Combine two of the fastest-growing fields on the planet with a culture of performance, collaboration and opportunity and this is what you get. Leading edge technology in an industry that is improving the lives of millions. Here, innovation is not about another gadget; it is about making health care data available wherever and whenever people need it, safely and reliably. There is no room for error. If you are looking for a better place to use your passion and your desire to drive change, this is the place to be. It's an opportunity to do your life's best work.(sm)

The DevOps Engineer provides day-to-day support of production and non-production environments, including maintaining stable environment configurations to support project development efforts and ensuring that environment capabilities meet project demands. Skilled with advanced troubleshooting, escalation, and driving service restoration activities helping ensure all duties are completed in a consistent and timely manner.

You’ll enjoy the flexibility to telecommute* from anywhere within United States as you take on some tough challenges.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Adapts existing methods and procedures to create possible alternative solutions to moderately complex problems
• Understands the strategic direction set by senior management as it relates to team goals
• Uses considerable judgment to determine solution and seeks guidance on complex problems
• Primary upward interaction is with direct supervisor
• May interact with peers and/or management levels at a client and / or within Optum / UHC
• Determines methods and procedures on new assignments with guidance
• Crafting DevOps solutions that leverage AWS, Azure and internal products / service capabilities to meet critical requirements
• Creating multi region high availability systems
• Treating infrastructure as code and making it scalable
• Creating easy and simple to maintain infrastructure
• Working with client IT Security team to make sure all standards and guidelines are being followed. Support security audit and review functions
• Monitor performance and ensure system availability and reliability
• Automating CI/CD pipeline with high availability

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 as a DevOps Engineer
• 3+ years of AWS experience
• 2+years of Azure experience
• Experience with CI / CD, Automating pipelines with scripting (Jenkins, shell / python, etc.)
• Experience deploying, configuring, and monitoring of physical, virtual, and hybrid cloud environments
• Experience administering Amazon Web Services (AWS) environments, ECS, Load Balancers, security groups, VPCs, ingress / egress rules, etc.
• Experience in creating sustainable cloud infrastructure
• Experience with Linux System Administration (Red Hat or similar)
• Experience with developing app management tools and monitoring
• If you need to enter a work site for any reason, you will be required to screen for symptoms using the ProtectWell mobile app, Interactive Voice Response (i.e., entering your symptoms via phone system) or similar UnitedHealth Group-approved symptom screener. When in a UnitedHealth Group building, employees are required to wear a mask in common areas. In addition, employees must comply with any state and local masking orders

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with maintaining infrastructure as code with tools like cloud formation, terraform, etc.
• Experience with System Health Monitoring (Cloud Watch, Splunk, NewRelic, etc.)
• Experience with security patching
• Experience with container technology (Docker and / or Kubernetes)

The government services support team at Optum has earned the trust of organizations that our entire country relies on; from the Department of Defense and Veteran’s Administration to the teams at Health & Human Services and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. We’re repaying that trust with hard work, new ideas and a commitment to finding better solutions every day. Join us and help create ways for our government services agencies to be more efficient and effective. This will be the next huge step in your life's best work.(sm)

Careers with Optum. Here's the idea. We built an entire organization around one giant objective; make health care work better for everyone. So when it comes to how we use the world's large accumulation of health-related information, or guide health and lifestyle choices or manage pharmacy benefits for millions, our first goal is to leap beyond the status quo and uncover new ways to serve. Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, brings together some of the greatest minds and most advanced ideas on where health care has to go in order to reach its fullest potential. For you, that means working on high performance teams against sophisticated challenges that matter. Optum, incredible ideas in one incredible company and a singular opportunity to do your life's best work.(sm)

Colorado Residents Only: The salary range for Colorado residents is $79,700 to $142,600. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, certifications, etc. As of the date of this posting, In addition to your salary,  UHG offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: Health, dental, and vision plans; wellness program; flexible spending accounts; paid parking or public transportation costs; 401(k) retirement plan; employee stock purchase plan; life insurance, short-term disability insurance, and long-term disability insurance; business travel accident insurance; Employee Assistance Program; PTO; and employee-paid critical illness and accident insurance.

*All Telecommuters will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy

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.

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