Senior 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, and data 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 startCaring. Connecting. Growing together.

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will play a critical role in driving high availability, resilience, and automation for multiple key applications. Joining our team, you will help design and support robust cloud infrastructure, maintain state-of-the-art containerized environments, and establish reliable CI/CD deployment strategies. This is an exciting opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies like Azure, Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes, directly impacting the speed and reliability of nightly, long-running healthcare workloads. You will partner closely with our development and support teams to drive continuous improvement, proactive system monitoring, and operational excellence.

You will enjoy the flexibility to telecommute* from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Support blue-green, rolling, or canary deployments to minimize downtime for multiple high-availability applications
• Provision, manage, and optimize cloud-based infrastructure (e.g., Microsoft Azure) using modern automation tooling
• Maintain and manage containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes to ensure environment consistency across regions and deployments
• Monitor, support, and troubleshoot application runtime health, including JVMs, APIs, batch failures, scheduler issues, and file-processing errors
• Optimize job performance and execution windows, especially for nightly and long-running healthcare workloads
• Partner with development and QA teams to drive operability improvements, deploy reliable rollback strategies, and coordinate production releases
• Implement and maintain comprehensive system monitoring, alerts, and dashboards to support proactive incident prevention and provide runtime insights
• Participate in on-call and production support rotations, leading incident triage, recovery, and root cause analysis (RCA) while ensuring proper documentation

Design, develop, and deploy AI-powered solutions to address complex business challenges with emphasis on responsible use of AI.

You'll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear directions on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree OR 4+ years of Software Engineering
• 6+ years of professional experience in software development or technical support
• 5+ years of experience writing SQL queries for Oracle databases
• 3+ years of experience in an IT systems support or production support role
• 2+ years of experience utilizing shell scripting for task automation

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
• Professional experience provisioning and managing infrastructure using Microsoft Azure and Terraform
• Professional experience with Java development, debugging, or support
• Demonstrated strong analytical, diagnostic, and troubleshooting skills
• Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills, with a proven track record of partnering across development and operations teams

*All Telecommuters will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy.

Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, we offer benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with us, you'll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives. The salary for this role will range from $91,700 - $163,700 annually based on full-time employment. We comply with all minimum wage laws as applicable.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. 

Application Deadline: This will be posted for a minimum of 2 business days or until a sufficient candidate pool has been collected. Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

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.

UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer under applicable law and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.

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