Be an Early Applicant
The Role
Designs, administers, and optimizes enterprise backup, recovery, and cyber resilience solutions across on-premises, hybrid-cloud, and public-cloud environments. Leads backup and disaster recovery initiatives, ensures RPO/RTO compliance, develops Terraform-based infrastructure automation, and scripts operational processes using Python, PowerShell, and Bash. Implements monitoring, observability, immutable backups, cyber vaults, isolated recovery environments, and air-gapped recovery capabilities. Troubleshoots complex infrastructure issues, supports audits and compliance, and drives technical roadmaps and operational excellence.
Summary Generated by Built In
Requisition Number: 2381906
Position Summary
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Infrastructure Engineer with expertise in enterprise backup, cloud data protection, and infrastructure automation. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with NetBackup, Cohesity, Commvault, Veeam, and cloud-native backup solutions across Azure, AWS, and GCP environments. This role will drive backup modernization, cyber resilience, cloud adoption, and automation initiatives using Terraform, GitHub, and scripting technologies.
Key Responsibilities
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.
Position Summary
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Infrastructure Engineer with expertise in enterprise backup, cloud data protection, and infrastructure automation. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with NetBackup, Cohesity, Commvault, Veeam, and cloud-native backup solutions across Azure, AWS, and GCP environments. This role will drive backup modernization, cyber resilience, cloud adoption, and automation initiatives using Terraform, GitHub, and scripting technologies.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and support enterprise backup and recovery solutions across on-premises, hybrid-cloud, and multi-cloud environments.
- Administer and optimize backup platforms including NetBackup, Cohesity, Commvault, and Veeam.
- Implement and support Azure Backup, AWS Backup, GCP Backup & DR, and other cloud-native data protection services.
- Develop Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform, GitHub, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Automate operational tasks, reporting, monitoring, and platform management using Python, PowerShell, or Shell scripting.
- Lead backup modernization, cyber recovery, disaster recovery, and ransomware protection initiatives.
- Design and support immutable storage, cyber vaults, air-gapped recovery, and isolated recovery environments (IRE).
- Collaborate with cloud, infrastructure, security, application, and architecture teams to ensure backup compliance and recoverability.
- 8+ years of experience in Infrastructure Engineering, Backup Administration, or Data Protection.
- Strong hands-on expertise with NetBackup, Cohesity, Commvault, Veeam, or other enterprise backup platforms.
- Experience implementing and managing backup solutions across Azure, AWS, and GCP.
- Knowledge of cloud-native backup services and hybrid-cloud data protection architectures.
- Strong experience with Terraform, GitHub, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), and automation frameworks.
- Proficiency in Python, PowerShell, Bash, or similar scripting technologies.
- Experience with cyber resilience, ransomware recovery, immutable backups, and disaster recovery planning.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes/OpenShift data protection and enterprise database backup technologies.
- Strong troubleshooting, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related field.
- Certifications in NetBackup, Cohesity, Commvault, Veeam, Azure, AWS, GCP, Terraform, or Kubernetes.
- Experience leading enterprise-scale backup transformation and cloud migration initiatives.
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, information technology, engineering, or a related discipline
- 9+ years of infrastructure engineering, operations, or platform administration experience
- 3+ years of hands-on experience administering and supporting Cohesity NetBackup
- Experience with infrastructure automation, Terraform, scripting, and enterprise monitoring solutions
- Experience with multiple enterprise backup and recovery platforms
- Experience designing and supporting cloud-native and hybrid-cloud data protection solutions across Azure, AWS, and/or GCP
- Experience protecting enterprise applications and databases including Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SAP HANA, and MongoDB
- Experience implementing monitoring, observability, and operational reporting solutions
- Experience supporting highly regulated environments involving security, compliance, governance, and audit readiness
- Solid hands-on experience administering and supporting Cohesity NetBackup in large enterprise environments
- Hands-on scripting and automation experience using Python, PowerShell, Bash, or similar technologies
- Solid expertise in Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code methodologies and modern automation practices
- Understanding of cyber resilience technologies including immutable storage, ransomware recovery, cyber vaults, isolated recovery environments, and air-gapped recovery architectures
- Familiarity with Kubernetes and OpenShift, including container and persistent-volume data protection strategies
- Working knowledge of enterprise storage, networking, virtualization, and infrastructure platforms
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to lead technical initiatives and drive operational excellence in complex enterprise environments
- Backup, cloud, security, or infrastructure certifications
Optum Compensation & Benefits Highlights
-
Leave & Time Off Breadth — PTO is generally described as decent or good, and many note it as a strong part of the package. Actual ability to take time off can depend on workload and team coverage.
-
Retirement Support — Offerings include a 401(k) with employer match and access to an employee stock purchase plan, which are highlighted as meaningful components of total rewards. These programs are consistently referenced among core benefits.
-
Parental & Family Support — Parental and caregiver leave, along with adoption assistance, are publicly highlighted and viewed as notable elements of the package. Availability can be role-specific, but these supports contribute to overall breadth where offered.
Optum Insights
Am I A Good Fit?
Get Personalized Job Insights.
Our AI-powered fit analysis compares your resume with a job listing so you know if your skills & experience align.
Success! Refresh the page to see how your skills align with this role.
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.
Gallery
.jpg)
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:
Not Specified
