Senior Platform DevOps Engineer – Remote SRE

UnitedHealth Group; Eden Prairie (MN); Hybrid; USD 92,000 - 164,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits package

Equity stock purchase plan

401(k) contribution

Job summary

UnitedHealth Group seeks a Senior Platform DevOps Engineer with SRE experience to design, build, secure, and operate enterprise cloud platforms and services. The role focuses on IaC, CI/CD, monitoring, security, and platform standards to enable scalable, reliable applications.

The ideal candidate thrives in complex cloud environments, supports production platforms, and drives operational excellence with modern CI/CD,IaC, and automation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in DevOps/SRE/Platform/Cloud roles.
• 4+ years in production workloads on Microsoft Azure.
• 4+ years IaC using Terraform.
• 4+ years CI/CD with GitHub Actions.
• 1+ years containers (Docker/Kubernetes).
• 1+ years cloud networking, identity & security.
• 1+ years monitoring/observability.
• 1+ years incident response & RCA.
• 1+ years Git-based source control & release mgmt.
• 1+ years scripting/automation (PowerShell/Python/Bash).

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure using IaC (Terraform).
• Develop and support CI/CD pipelines across environments.
• Implement platform standards and automation frameworks.
• Support cloud-native deployments and container workloads.
• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability for reliability.
• Define SRE practices: health monitoring, incident response, runbooks.
• Troubleshoot complex issues across apps, infra, security, and networks.
• Improve platform security with controls, secret management, and scans.
• Collaborate with dev/security/architecture/ops to improve reliability.
• Support disaster recovery, resiliency, backups, and business continuity.

Skills

DevOps

Site Reliability Engineering

Cloud Engineering

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Docker

Kubernetes

Scripting (PowerShell/Python/Bash)

Security practices

Incident response

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering/IT

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

UnitedHealth Group seeks a Senior Platform DevOps Engineer with SRE experience to design, build, secure, and operate enterprise cloud platforms and services. The role focuses on IaC, CI/CD, monitoring, security, and platform standards to enable scalable, reliable applications.

The ideal candidate thrives in complex cloud environments, supports production platforms, and drives operational excellence with modern CI/CD,IaC, and automation.