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.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Lead DevOps adoption across the team, driving modern engineering practices including CI/CD, infrastructure as code, cloud automation, and site reliability engineering (SRE)
- Design, build, deploy, operate, and continuously improve highly available, scalable, and secure cloud-based platforms and services
- Architect and maintain CI/CD pipelines to enable reliable, automated builds, testing, and deployments across multiple environments
- Build and manage cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation), ensuring consistency and repeatability
- Provide technical leadership for cloud operations, containerization, orchestration, and platform engineering (Docker, Kubernetes, EKS)
- Partner with product management, architects, and engineering teams to support application modernization, microservices, and cloud-native solutions
- Drive alignment with enterprise DevOps, cloud, and security strategies while ensuring compliance with regulatory and operational standards
- Ensure operational excellence through solid practices in monitoring, logging, alerting, incident management, and root-cause analysis
- Production stability, performance, cost optimization, and reliability of platforms and services
- Mentor and coach engineers on DevOps tools, cloud best practices, automation, and operational excellence
- Collaborate with security teams to embed DevSecOps practices including vulnerability management, secrets management, and access controls
- Exercise independent judgment to prioritize, plan, and manage DevOps initiatives, platform roadmaps, and technical debt reduction
- 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:
- Graduation
- 7+ years of software engineering, systems engineering, or DevOps experience
- 6+ years of hands-on experience with DevOps practices including CI/CD pipelines, automation, and cloud infrastructure
- 6+ years of experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar)
- 6+ years of experience supporting web applications and APIs in production environments
- Experience with observability tools (CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or similar)
- Solid experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred), including compute, networking, storage, and managed services
- Solid knowledge of security, IAM, secrets management, logging, monitoring, performance tuning, disaster recovery, and high availability architectures
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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Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, 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. At Optum, we support your well-being with an understanding team, extensive benefits and rewarding opportunities. By joining us, you’ll have the resources to drive system transformation while we help you take care of your future. We recognize the power of connection to drive change, improve efficiency and make a difference in health care. Join a team where your skills and ideas can make an impact and where collaboration is key to creating technology that produces healthier outcomes.
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Hybrid Workspace
Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
Optum has three workplace models that balance the needs of the business and the responsibilities of each role. These models, core on‑site (5 days/week), hybrid (4 days/week) and telecommute or fully remote, vary by country, role and location.
