Sr Site Reliability Engr

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. The Site Reliability Engineer will architect, develop, and maintain Optum Serve's cloud environment in both the commercial and government AWS cloud. The role will work closely with software engineers, architects, and DevOps engineers to architect and maintain a secure, resilient and high performance cloud infrastructure. To support this mission, OSIT has initiated a multi year modernization program aimed at updating and enhancing enterprise technology systems in accordance with modern design standards. You’ll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges. For all hires in the Minneapolis or Washington, D.C. area, you will be required to work in the office a minimum of four days per week. Primary Responsibilities: Build, maintain, and operate IaaS and PaaS infrastructure in 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 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: 6+ years of experience working within a cloud engineer/SRE role Solid knowledge of AWS services (ex. VPC, EC2, S3, ECS, Cloudformation, Lambda, EKS, RDS, ELB, Route53, RedShift) Expert knowledge and hands on production experience in Kubernetes (EKS or AKS) cluster setup and management required. Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools like Terraform. Experience with Kubernetes deployment tools like Helm, ArgoCD, Flux Solid awareness of networking and internet protocols. Understanding of identity and access management (IAM) Experience supporting infrastructure in production cloud environments. Knowledge of Encryption (KMS), Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), understanding of OWASP Experience working with RESTful services Experience supporting environments adhering compliance standards like FedRAMP and NIST (800‑171|53) Some experience with monitoring tools (CloudWatch, VPC Flow Logs, Splunk, Dynatrace, Graphana, Prometheus). Familiarity with IDEs and Source Control tools like Azure DevOps, Github or Gitlab. Be part of 24/7 on‑call rotation 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 Preferred Qualifications: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Math, Physics Master's Degree with coursework focused on advanced algorithms, mathematics in computing, data structures or related field Expert knowledge of deploying Production grade applications in AWS Demonstrate passion about infrastructure automation All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy. 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 hourly pay for this role will range from $xx.xx to $xx.xx per hour based on full‑time employment. We comply with all minimum wage laws as applicable. 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. UnitedHealth Group 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. UnitedHealth Group is a drug‑free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment. #J-18808-Ljbffr UnitedHealth Group