Remote SRE: Cloud Ops for AWS Java Microservices

UnitedHealth Group; Eden Prairie (MN); Remote; USD 73,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits package

401k contribution

Equity stock purchase

Job summary

Optum is hiring software engineers to join a world-class identity matching solution team within UnitedHealth Group. The role supports 24x7 production operations across holidays and weekends, coordinating with multiple teams and maintaining issue logs for QA-compliant resolutions.

The position emphasizes building high-quality code with Java/Spring Boot, Scala, and Python, leveraging AWS services and container orchestration. Telecommuting from anywhere in the U.S.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience with AWS and Java (Spring Boot) and Scala/Python.
• 3+ years with distributed data services (DynamoDB, Athena, Mongo, Apollo GraphQL).
• 3+ years AWS Cloud services: S3, CloudWatch, ECS, Lambda, RDS, EMR.
• 3+ years CI/CD with GitHub Actions and container orchestration (ECS/Kubernetes).
• 3+ years with Elastic APM.
• 3+ years Unix, Hadoop, HBase and Hive.

Responsibilities

• Analyze, design, code, test, debugging, documentation, and delivery across platforms.
• Ensure quality by building quality into every output and best practices.
• Evaluate new tools and automate tasks to improve efficiency and drive technology initiatives.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Team collaboration

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

AWS Cloud services (S3, CloudWatch, ECS, Lambda, RDS, EMR)

Java (Spring Boot microservices)

Scala

Python

DynamoDB, Athena, MongoDB, Apollo GraphQL

GitHub Actions CI/CD

Kubernetes

Elastic APM

Unix, Hadoop, HBase, Hive

Job description

Optum is hiring software engineers to join a world-class identity matching solution team within UnitedHealth Group. The role supports 24x7 production operations across holidays and weekends, coordinating with multiple teams and maintaining issue logs for QA-compliant resolutions.

The position emphasizes building high-quality code with Java/Spring Boot, Scala, and Python, leveraging AWS services and container orchestration. Telecommuting from anywhere in the U.S.