Cloud Operations Tech Support Analyst - Remote

Optum; Eden Prairie (MN); Remote; USD 89,000 - 177,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a skilled IT professional to join their dynamic team. In this role, you will manage cloud infrastructure, ensuring systems are secure and operational. Your expertise in Linux, Azure, and automation will be crucial in streamlining processes and enhancing service delivery. This position offers the flexibility to work remotely while contributing to meaningful projects that impact healthcare outcomes. Join a mission-driven organization committed to improving lives and advancing health equity across the globe.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits package

Incentive and recognition programs

Equity stock purchase

401k contribution

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience required.
• 3+ years of experience with Linux and OS Patch Management.

Responsibilities

• Manage and monitor cloud infrastructure, including weekend deployments.
• Provide level 2 support and maintain highly available systems.

Skills

Linux Administration

OS Patch Management

Security Best Practices

Debugging and Problem Determination

Software Installation/Updates

Azure Services

Terraform

GIT

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

7+ years of equivalent experience

Tools

Terraform

GIT

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 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.

Information is the lifeblood of the healthcare industry - everything depends on it. At Optum Insight Technology, you'll help us work on streamlining the flow of information between payers, healthcare providers and various other stakeholders to deliver the right insights to the right places at the right times, driving better outcomes for patients, reducing friction in the health system and lowering costs. Every day our work directly impacts the world for the better, in meaningful and profound ways.

We live in a time of unprecedented technical capability and possibility. Health care is at a pivotal point in this journey where even small gains can lead to major transformation. You could be a part of that - you have tremendous skill and the potential to make a lasting impact. Optum Insight Technology is uniquely positioned to bring your skills to bear on these pressing and life-changing technical challenges. The health care industry has an immediate need for your drive, innovation, passion and technical insight. Help us help the millions of people we serve each day.

You'll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Participate in the management and monitoring of all cloud infrastructure, including weekend deployments of production and OS updates as needed


• Prioritize and work on tickets that are opened by automated alerting


• Prioritize and work on tickets that are opened by various groups that relate to server
  etwork\storage issues


• Provide level 2 support, including escalated support for problems and issues


• Maintain highly available systems in support of contractual SLA's


• Develop and maintain automation for server and application build, test and deploy


• Configure and deploy monitoring tools and scripts for systems and applications


• Remediation of all identified security risk within required compliance timeframes


• Administration of users - onboarding and terminating user access, managing user privileges and authentication


• Provide effective communication of projects and tasks to the Operations team and request stakeholders


• Monitor and Maintain Compute & Storage Systems


• Identify, categorize and respond to Network, Security & Compute system events


• Participate in Incident Management, Problem and Change Management

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:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or 7+ years of equivalent experience


• AZ-900 certification


• 3+ years of experience with Linux and OS Patch Management


• 3+ years of Linux and windows administration experience


• 2+ years of security best practice experience


• 2+ years of experience debugging and problem determination


• 2+ years of experience doing software installation/updates


• 1+ years of hands-on Azure experience, including services such as Entra, AKS, Frontdoor, WAF, VNET, Firewall, NSG, Container Registry, Load Balancer services


• Experience administering an identity solution such as open IAM


• Experience with Terraform and GIT or any CI/CD pipeline solution

Preferred Qualifications:

• AZ-104, AZ-500 Certification


• Open IAM Experience


• ITSM/SaaS Experience


• Healthcare and/or Financial PHI/PII Data Protection Experience


• Knowledge of the regulatory security and compliance requirements (e.g. MARS-E, NIST 800-53)

*All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy

The salary range for this role is $89,800 to $176,700 annually based on full-time employment. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. UnitedHealth Group complies with all minimum wage laws as applicable. In addition to your salary, UnitedHealth Group offers 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 UnitedHealth Group, you'll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives.

Application Deadline: This will be posted for a minimum of 2 business days or until a sufficient candidate pool has been collected. Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

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.