Senior Azure Cloud Engineer — Hybrid/Remote Ready

UnitedHealth Group; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

UnitedHealth Group, Optum Ireland, seeks a Cloud Engineer to design, build, and operate secure Azure cloud platforms for data, ML, and generative AI workloads. You will work with infra, automation, CI/CD, observability, and production support in a hybrid Ireland-based setting.

You will collaborate across engineering, data science, security, and product teams to deliver scalable, compliant cloud solutions while optimizing cost and performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Hands-on experience designing, building, and supporting cloud infrastructure in enterprise environments, with Azure.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and automation tools such as Terraform or Pulumi.
• Solid understanding of CI/CD, source control, automated testing, and production release support.
• Experience administering Linux-based systems in enterprise or service provider environments.
• Knowledge of cloud networking concepts (VNets, DNS, load balancers, etc.).
• Understanding of cloud security, identity and access management, secrets management, and data protection.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate secure, scalable Azure cloud infrastructure for data, ML, and AI workloads.
• Create reusable IaC templates and automation for reliable platform delivery.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for cloud infra, apps, and AI workloads.
• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability for platform reliability.
• Collaborate with engineering, data science, security, and product teams to meet compliance and operational needs.
• Support production systems with incident response, RCA, and continuous improvement.
• Apply cloud security and data protection practices across platform services.
• Optimize cloud usage, cost, and performance across environments.
• Create technical runbooks and platform standards; maintain documentation.
• Contribute to disaster recovery and business continuity planning.

Skills

Azure cloud engineering

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD practices

Linux administration

Cloud networking

Security and data protection

Monitoring & incident response

Cost optimization

Runbooks & documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Terraform

Pulumi

Kubernetes

Job description

UnitedHealth Group, Optum Ireland, seeks a Cloud Engineer to design, build, and operate secure Azure cloud platforms for data, ML, and generative AI workloads. You will work with infra, automation, CI/CD, observability, and production support in a hybrid Ireland-based setting.

You will collaborate across engineering, data science, security, and product teams to deliver scalable, compliant cloud solutions while optimizing cost and performance.