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



Primary Responsibilities:


• Build and maintain Azure resources using modern Infrastructure-as-Code tooling (Terraform, Ansible)
• Build and maintain pipelines and automation through GitOps (GitHub Actions, JPAC, etc.)
• Create and own platform level services on top of Kubernetes (AKS, Azure Container Apps)
• Develop automation scripts by submitting PRs and participating in code reviews (Github)
• Build monitoring and alerting templates for various cloud metrics (Splunk, Datadog, Azure app insights)
• Participate in a shared on-call rotation
• Team player attitude and willingness to collaborate with others
• 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
• 6+ years of experience defining, designing, and implementing CI/CD systems (such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, etc.)
• 4+ years of experience with Docker / Containerization
• 3+ Experience building and troubleshooting cloud networks
• 2+ years of experience with Terraform
• Experience with Monitoring tools such as DataDog, Splunk, Grafana, and Prometheus
• Experience with advanced scripting
• Expertise in identifying and mitigating infrastructure security vulnerabilities
• Expertise in managing cost optimized infrastructure setups
• Expertise in setting monitors, triggers, alerts and managing the infra setup on highest availability and reliability standards
• Solid knowledge in Azure networking, such as configuring virtual networks, firewalls, load balancers, and VPNs


•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.•