Senior Software Engineer Lead

UnitedHealth Group; Hyderabad; On-site; Confidential; Full time

Job summary

UnitedHealth Group, via Optum, seeks a senior Platform/SRE engineer in Hyderabad to design and operate cloud-native platform services. You will implement Infrastructure as Code, manage Kubernetes/OpenShift clusters, and build CI/CD and GitOps pipelines while improving observability, reliability, and security across the platform.

You will mentor engineers, review code, and help set engineering standards, contributing to scalable, compliant, and cost-efficient platform operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field.
• 6+ years in Site Reliability/Platform/DevOps or related engineering.
• Hands-on Kubernetes/OpenShift experience and container ecosystem.
• Experience with AWS, Azure and/or GCP.
• Experience with Terraform, Ansible or IaC.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, ELK, Datadog, Dynatrace).
• Experience with incident management and production support.
• Strong Linux, networking and distributed systems fundamentals.
• Programming proficiency in Python, Go, Java or similar.

Responsibilities

• Partner with engineering teams to design, build and operate resilient cloud-native platform services.
• Design, implement, test, deploy and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and cloud-native services.
• Engineer and operate Kubernetes/OpenShift platforms, service mesh, ingress, secrets and platform networking.
• Build and enhance CI/CD and GitOps workflows using GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins or ArgoCD.
• Implement observability using metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, SLOs, SLIs and error budgets.
• Drive platform reliability, scalability, security, compliance and cost optimization.
• Automate operational workflows using Python, Go or Bash.
• Lead production incident response, root cause analysis and preventive engineering improvements.
• Review code, mentor engineers and contribute to platform engineering standards.
• Influence technical direction for platform reliability and developer experience.

Tools

Kubernetes/OpenShift

Terraform

Ansible

AWS

Azure

GCP

CI/CD pipelines

GitOps (ArgoCD/Jenkins/GitHub Actions)

Observability (Prometheus Grafana Splunk ELK Datadog Dynatrace)

Linux

Networking

Go/Python/Java

Incident management

Distributed systems

Job description

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:

• Partner with engineering teams to design, build and operate resilient cloud-native platform services
• Design, implement, test, deploy and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and cloud-native services
• Engineer and operate Kubernetes/OpenShift platforms, service mesh, ingress, secrets and platform networking
• Build and enhance CI/CD and GitOps workflows using GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins or ArgoCD
• Implement observability using metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, SLOs, SLIs and error budgets
• Drive platform reliability, scalability, security, compliance and cost optimization
• Automate operational workflows and eliminate manual toil using Python, Go or Bash
• Lead production incident response, root cause analysis and preventive engineering improvements
• Review code, mentor engineers and contribute to platform engineering standards
• Influence technical direction for platform reliability, operational excellence and developer experience
• Mentor junior engineers
• 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, machine Learning, or related field or equivalent certification
• 6+ years in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps, Infrastructure Engineering or Software Engineering
• Hands‑on Kubernetes/OpenShift and container ecosystem experience
• Experience with AWS, Azure and/or GCP
• Experience with Terraform, Ansible or Infrastructure as Code
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, ELK, Datadog, Dynatrace)
• Experience with incident management, production support and operational excellence
• Solid Linux, networking and distributed systems fundamentals
• Programming proficiency in Python, Go, Java or similar

Preferred Qualifications:

• 8+ years of relevant engineering experience
• Experience building Internal Developer Platforms (IDP)
• Experience implementing GitOps with ArgoCD or Flux
• Experience with platform security, policy‑as‑code and FinOps
• Healthcare or regulated industry experience

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.