Software Engineering Lead(Cloud DevOps with Python)

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.

Optum's Public Cloud engineering team is responsible for developing software, managing security and financial controls, and creating reusable application patterns that enable the enterprise to operate efficiently within the public cloud space. The Optum product teams leverage this platform to deliver value in a safe, quick, and sustainable manner, aligning with Optum's mission to help people live healthier lives and makes the health system work better for everyone.

Join our team and work collaboratively with product owners, operational staff, and technology leadership in an agile environment to create business value. Your contributions will be utilized by thousands of Optum and UnitedHealth Group engineers as they develop mature enterprise applications on public cloud. Don't miss this opportunity!

The ideal candidate for this position should possess exceptional software engineering abilities, with a demonstrated history of efficiently managing and utilizing public cloud resources. They should also possess agile development leadership qualities. As a lead engineer, you will leverage these skills to design and engineer new services and software that prioritize scalability, interoperability, and code maintainability.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Working with the Deployment Lead, peer developers to complete various project deployment activities
• Build code for the requirement specifications and write and execute the tests for the impacted components
• Participate in code reviews and Adherence to coding standards
• Adhere to proper use of source control
• Ensuring delivery of technical artifacts for the project
• Identify opportunities to identify repetitive work and automate the same
• Participate in analysis of the current system/application to help finalize the requirements
• Work independently in an Agile environment on the Stories or tasks assigned and
• Support the Engineering lead with new designs and documentation

• Communicate effectively with in the team and cross functional teams

• 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:

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience
• 5+ years experience in Public Cloud - Azure
• Experience in building CI/CD pipelines - Github/GitLab; Jenkins. Etc
• Good experience in DevOPS related work
• AI Experience:
  • Completed AI related training (e.g., fundamental concepts, prompting, etc.)
  • Demonstrable experience leveraging AI enabled tooling to improve productivity
  • Foundational AI literacy (understanding of basic AI ecosystem concepts)
  • Demonstrated commitment to personal AI skill development
• Understanding of Cloud fundamentals and Subscriptions/Resources management in a PaaS
• Understanding of application architecture and underlying components
• Understanding of Cloud fundamentals in IaaS & PaaS
• Proficient in Iaas - Terraform
• Proficient in Python
• Proven ability to bring in Continuous deployment practices to enhance our Agile posture
• Proven ability to participate in the design and implementation of new system layers utilizing a first principles understanding of high complexity compute environments
• Proven good communication skills and should be a quick learner

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with containers and orchestration platforms, such as Kubernetes
• Understanding on AWS
• Proven excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills
• Proven evidence-based approach to decision-making and problem-solving
• Proven exposer to support/Operation role

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.

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