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 diversity and inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together. 

Enterprise Technology Infrastructure, Platforms & Services (ETIPS) delivers services and operational support to meet business integration objectives. Architecture leadership to provide scalable, secure, and highly available infrastructure solutions to meet care delivery business needs and enable future business growth.

As an enterprise enabling team, we will partner with CIOs and their Lines of Business to build faster, better and cost-effective solutions powered by elastic, resilient and secure infrastructure, services and platforms by:

• Running 75% of our business in the public cloud
• Transforming our customer and advocate experience with a modern Omni Platform
• Delivering Best-In-Class Digital Workplace Experience
• Accelerating NIEs Integration with Excellence
• Building high performing, engaged teams

Our culture of integrity, diversity and inclusion is the foundation of all we do. Our platforms and services empower speed to market to meet consumer needs while improving the overall health care experience. We strive to provide an exceptional experience to those with whom we work and serve.

Optum’s Government Cloud engineering team, develops services, controls, and reusable patterns, that enable Optum product teams to deliver value safely, quickly, and sustainably in the public cloud. This critical work ultimately helps people live healthier lives and makes the health system work better for everyone.

In this position, you will work with a growing team to create business value while collaborating with product owners in an iterative agile process. Your work will be leveraged by thousands of Optum and UnitedHealth Group engineers in their journey towards public cloud maturity.

You’ll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Building and operating secure cloud platform capabilities that meet business requirements
• Innovate to improve efficiency, reduce technical drag, and create usable app patterns
• Practice SRE principles, to eliminate repetitive tasks, monitor performance, simplify work practices, define outcomes and metrics, and assure operational quality
• Manage security controls at the platform layer to enable the organization to operate securely, efficiently, and within policy
• Assist multiple partner teams to understand and apply information security guidance and standards with the goal of mitigating information security risks

You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications: 

• 4 years of experience as software development engineer or equivalent hands-on experience producing code for production systems
• 2 years of experience in Public Cloud such as AWS, Azure, GCP beyond basic IaaS functionality
• 2 of years of experience with the software build cycle
• 1 years of experience in automation of CI/CD using GitHub actions or similar and source control system such as Git
• 1 years of engineering experience in building infrastructure using code and repeatable designs

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with serverless services, network setup, policy management, and vulnerability remediation in the cloud
• Experience working on highly regulated environments i.e.: NIST, HiTrust, FedRAMP, etc.
• Evidence based approach to making decisions and solving problems
• Algorithms, data structures, OO design, and other CSCI concepts experience
• API design and lifecycle management (REST, etc.) experience
• Data storage, caching, and optimization (NoSQL databases, Redis, PostgreSQL, etc.) experience
• Inter-service messaging and streams discovery (SQS, Pub/Sub Kafka, etc.) experience
• Experience with instrumentation, logging, and tracing (Prometheus, CloudWatch, Stack Driver, Azure Monitor etc.)

*All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy.

California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, or Washington Residents Only: The salary range for this role is $88,000 to $173,200 annually. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. UnitedHealth Group complies with all minimum wage laws as applicable. In addition to your salary, UnitedHealth Group offers benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with UnitedHealth Group, you’ll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives. Application Deadline: This will be posted for a minimum of 2 business days or until a sufficient candidate pool has been collected. Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants. 

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. Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. UnitedHealth Group is a drug - free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.