Information Security Engineer 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 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.  

As an Information Security Engineering Consultant in the Enterprise Security & Resiliency Office (ESRO) you will be part of a team of talented engineers responsible for developing and maintaining Asset Tracking solutions for all of UnitedHealth Group. We are looking for a professional software engineer who is passionate about authoring clean, maintainable and testable code to solve challenging problems. It will require understanding and experience of TypeScript, SQL, REST and/or GraphQL apis.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Writing clean, maintainable and testable code to develop software features
• Reproduce bugs, investigate root cause and develop fix
• Review code and offer technical support to fellow team members as needed
• Communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Work closely with various teams that own Systems of Records or Sources of Truth to query, analyze, sanitize, and ingest their data into our knowledge graph
• Think critically to analyze data and gather insights that lead to high-value decisions that improve the security posture across the enterprise
• Stay updated with the latest technologies and industry trends to continuously improve the team’s capabilities
• 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:

• Graduate in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Hands-on experience authoring highly performance SQL queries, working with a wide variety of databases including RDBMS as well as NoSQL databases
• Hands-on experience authoring scalable, high-performance APIs (REST)
• Hands-on experience with automated testing
• Experience with engineering projects hosted in public cloud – AWS, Azure or GCP
• Solid proficiency in TypeScript
• Good understanding of CI/CD pipelines
• Demonstrated ability to deal with ambiguity, changing and often conflicting priorities, to plan and execute while balancing timeliness, quality of deliverables
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with globally distributed teams in a fast-paced agile development environment and manage time effectively
• Proven excellent problem-solving skills and a proactive, go-getter attitude

Preferred Experience:

• Experience with Apollo Server, GraphQL
• Experience with graph databases and Meilisearch or Elasticsearch
• Experience with Containers and Kubernetes
• Understanding of Network Security in cloud and on-prem hosting environments

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.

#njp
#SSTech