Associate DevOps 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

Builds and maintains the tooling and infrastructure used to automate the release, deployment, and upgrade processes. Combines software development and IT operations practices which shorten the systems delivery life cycle and provide a continuous delivery platform. Improve communication and collaboration to enable rapid product development by serving as the liaison between the development and operations teams. Dev-Ops area complements the efficiencies of Agile software development methods by creating more stable operating environments, and continuously improving the infrastructure to be easily deployable and scalable. Incumbents maintain advanced knowledge of development processes and programming languages.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Managing Deployments: Overseeing all aspects of deployments for new releases and critical patches
• Performance Monitoring: Monitoring the performance of instances from CDN to caching/performance tools
• Automation: Creating and enhancing automation processes related to deployments and performance monitoring
• Content Transition: Managing the transition of content between different environments.
• Backup and Logs: Maintaining key elements of instances, including backups and viewing logs
• Infrastructure Management: Designing, implementing, and managing infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools
• CI/CD Pipelines: Implementing and managing Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines to automate software and code releases
• Collaboration: Facilitating collaboration between development teams, operations teams, and other stakeholders to establish productivity and continuous improvement
• Monitoring and Alerts: Implementing monitoring, logging, alerts, and dashboards to track the performance and health of applications and infrastructure
• Troubleshooting: Providing support and troubleshooting issues related to applications, systems, and infrastructure
• Basic, structured, standard approach to work
• 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:

• Educational Background: A degree in computer science, information technology, software engineering, or a related field
• Advanced Degrees: While not always required, having a Master’s degree in a relevant field can be beneficial
• Certifications: Professional certifications such as Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, or Certified Kubernetes Administrator can enhance your qualifications
• Programming Skills: Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Ruby, Java, and scripting languages like Bash
• Experience with CI/CD: Hands-on experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, or CircleCI
• Cloud Platforms: Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Familiarity with IaC tools like Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation
• Containerization: Experience with containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes
• Monitoring and Logging: Knowledge of monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, or Splunk
• Collaboration and Communication: Solid collaboration and communication skills to work effectively with development and operations teams.

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.