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. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as we help advance health equity on a global scale. Here, you will find talented peers, comprehensive benefits, a culture guided by diversity and inclusion, career growth opportunities and your life's best work.(sm)
As part of our Data Platform engineering team, the Site Reliability Engineer plays a significant role in ensuring that the performance and stability of our software meet the needs of our business. This engineer will be hands on, gathering metrics, performing analysis, and developing application code, configurations, and process automation for cloud-based systems using a variety of tools and languages. This engineer will also be responsible for documenting processes and mentoring other engineers.
You'll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely* Ideal candidates can work East Coast or Central time zone to attend early morning meetings. (*8-5 Minnesota hours are standard)
You'll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.
Required Qualifications:

• Education - BA/BS degree (*or 10+ years of related corporate IT work experience)
• 8+ years of modern software engineering (development) experience at the enterprise level
• 4+ years of writing and debugging code in at least one of the following languages:
  • Java
  • Golang
  • Python
  • ReactJS
  • JavaScript
• 2+ years working hands-on with Docker and/or Kubernetes
• 1+ years of experience running applications on a public cloud
• 1+ years of gathering performance and stability metrics and using those metrics as a baseline for performance and stability tuning
• 1+ years of hands on experience developing CICD pipelines for application build and deployment

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working with Google Cloud Platform
• Experience working with Google Kubernetes Engine
• Experience working with GitHub Actions for creating application pipelines
• Experience working with Prometheus and Grafana
• Experience working with Splunk
• Experience working with Datahub
• Experience working with MySQL
• Experience working with Elastic Search
• Experience with capacity planning
• Experience designing systems for fault tolerance, high availability, and disaster recovery
• Experience writing and debugging code in the following languages: Java, Golang, Python, ReactJS, and JavaScript
• Experience mentoring, leading, and delegating work to junior engineers

Technology Careers with Optum. Information and technology have amazing power to transform the health care industry and improve people's lives. This is where it's happening. This is where you'll help solve the problems that have never been solved. We're freeing information so it can be used safely and securely wherever it's needed. We're creating the very best ideas that can most easily be put into action to help our clients improve the quality of care and lower costs for millions. This is where the best and the brightest work together to make positive change a reality. This is the place to do your life's best work.(sm)
Connecticut Residents Only: The salary range for Connecticut residents is $101,200 to $184,000. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, UnitedHealth Group offers benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with UnitedHealth Group, you'll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives.
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.
Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.
UnitedHealth Group is a drug - free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.