Lead platform engineering efforts to build, deploy, operate, and automate multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters on-prem and in public clouds. Apply SRE and DevOps practices, automate infrastructure and application lifecycle with Terraform/GitOps, troubleshoot/scale running systems, support on-call and incident response, and build automation (including AI-driven agents) to improve reliability and operations.
Requisition Number: 2372425
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:
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.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Be a team player
- Understand DevOps model (end to end) & experience in automating the software dev/test/deployment lifecycle with continuous integration and continuous deployment
- Working with the rest of the team to deploy, maintain, and run a highly available, multi-tenant distributed system
- Automating both the infrastructure creation and the application deployment to that environment
- Supporting Linux systems internals and administration
- Build & maintain different flavors of Kubernetes clusters on-prem & public cloud
- Support application teams to address the issues faced
- Develop agents are automate the day to day work by adopting AI capabilities
- 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:
- Solid hands-on experience with DevOps tool chains and practices
- Experience in supporting Oncall and addressing war rooms, P1 & P2 tickets
- Experience with scaling, monitoring, and troubleshooting actively running systems
- Working experience on any public cloud (Azure, AWS or GCP)
- Working experience with using AI tools
- Working experience with Linux Platforms
- Working experience on applying SRE concepts
- Automation working experience
- Development experience with the tools Terraform, GoLang, GitOps
- Working knowledge of managing different flavors of Kubernetes clusters on-prem & Public Clouds (AWS, AZURE & GCP)
- Knowledge of Kubernetes Administration
- On-prem Kubernetes Cluster
- AKS or EKS
- Knowledge of Life cycle management of Linux servers which includes Server provisioning, Build, Kick start, decommission and configuring servers using Configuration management tools like (ansible / Chef /Terraform)
- Expert in working with Docker and Kubernetes
- Expert in tools such as Monit, ELK, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana etc.
- Expert in scripting tools like shell & Python
- Expertise in leveraging Open Source Software technologies to solve business problems
- Skills to recommend solutions to host an application / designing the application hosting strategy
- Development skill to auto heal of system alerts
- Proven ability to address different customer on email/ chatops and one on one meetings/calls with customers
- Demonstrated solid cross-organizational collaboration skills
Preferred Qualifications:
- Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience
- Development experience on python or Go Lang
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.
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