Senior Site Reliability Engineer – Azure, DevOps

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 Responsibility:

• 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:

• B.E/B.Tech/MCA/MSc/MTech (16+ years of formal education)
• 5+ years of experience
• Proven record of experience in administration of cloud infrastructure and deployed applications for enterprise SaaS or PaaS companies in public clouds such as Azure (Preferred), AWS, GCP
  
• Good experience in creating CI/CD process or managing Kubernetes environments or creating terraform IaC pipelines
  
• Experience with hybrid connectivity, network architecture, and cloud security protocols
  
• Knowledge of data migration challenges, including schema compatibility and authentication transitions (e.g., Windows to SQL Auth)
  
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools, infrastructure as code, and monitoring frameworks
  
• Exposure to Datafactory, Databricks, AML or other Azure offering as required
• Proficient with DevOps tools and environments like Jenkins, Docker, Git etc.
  
• On-Prem Maintenance: Proven ability to ensure high availability, performance, and reliability of existing on-prem applications using HDFS, YARN, SQL Server, SSIS, and .NET Blazor
  
• Cloud Migration Strategy: Proven ability to architect and execute migration plans to Azure, including infrastructure setup, data migration, and application replatforming
  
• Cloud Architecture Design: Proven ability to develop scalable, secure, and resilient Azure architectures using services like Azure SQL, Azure Functions, Azure Web Apps, and Azure Data Factory
  
• CI/CD & Automation: Proven ability to implement CI/CD pipelines and automation for deployment and monitoring using Azure DevOps or equivalent tools
  
• Security & Compliance: Proven ability to enforce security best practices including TLS 1.2, Azure Key Vault, and role-based access control (RBAC)
  
• Monitoring & Reliability: Proven ability to set up observability tools and SRE practices to monitor SLAs, SLOs, and error budgets across hybrid environments
  
• Collaboration: Proven ability to work closely with data scientists, developers, and infrastructure teams to ensure seamless integration of ML models and data pipelines

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.