Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Remote
Role Summary
Join Optum as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with remote work flexibility available across the U.S., focusing on innovative healthcare technology solutions.
Key Responsibilities
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.
- Build, operate and support IaaS and PaaS infrastructure in Azure and AWS commercial and government clouds
- Work closely with dev teams to identify and measure SLOs, SLAs and SLIs
- Act a solid 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
Minimum Requirements
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.
- 6+ years of experience working in a Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud Engineering, or DevOps 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
- Experience working with RESTful services
- Some experience with monitoring tools (Azure Monitor, Splunk, Dynatrace, Graphana, Prometheus)
- Knowledge of Encryption, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), understanding of OWASP
- Expert knowledge of at least one major cloud service provider (Azure preferred, AWS acceptable)
- Expert knowledge and hands on production experience in Kubernetes (bare metal or managed) cluster setup and management
- Understanding of identity and access management (IAM)
- Familiarity with IDEs and source control tools such as Visual Studio Code, GitHub, GitLab
- Solid awareness of networking and internet protocols
- Ability to participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation following documented procedures and escalation paths
- United States Citizenship
- If you are offered this position, you will be required to provide extensive personal information to obtain and maintain a suitability or determination of eligibility for a Confidential/Secret or Top Secret security clearance as a condition of your employment
- All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy
Application Information
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.*
- OptumCare 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.*
- OptumCare is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.*
Eligibility Criteria
Eligibility details are not specified; applicants may need to verify their ability to work in the U.S.
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