DevOps Engineer

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:

• Develop high-quality code, software design
• Identify, prioritize and execute tasks using the agile development methodology
• Understand Product / Project / Consumer priorities and deliver features within time and budget
• Understand and implement CI/CD deployment pipelines
• Explore new technologies and perform POC to propose solutions to the business problems
• Create and Manage application and log monitoring
• Communicate effectively with global teams and stakeholders
• 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:

• B.E. (Computer Engineering) or equivalent from reputed engineering colleges
• 8+ years of proven software development experience
• Solid individual contributor with hands-on experience on below:
• Cloud & Infrastructure Management
  • AWS - Hands-on experience with cloud providers
  • Terraform - Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
  • Kubernetes (EKS) - Container orchestration
  • Docker - Containerization
  • Helm - Kubernetes package Management
• CI/CD & Automation
  • GitHub Actions / Jenkins
  • Python / Bash / Shell scripting - Automation scripting
• Monitoring & Logging
  • AWS CloudWatch - Cloud monitoring
  • Prometheus & Grafana - Open-source monitoring & visualization
• Security & Compliance
  • AWS IAM - Identity & Access Management
  • Source Code Management (SCM) & Version Control
  • GitHub - Git repositories
• Incident Management & Collaboration
  • ServiceNow / PagerDuty / Interlink - Incident response
• Kubernetes & Container Orchestration
  • Amazon EKS - Kubernetes in the Cloud
  • Non-Cloud
  • Kubernetes (Self Managed K8's cluster) - open-source Kubernetes setup
• Kafka and Event/Data Streaming - I.e. Setting up Kafka Topics and Mirrormakers
  • Apache Kafka - Event Streaming Platform
  • Kafka Topics - Message handling
  • Kafka Mirrormakers - Cross cluster topic replication and Data streaming
  • Certificate Management for Kafka MirrorMakers - Manage and updated expiring certificates for Kafka MirrorMakers
• AI Tools: GitHub Copilot - For Accelerating development tasks, scripting, and automation workflows

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.