maintain infrastructure for production solutions on AWS focusing on scalability, reliability, and cost optimization
- Security: Drive and Implement security practices and monitoring according to Optum standards
- Infrastructure as Code: Maintain and automate cloud infrastructure as code using Terraform
- Pipeline Optimization: Monitor and troubleshoot pipeline issues, proactively identifying and implementing solutions to enhance pipeline performance
- Collaboration: Collaborate closely with development teams to seamlessly integrate pipeline processes with their workflows, ensuring a smooth development lifecycle
- Process Improvement: Continuously evaluate and enhance testing processes and tools to maintain the highest level of quality in delivered solutions
- Technology Research: Stay current with emerging technologies and trends in the DevOps field, sharing relevant knowledge and insights with the team to drive innovation and improvement
You will be rewarded and recognised for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role, as well as providing development for other roles you may be interested in.
Required Qualifications
- DevOps expertise including extensive experience in DevOps utilizing AWS, Hands-on experience with IT operational automation, configuration management tools, and a strong understanding of DevOps practices, processes, and tools (e.g., Git, CI/CD, Terraform, Chef, Jenkins, etc.)
- Experience with CI/CD tools such as GitHub utilizing GitHub actions
- Cloud Knowledge including experience with public cloud platforms and in particular AWS and good understanding of container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes
- Scripting Skills including proficiency in Terraform
- Experience in Agile development methodologies and a history of successful collaboration within cross-functional teams
Preferred Qualifications
- Containerization Proficiency: Experience in building containers using Docker files, and familiarity with container build tools like Bazel
- Kubernetes Deployment: Working knowledge of deploying applications within a Kubernetes cluster using Helm, streamlining the deployment process
- Cloud Administration: Practical experience in administering applications within a public cloud environment, with a preference for AWS expertise
- Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus, Splunk, Grafana, Elasticsearch (ES), Kibana, etc., to enhance observability and troubleshooting
- Data Science tooling exposure such as Spark, R Studio, Jupyter, Pytorch, SQL query exposure
Soft Skills:
- Problem solving and troubleshooting skills
- Communication skills, both written and verbal, in English are essential for effective collaboration and documentation
- Self-motivated, resourceful, creative, innovative, and results-driven with strong problem-solving and analytical capabilities
Please note you must currently be eligible to work and remain indefinitely without any restrictions in the country to which you are making an application. Proof will be required to support your application.
All telecommuters will be required to adhere to the UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy.
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 marginalised 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.
Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: Optum is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, disability, religion, age, race, and membership of the Traveller community, or any other characteristic protected by law. Optum is a drug-free workplace. © 2024 Optum Services (Ireland) Limited. All rights reserved.
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Additional Job Detail Information
Requisition Number 2276749
Business Segment Optum
Employee Status Regular
Travel No
Additional Locations
Letterkenny, Ulster, IE
Overtime Status Exempt
Schedule Full-time
Shift Day Job
Telecommuter Position No
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