Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Remote

Our Optum Serve IT  team  develops  cutting-edge solutions that help people live healthier lives and help make the health system work better for everyone. From advanced data analytics and AI to cybersecurity, we use innovative approaches to solve some of health care’s most complex challenges.  To support this mission, OSIT has initiated a multi‑year modernization program aimed at updating and enhancing enterprise technology systems in accordance with modern design standards. Your contributions here have the potential to change lives. Ready to build the next breakthrough? Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together. 

The Site Reliability Engineer will architect, develop, and maintain Optum Serve’s cloud environment in both the commercial and government cloud. The role will work closely with software engineers, architects, and DevOps engineers to architect and maintain a secure, resilient and high performance cloud infrastructure.  

You’ll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges. For all hires in the Minneapolis or Washington, D.C. area, you will be required to work in the office a minimum of four days per week.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Build, maintain, and operate IaaS and PaaS infrastructure in Azure commercial and government clouds 
• Work closely with dev teams to identify and measure SLOs, SLAs and SLIs  
• Act a strong contributor to development of platform services including architecture, provisioning, configuration, deployment, and support  
• Perform integrations with central logging, metrics dashboards, instrumentation, incident monitoring and management  
• Build/integrate/administer systems and tools that enable engineering teams to observe their applications in production with autonomy (Dashboards, APMs)
• Support software and/or cloud-infrastructure in an on-call rotation basis  
• Assist with identification and remediation of technical problems at the root cause by continuously implementing automation, self-healing, and real-time monitoring to production systems  
• Maintain and improve operational tooling, frameworks
• Build frameworks that test the performance and resiliency of our platform services/tools  
• Automate alerts for metrics on performance, cost, vulnerabilities, risk, compliance violations  
• Improve processes and champion automation of any manual items around support

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:

• 6+ years of experience working within a cloud engineer/SRE role  
• Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools like Terraform, Pulumi
• Experience with Kubernetes deployment tools like Helm, ArgoCD, Flux
• Experience supporting infrastructure in production cloud environments
• Some experience with monitoring tools (Azure Monitor, Splunk, Dynatrace, Graphana, Prometheus)
• Experience working with RESTful services  
• Expert knowledge of a cloud service provider  
• Expert knowledge and hands on production experience in Kubernetes (bare metal or managed) cluster setup and management
• Knowledge of Encryption, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), understanding of OWASP  
• Understanding of identity and access management (IAM)  
• Familiarity with IDEs and Source Control tools like Visual Studio Code and Git
• Proven solid awareness of networking and internet protocols
• Available and willing to be 24/7 on-call rotation
• United States citizenship is required for this position

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Math, Physics  
• Master’s Degree with coursework focused on advanced algorithms, mathematics in computing, data structures or related field  
• Expert knowledge of Azure 
• Demonstrate passion about infrastructure automation  
• Proven ability to prioritize work in a fast-paced environment

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

Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, we offer 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 us, you’ll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives. The salary for this role will range from $91,700 to $163,700 annually based on full-time employment. We comply with all minimum wage laws as applicable.

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.

UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer under applicable law and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug - free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.