Senior Site Reliability 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 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 Responsibilities:

• Works as a software developer in the cloud operations team
• Define and drive automation of cloud operations and deployment using different toolset
• Define and drive implementation of Cloud Operations procedures
• Define and implement effective and reliable cloud infrastructure
• 24×7 shift-based support with rotating on-call
• 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:

• Bachelor's degree in information systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field or equivalent certification
• 5+ years of experience in automation and administration of IT systems including compute resources, network, storage, general access control.
• 3+ years of proven record of experience and success in administration of cloud infrastructure and deployed applications for enterprise SaaS or PaaS companies in public clouds such as GCP (Preferred), AWS, Azure
• 1+ years of programming experience in any of the platforms like python, node.js, or any other language
• 1+ years of experience in creating CI/CD processes or managing Kubernetes environments or creating terraform IaC pipelines.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 1+ years of experience with cloud security principles, including DDoS prevention, vulnerability management, and patching
• 1+ years of exposure with AI-Ops/AI-powered coding and analysis tools
• Knowledge of cloud networking, cloud security, centralized logging and monitoring tools. Solid foundation in Linux/Windows operating systems and tools

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.