Senior I O Engineering Consultant - VMware Aria/vRealize & Automation Engineer

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.

The Senior VMware Aria/vRealize & Automation Engineer is responsible for the maintenance, optimization, and enhancement of the VMware Aria/vRealize Suite, which is leveraged for private and hybrid cloud automation. As a vital member of the vRealize Services Team, the role involves continuous monitoring, lifecycle management, upgrades, and the development of automation workflows using vRO, PowerShell, and REST APIs. The engineer will also oversee operational excellence for VMware vRealize/Aria application stacks and support key components including VMware Aria Automation, Aria Automation Orchestration, Aria Operations, Aria Operations for Networks, Aria Operations for Logs, ensuring robust automation, monitoring, logging, and network insights across VMware environments. Primary duties include managing SNOW tickets, assigned projects, along with maintaining and upgrading the Aria/vRealize stack.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Manage SNOW tickets
• Maintain and upgrade vRealize stack
• Build automation workflows with vRO, PowerShell, REST APIs
• Collaborate across infra and dev teams
• Create dashboards, logs, network queries
• 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:

• BS's degree in Computer Science, IT, or related discipline or 10+ years of experience in IT related work functions
• Intermediate to high knowledge of VMware vCenter, including routine administration and troubleshooting
• Infra-as-code understanding
• Intermediate to high proficiency with Windows and/or Linux operating systems, including system administration fundamentals
• Proven solid virtualization and cloud background
• Proven PowerShell/Python/JavaScript/REST API skills
• Proven Networking fundamentals (LAN/WAN, routing, firewall basics)  
• Proven solid communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively across teams
• Proven excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Proven exceptional organizational skills, with strong attention to detail
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously and work with a sense of urgency in a fast-paced environment

Preferred Qualifications:

• 6+ years of experience configuring, managing, and maintaining hardware and/or application monitoring and alerting systems and/or 4+ years of experience with at least one component of the VMware Aria/vRealize application stack, such as:
  • Aria/vRealize Automation  
  • Aria/vRealize Orchestrator  
  • Aria/vRealize Operations  
  • Aria/vRealize Log Insight
  • Aria/vRealize Network Insight
• 4+ years of experience coding any of the following PowerShell, Python, Java, JavaScript
• Solid understanding of VMware infrastructure components and associated product suites
• Solid understanding of REST API fundamentals
• CI/CD tools and ServiceNow integrations

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.