The Role
Own reliability, security, scalability, and production operations for an agentic AI system on GCP. Manage Kubernetes and Cloud Run workloads, observability, SLOs, CI/CD, Terraform, identity, secrets, and supply-chain security. Build AI agents for incident triage and self-healing, address LLM security risks, and lead on-call incident response and postmortems.
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Requisition Number: 2394629
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.
We're looking for a Senior Agentic AI SRE to own the reliability, security and scalability of our agentic AI system on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The role covers containers, identity and single sign-on (SSO), observability, CI/CD automation and production incident response. You'll also build AI agents that automate operations work.
Primary Responsibilities:
Required Qualifications:
Preferred Qualifications:
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.
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.
We're looking for a Senior Agentic AI SRE to own the reliability, security and scalability of our agentic AI system on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The role covers containers, identity and single sign-on (SSO), observability, CI/CD automation and production incident response. You'll also build AI agents that automate operations work.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Own the availability, performance and capacity of the agentic AI system on GCP, and define and track SLOs and error budgets
- Run containerized workloads on Kubernetes (GKE and Cloud Run), including scaling, resilience and cost optimization
- Build end-to-end observability (metrics, logs, traces, alerts), including AI-specific signals: token usage, model latency and agent failure rates
- Automate CI/CD pipelines and build management, including versioning, artifact management, safe rollouts and infrastructure as code (Terraform)
- Implement SSO (OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML), IAM, secrets management and container supply-chain security
- Address AI security risks such as prompt injection, data leakage and unsafe agent actions
- Build AI agents that automate incident triage, build failure analysis, runbooks and self-healing
- Take part in on-call and the production war room, lead incident response and run blameless postmortems
- Comply with all applicable Company policies, procedures, and business directives, changes including those relating to work location, team assignments, work schedules, and flexible work arrangements
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- 8+ years in SRE, DevOps or platform engineering, with 3+ years running production cloud systems
- Hands-on SSO and identity experience: OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, Entra ID or Okta
- Solid hands-on GCP experience: GKE, Cloud Run, IAM, networking and Cloud Operations Suite
- Proven production incident and war room experience
- Knowledge of CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, Cloud Build, Jenkins or Argo CD) and Terraform
- Knowledge of observability tools such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Cloud Monitoring or Splunk
- Working knowledge of LLM and agentic systems, such as Vertex AI/Gemini, RAG and agent frameworks
- Expertise with Docker and Kubernetes
- Solid Python and Bash skills
Preferred Qualifications:
- GCP or Kubernetes certifications: Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer, CKA or CKS
- Experience building AI agents for AIOps or ChatOps automation
- Experience with Model Context Protocol (MCP) or multi-agent orchestration
- Healthcare or other regulated-industry experience, including HIPAA
- Knowledge of LLM observability and evaluation tools such as LangSmith, Langfuse or Arize
- Knowledge of the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications
- Knowledge of policy as code (OPA) and supply-chain security (Binary Authorization, Sigstore)
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.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- 8+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or platform engineering
- 3+ years running production cloud systems
- Hands-on experience with OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, Entra ID, or Okta
- Hands-on GCP experience with GKE, Cloud Run, IAM, networking, and Cloud Operations Suite
- Production incident response and war room experience
- Knowledge of CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, Cloud Build, Jenkins, or Argo CD
- Knowledge of Terraform
- Knowledge of observability tools such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Cloud Monitoring, or Splunk
- Working knowledge of LLM and agentic systems, including Vertex AI/Gemini, RAG, or agent frameworks
- Expertise with Docker and Kubernetes
- Solid Python and Bash skills
- GCP or Kubernetes certifications, such as Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer, CKA, or CKS
- Experience building AI agents for AIOps or ChatOps automation
- Experience with Model Context Protocol or multi-agent orchestration
- Healthcare or regulated-industry experience, including HIPAA
- Knowledge of LLM observability and evaluation tools such as LangSmith, Langfuse, or Arize
- Knowledge of the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications
- Knowledge of policy as code and supply-chain security, including OPA, Binary Authorization, or Sigstore
Optum Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off is often regarded as generous, with meaningful accrual and flexibility to use it. While practices can vary by team, the overall time-off offering stands out as a relative strength.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) plan with employer matching is available and generally well-regarded for supporting long-term savings. It remains valuable, though candidates should verify the current match formula.
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Parental & Family Support — Programs such as parental leave, family medical leave, and adoption assistance are included as notable elements of the total rewards package. These resources can meaningfully support work-life balance when applicable to the role and location.
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The Company
What We Do
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 Offices
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.
Typical time on-site:
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