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This opportunity is with one of our most exciting business areas: Optum - a growing part of our family of co as members of the Operations team, DevOps Engineers work closely with development, test, analysis and project management team members to understand the requirements that drive the design of quality technical solutions. The function of the DevOps team is to champion the collaboration and communication between development, test, and IT operations; to establish a culture where building, testing, and releasing software happens rapidly and frequently with minimal re-work; and to provision an accelerated evolution of the application, which is process improvement driven and utilizes metrics to increase efficiency of the software development lifecycle.
DevOps team members follow Agile/Lean development process and are involved in the full lifecycle of an application. They are principally responsible for the design and implementation of the continuous delivery pipeline, including continuous integration, continuous delivery and automated environment provisioning. The DevOps team is also responsible for developing the DevOps toolchain, working with a wide variety of open-source technologies and tools.
Other responsibilities include working within the project team to gather architecturally significant requirements, prototype architecture, implement and update solutions, aid in building and executing test plans, perform technical peer reviews, manage operations as well as production support.
DevOps Engineers must be able to adjust to constant business change; common types of changes include new requirements, evolving goals and strategies, and emerging technologies. DevOps Engineers require the ability to interact, develop, engineer, and communicate collaboratively at the highest technical levels within the ADO and all levels of the integrated project team.
You'll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.
Primary Responsibilities:

• Mentor DevOps engineering team members
• Effectively collaborate and maintain open communication, reaching across functional borders within the project team
• Ability to master a multitude of open-source platforms and cloud technologies, including containers (Docker, etc.)
• Establish and maintain containerization and change management infrastructure
• Solid background in NIX OS scripting and ability to adopt new scripting languages
• Perform platform design and implementation activities to support current and future application development, services-oriented integration and technical and network engineering projects
• Experience with environment provisioning and operations management
• Familiarity and comfort with frequent, continuous testing
• Advanced knowledge of continuous integration and continuous delivery/deployment concepts (Jenkins)
• Proven data management experience and ability
• Maintain performance metrics and monitoring for microservices architecture and operations environment
• Demonstrate DevOps concepts to customers and IPT members
• Review engineering designs to make sure that the designs meet the contractual requirements
• Advocate for customers to ensure that proposals meet requirements from operational, functional, and financial perspectives
• Provide customer communications to manage expectations and schedule coordination
• Troubleshoot build failures, environment issues and technical blockers with appropriate team members
• Define and maintain Configuration Management (CM) procedures and monitor adherence of CM procedures.
• All other duties as assigned or directed

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:

• 6+ years of application development/maintenance and/or application administration
• 2+ years of experience maintaining the AWS infrastructure
• 2+ years of experience with DevOps tools such as Jenkins, Terraform, Cloud formation, Ansible
• 2+ years of experience with supporting applications on AWS
• Experience working on an Agile project
• Experience working on large projects and interacting with several teams within the project
• Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services and or Federal experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree
• AWS certification
• Java experience
• Experience with containerization Red Hat Open shift platform

Careers at OptumCare. We're on a mission to change the face of health care. As the largest health and wellness business in the US, we help 58 million people navigate the health care system, finance their health care needs and achieve their health and well-being goals. Fortunately, we have a team of the best and brightest minds on the planet to make it happen. Together we're creating the most innovative ideas and comprehensive strategies to help heal the health care system and create a brighter future for us all. Join us and learn why there is no better place to do your life's best work.(sm)
OptumCare is committed to creating an environment where physicians focus on what they do best: care for their patients. To do so, OptumCare provides administrative and business support services to both owned and affiliated medical practices which are part of OptumCare. Each medical practice part and their physician employees have complete authority with regards to all medical decision-making and patient care. OptumCare's support services do not interfere with or control the practice of medicine by the medical practices or any of their physicians.
*All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy
California, Colorado, Connecticut, Nevada, New York, Rhode Island, or Washington Residents Only: The salary range for California, Colorado, Connecticut, Nevada, New York, Rhode Island or Washington residents is $85,000 to $167,300. 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: OptumCare is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employers 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.
OptumCare is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment