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:
- Leverage Enterprise AI persona as 'AI Builder' with approved AI tools to enhance productivity, reduce toil by streamlining workflows and automating repetitive tasks. Expertise with Co-pilot, GitHub Co-pilot, Power automate AI tools to automate the workflows
- Defining and setting up best industry alert and monitoring practices across line of business and design/architect efficient monitoring dashboards on Splunk/Dynatrace /Grafana common for all applications/products across line of business
- Participating in 5-9 program and other peak season readiness initiatives and collaboration with application teams evaluating applications from resiliency, availability, and reliability perspective
- Act as a gatekeeper for changes rolling into production
- Embrace continuous learning of engineering practices to ensure industry best practices and technology adoption, including DevOps, Cloud and Agile thinking
- Tech debt reduction/Tech transformation including opensource/inner source adoption, Cloud adoption, HCP assessment and adoption
- Improve processes/runbooks and lead automation efforts of any manual items around support cutting down manual toil
- Participate in on-call rotation
- Improve operational tooling, frameworks, perform chaos engineering activities
- Respond to platform emergencies, alerts, and escalations from Customer Support
- 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:
- Must have fulltime graduation degree
- 10+ years of experience in IT industry across entire SDLC
- 5+ years of experience in integrating monitoring and alerting into cloud software solutions
- 3+ years of coding experience with one or more of the follow languages Java, C#, C/C++, Go, Python, Perl, PowerShell
or JavaScript with a willingness and ability to learn new ones - 3+ years of experience in Splunk / Dynatrace / DataDog/Grafana/ Telemetry or similar for monitoring tools
- 2+ years of experience building and programmatically consuming REST APIs
- ServiceNow experience
- Work experience as a Site Reliability Engineer or similar role
- Experience with any database
- Experience in operations support for any application
- Experience with programmatic interaction with a relational database SQL Server/MySQL/PostgreSQL
- Experience planning and supporting 99.999% availability against critical applications in production
- Knowledge of any scripting or programming language
- Solid understanding of engineering fundamentals: unit testing, performance testing, code reviews, telemetry, agile and DevOps
- Solid understanding of: continuous integration / continuous delivery tools, serverless architecture, containerization, public / private cloud, application observability and/or messaging / stream architecture
- Proven technical writing skills (creating flow diagrams, end user documentation, etc)
- Proven ability to communicate effectively to both technical and non-technical, globally distributed audiences
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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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.
