Job Description

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.The Cloud Security Engineer will lead the design, deployment, and operationalization of Azure, AWS, and GCP security posture of UnitedHealth Group, with a focus on enabling effective and efficient incident response.This role will be a primary contributor to the Cloud Alignment Team that governs enterprise-wide cloud security strategy, including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. The position will report to the Director of the Cloud Security Engineering Team within the Security Solutions, Engineering and Assurance group of Enterprise Information Security.The Cloud Security Engineer will have solid interpersonal skills, be a self-starter, and have a desire to maintain enterprise-wide visibility to initiatives related to cloud-based technologies and services. The Cloud Security Engineer is an individual contributor role with deep expertise in Cloud Security and Cloud Incident Response.Primary Responsibilities:

• Working with internal cyber defense, security engineering teams, and business customers to produce meaningful cybersecurity defenses

Interact with internal security partners and workload owners to enhance cloud security capabilities and help develop custom solutions to security gaps * Identify recurring problems and automated solutions to help scale and expand

• Represent cloud security engineering in enterprise-wide leadership groups focused on cloud initiatives
• Work effectively across security, engineering, and architecture functions within the organization to affect change and enhance security strategies and posture
• Design and develop strategies for security logging and monitoring that solve security and engineering customers\' needs
• Identify methods to implement or modify security solutions to better protect the enterprise from cyber threats
• Proactively explore emerging technologies and their potential impact on security teams, from the perspective of securing and protecting those technologies
• Recommend and coordinate security strategies across teams via coordination with senior leadership
• 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:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or Engineering field
• 8 years experience in cybersecurity defense and security operations
• 5 years experience network engineering and architecture or with threats and vulnerability testing, risk assessments, and security compliance
• 4 years experience with threats and vulnerability testing, risk assessments, or security compliance
• 2 years experience in public cloud cybersecurity engineering and architecture
• Experience working with red teams, pen testing, or application security teams
• Expert knowledge in information technology, including cloud service providers, networking, architecture, protocols, file systems and operating systems
• Demonstrated experience of actions put in place based on presentation to business and technology leaders
• Demonstrated experience leading projects and teams focused on innovations and development of security solutions
• Ability to create innovative solutions based on best practices with or without reliance on commercial service providers or vendors

Preferred Qualifications:

• 10 years experience in cybersecurity defense and security operations
• 2 years experience implementing security solutions within Azure, Amazon Web Services, or Google Cloud Platform
• Experience working with the cybersecurity challenges of a global business leader
• Experience with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
• Expert knowledge in cloud technology, including security architecture, DevOps practices, or serverless infrastructure

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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