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 diversity and inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits, and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

We are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer with extensive experience in Azure, Kubernetes and CICD. Candidate should be able to work independently, handle complex requirements, and also adapt to changing requirements .

The engineering work is primarily done using cloud-based services like Azure, AWS, and GCP, and it is therefore essential that for our engineers to be successful, they should have had experience working on cloud-based services.

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and manage highly scalable & secure network, storage, database k8s/containers compute architectures on Azure and on-premise infra.

• Select the appropriate Azure service based on advanced compute, data, or security requirements.

• Design, implement, and manage GitHub/GHEC CI/CD and accelerate software development and deployment

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define infrastructure requirements and develop effective solutions.

• Develop and maintain documentation for development, configurations, processes, and procedures.

• Stay updated with the latest technologies and industry trends to continually enhance our infrastructure.

• Analyse and Monitor system performance and troubleshoot issues to ensure uninterrupted operation.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science Engineering or equivalent

• At least10 years of experience in the software engineering space

• At least 5 years of experience in platform engineering supporting cloud applications.

• Extensive experience in the following Azure technologies: AKS Key Vault ,Load Balancer, Function App, Firewall, Storage Account, IAM Roles, Azure Monitors, ACR, APIM, Azure AD , Log Analytics , workspace, System/Managed identity, App Registration, NSG, Vnet /Subnet

• Extensive experience in managing and maintaining Kubernetes infrastructure in production environments

• Proficiency in deploying, scaling, and managing containerized applications using Kubernetes

• Proficiency in troubleshooting Kubernetes and application-level issues in a Kubernetes environment

• Experience with Terraform code building Azure components using IAC.

• Proficient with GIT to perform source code management and actions and workflows

• Experience working within an Agile framework

• Experience scripting with Bash or any Linux shell

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with a keen attention to detail

Preferred Qualifications:

• Understanding of microservices architecture and RESTful API design

• Experience with Kubernetes cluster monitoring and logging using tools like Fluentdand Prometheus

• Worked with any observability and monitoring tools like Datadog, Newrelic, Dynatrace or anything similar

• Experience in setting up automated alerting on Azure monitor or Prometheus or Grafana

• Proficiency in writing and managing Helm charts for application deployment on Kubernetes

• Familiarity with SRE principles

• Understanding of alerting best practices, such as alert thresholds, alert fatigue reduction etc

• Kubernetes certifications

• Azure certifications

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