Advisory Analyst – Azure DevOps, AKS+ Powershell

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.  

Optum Advisory Services operates on the intersection of strategy, business operations, data and technology to help our clients realize exceptional business value.  We harness data and technology and use them to reimagine business transformations to design and architect solutions that help realize exceptional value for our clients. We are uniquely positioned to accelerate the value proposition for our clients across the healthcare ecosystem with our unwavering focus on making health system work better for everyone. 

The Cloud Engineer will be a key technical resource to help design, evaluate, develop, and deliver cloud solutions to support a growing product. As part of this role, we are looking for someone who is passionate about DevOps, Security, monitoring system health, and deploying/supporting software and services. The technical domain of the cloud engineer includes understanding build automation, understanding of cloud infrastructure, and best practices for security, scalability, cost, and performance. We are looking for a passionate professional preferably with more than 3+ years of experience with Cloud implementations and migrations. This individual should be self-driven with an ownership mindset and self-motivated to continuously learn and invest in personal development as well as keep abreast of leading-edge data management technologies in the industry.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with onshore and offshore product development teams
• Over-time develop deep understanding of the core product and take on solution design responsibilities
• Ensure all aspects of product development follow compliance and security best practices and policies
• Remediate any security findings found in existing security tools
• Provide support for existing services in a DevOps environment
• Reviews tasks critically and ensures they are appropriately prioritized and sized for incremental delivery
• Anticipates and communicates blockers and delays before they require escalation
• 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:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent training, fellowship, or work experience
• 3+ years of experience designing, evaluating, and/or implementing cloud solutions using Azure.
• 2+ years of experience working as part of data engineering teams through a product life cycle – requirements, design, development, testing and deployment including CI/CD and DevOps with constituent applications such as Jenkins or Azure DevOps etc.
• Experience with Kubernetes and CNCF projects
• Application development and software engineering experience in one or more programming languages such as PowerShell/Java/C#
• Proven excellent oral and written communication skills
• Proven self-driven learner to keep pace with the emerging cloud technologies

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools and processes such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates
• Experience with databases and/or storage systems – especially in the public cloud
• Experience executing with agile software development best practices
• Experience with public cloud migrations/transformations

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.

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