Optum hiring Lead Site Reliability Engineer - Remote in Eden Prairie, MN | LinkedIn (2024)

At UnitedHealthcare, we’re simplifying the health care experience, creating healthier communities and removing barriers to quality care. The work you do here impacts the lives of millions of people for the better. Come build the health care system of tomorrow, making it more responsive, affordable and equitable. Ready to make a difference? Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.The Lead Site Reliability Engineer plays a significant role in designing, implementing, and maintaining highly available and scalable systems. This engineer drive the migration of on-premises applications to public cloud platforms, ensuring seamless transition and optimal performance. This role will also collaborate with cross-functional teams to define migration strategies, develop migration plans, and execute migrations with minimal downtime.

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

Primary Responsibilities

• Establish and enforce best practices for cloud infrastructure provisioning, configuration, monitoring, and optimization
• Design and implement automated processes for deployment, scaling, and recovery, utilizing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles
• Monitor system performance, identify bottlenecks, and implement solutions to optimize performance and reliability
• Develop and maintain documentation, runbooks, and procedures for system operations and troubleshooting
• Mentor and coach team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement

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

• 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering or related work
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with public cloud platforms, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
• 5+ years of scripting and automation using languages such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell
• 2+ years of migrating applications to public cloud environments

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of work experience using containerization technologies such as Docker and orchestration platforms like Kubernetes
• 3+ years of experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation
• 2+ years of monitoring and observability tools such as Datadog
• 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 $104,700 to $190,400 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.