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 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 start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

Join UHG as a Senior DevOps Engineer on a team that supports our production infrastructure.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Help teams architect scalable, highly available application solutions that leverage our platform services

• Architect and develop customer applications to be cloud optimized

• Work as a technical leader alongside application, development, and infrastructure teams

• Provide deep software development knowledge with respect cloud architecture, design patterns, and programming

• Work as both an infrastructure and application development specialist

• Implement DevOps practices such as infrastructure as code, continuous integration and automated deployment. 

• Work with other DevOps teams to provide features, training, support, and elicit feedback

• Provide our platform with guidance on well-architected frameworks and best practices

• Advise on current and future technologies to help improve our efficiency

• Create RFCs and POCs

• Build and maintain AWS resources using modern Infrastructure-as-Code tooling (Terraform, Ansible)

• Build and maintain pipelines and automation through GitOps (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Atlantis, etc.)

• Create and own platform level services on top of Kubernetes (FluentD, Datadog, Go)

• Develop automation scripts by submitting PRs and participating in code reviews (Github)

• Build monitoring and alerting templates for various cloud metrics (Splunk, Datadog, Cloudwatch)

• Participate in a shared on-call rotation

• We handle healthcare data, so you'll observe HIPAA and related laws

• 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:

• 4+ years of experience with AWS (or equivalent Clouds)

• 4+ years of experience with GitOps

• 3+ years of experience with Kubernetes

• 3+ year of DevOps experience in a complex development environment

• 3+ years of experience with Docker / Containerization

• 3+ years of experience with Terraform

• Experience with advanced scripting using Bash / Python

• Ability to define and use CI/CD systems (such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, etc..)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Helm

• Experience with Ansible

• Experience with Atlantis

• Experience with Monitoring tools such as DataDog, Splunk, Grafana, and Prometheus

• Experience building and troubleshooting multi-cloud networks

   

#LETSGROWAt 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.