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This person would be joining the Health Care Cloud Data Platforms team to assist us building out new functionality for our various Kafka offerings on-prem and in the cloud.
Primary Responsibilities:

• Technical curiosity and an ability to troubleshoot the unknown
• Works closely with other functions to understand customer needs and to develop product roadmaps
• Works with less structured, more complex issues
• Be an active participant on the Scrum team
• Utilize solid development skills and gain an understanding of software architecture using Kafka
• Deliver on customer commitments and help them troubleshoot their platform clusters
• Help establish an enterprise wide offering of Kafka

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
Required Qualifications:

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
• 1+ years of experience in the software engineering profession
• 1+ years of experience working with Kafka
• 1+ years of experience with a public cloud platform, such as AWS, Azure or GCP
• 1+ years of experience with CICD Tooling
• 1+ years of experience with Kubernetes

Preferred Qualification:

• Full COVID-19 vaccination is an essential requirement of this role. Candidates located in states that mandate COVID-19 booster doses must also comply with those state requirements. UnitedHealth Group will adhere to all federal, state and local regulations as well as all client requirements and will obtain necessary proof of vaccination, and boosters when applicable, prior to employment to ensure compliance

To protect the health and safety of our workforce, patients and communities we serve, UnitedHealth Group and its affiliate companies require all employees to disclose COVID-19 vaccination status prior to beginning employment. In addition, some roles and locations require full COVID-19 vaccination, including boosters, as an essential job function. UnitedHealth Group adheres to all federal, state and local COVID-19 vaccination regulations as well as all client COVID-19 vaccination requirements and will obtain the necessary information from candidates prior to employment to ensure compliance. Candidates must be able to perform all essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation. Failure to meet the vaccination requirement may result in rescission of an employment offer or termination of employment
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