Senior DevOps 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.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Engineering
  • Design, implement, and manage infrastructure across Azure, AWS, and GCP
  • Build secure, scalable, and resilient cloud-native platforms
  • Drive cloud modernization, migration, and optimization initiatives
  • Establish multi-cloud governance, architecture standards, and best practices
  • Manage networking, identity, storage, compute, and security services across cloud environments
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
  • Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using:
  • Terraform
  • Bicep / ARM Templates
  • CloudFormation
  • Ansible
  • Automate provisioning, configuration management, and environment setup
  • Ensure infrastructure consistency across development, test, and production environments
• CI/CD & Release Engineering
  • Design and maintain enterprise CI/CD pipelines using:
  • Azure DevOps
  • GitHub Actions
  • Jenkins
  • GitLab CI/CD
  • Improve deployment automation and release reliability
  • Implement automated quality gates, security scans, and deployment validations
  • Support blue-green, canary, and rolling deployment strategies
• Containerization & Kubernetes
  • Build and operate container platforms using Docker and Kubernetes
  • Manage Azure AKS, AWS EKS, and/or Google GKE environments
  • Develop Helm charts and Kubernetes deployment standards
  • Optimize cluster performance, scalability, security, and availability
• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) & Operations
  • Define and implement SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets
  • Drive incident management, root cause analysis, and postmortem processes
  • Improve platform reliability, availability, and operational efficiency
  • Create automated recovery and self-healing mechanisms
• Monitoring & Observability
  • Implement enterprise observability solutions using:
  • Azure Monitor
  • Application Insights
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • Datadog
  • Splunk
  • ELK Stack
  • Build proactive alerting and monitoring dashboards
  • Continuously improve application and infrastructure visibility
• Security & Compliance
  • Embed Develops practices throughout the software delivery lifecycle
  • Integrate security scanning, vulnerability management, and policy enforcement into CI/CD pipelines
  • Manage secrets and certificates using Key Vault, Secrets Manager, or similar solutions
  • Partner with security teams to meet regulatory and compliance requirements
• Automation & Productivity
  • Develop automation solutions using Python, PowerShell, Bash, or Go
  • Eliminate manual operational tasks through orchestration and automation
  • Enable developer self-service capabilities
• Collaboration & Leadership
  • Partner with development teams to improve build, deployment, and operational practices
  • Mentor junior engineers and establish engineering best practices
  • Participate in architecture reviews and technical design discussions
  • Drive continuous improvement initiatives across engineering teams
• 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, Engineering, or related field
• 8+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, SRE, or Platform Engineering
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with public cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP)
• Experience managing Kubernetes-based platforms
• Experience implementing monitoring, logging, and observability solutions
• Experience supporting mission-critical production environments
• Deep understanding of networking, security, identity management, and cloud architecture
• Proficiency in scripting/programming (Python, PowerShell, Bash, Go)
• Proven solid expertise in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred)
• Proven solid background in CI/CD implementation and automation

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience operating in enterprise-scale multi-cloud environments
• Hands-on experience with Azure Landing Zones, AWS Organizations, or GCP resource hierarchy
• Experience with FinOps and cloud cost optimization
• Familiarity with AI/ML platform infrastructure and MLOps
• Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd)
• Experience managing large-scale Kubernetes environments

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.