Software Engineering Lead

Optum India; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Optum India is seeking an incident and monitoring engineer to keep critical applications healthy by triaging P1 incidents, debugging root causes, and coordinating with multiple teams during outages.

You will work with Dynatrace, Splunk and Zabbix to analyze logs, traces and metrics, update tickets, and contribute to RCA documentation. This role requires strong ITIL familiarity and effective communication in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Experience monitoring and observability tools (Dynatrace, Splunk, Zabbix).
• Experience handling P1/P2 incidents with triage, escalation and resolution.
• Familiarity with ITIL fundamentals and ticketing systems (ServiceNow/Jira).
• Ability to debug, analyze logs, traces and metrics to identify root cause.
• Basic Linux CLI and scripting for automation and log parsing.

Responsibilities

• Incident management and debugging across applications and infrastructure.
• Communicate status updates and document incident actions and RCA.
• Triage, investigate and resolve issues in high‑severity incidents.
• Monitor real‑time dashboards and validate alert thresholds to minimize false positives.

Skills

Incident management

Root cause analysis

Debugging

Linux command line

Scripting

APM concepts

Log analysis

Tools

Dynatrace

Splunk

Zabbix

ServiceNow

Jira

SPL queries

Kubernetes

Azure

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.

Role Overview

Responsible for monitoring application and infrastructure health using Dynatrace, Splunk and Zabbix, responding to P1 (Priority 1) alerts, and performing initial-level debugging and escalation to ensure minimal downtime

Primary Responsibilities

• Incident Management and Debugging
  • Perform initial triage and root cause analysis (RCA) for P1 incidents
  • Follow defined runbooks and SOPs for common P1 scenarios
  • Coordinate with application, database, network and infrastructure teams during incidents
  • Escalate unresolved issues to L2/L3 teams with proper documentation
  • Update incident tickets in tools such as ServiceNow or Jira with findings and actions taken
  • Participate in post-incident reviews and contribute to RCA documentation
• Communication and Reporting
  • Send timely incident notifications and status updates to stakeholders
  • Maintain shift handover notes with open issues and pending actions
  • Document recurring issues and suggest improvements to monitoring setup
  • Attend daily/weekly operations review meetings
• Application Troubleshooting
  • Troubleshoot application startup failures and deployment issues
  • Investigate REST API failures, connection issues and timeout problems
  • Analyze slow transactions using Dynatrace PurePath tracing
• Monitoring and Alerting
  • Monitor real-time dashboards in Dynatrace, Splunk and Zabbix during assigned shifts
  • Acknowledge and triage incoming P1 alerts within defined SLA timeframes
  • Ensure all critical alerts are reviewed and no alert goes unattended
  • Validate alert thresholds and reduce false positives by working with senior 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

• Monitoring and Observability Tools
  • Hands-on experience with Dynatrace: dashboards, PurePath tracing, Smartscape and Davis AI
  • Working knowledge of Splunk: log analysis, SPL queries, saved searches and alerting
  • Familiarity with Zabbix: host monitoring, triggers, templates and alert management
• Incident Management
  • Experience handling P1/P2 incidents: triage, escalation and resolution
  • Familiarity with ServiceNow or Jira for ticket management and documentation
  • Knowledge of ITIL fundamentals: incident, problem and change management
  • Demonstrated ability to follow runbooks and SOPs independently
• Debugging and Root Cause Analysis
  • Experience correlating data across multiple tools to isolate failures
  • Basic understanding of application performance monitoring (APM) concepts
  • Proven comfortable working with Linux command line for basic server-level debugging
  • Demonstrated ability to analyze logs, traces and metrics to identify root cause
• Scripting and Automation
  • Exposure to API-based integrations between monitoring tools
  • Basic scripting in Shell, Java or PowerShell for alert automation and log parsing
  • Ability to write and optimize SPL queries in Splunk
• Application Troubleshooting
  • Experience troubleshooting Java applications built using Spring Boot and Microservices
  • Demonstrated ability to analyze Java exception logs and stack traces

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of Kubernetes / containerized environments / Azure for pod-level debugging
• Exposure to APM concepts and cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP basics)
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes

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.