Senior Site Reliability Engineer - 2291807

UnitedHealth Group; Eden Prairie (MN); Remote; USD 145,000 - 188,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to enhance application performance and infrastructure reliability. This role involves developing solutions, monitoring tools, and embracing continuous improvement practices. The ideal candidate will possess a Master's degree and significant experience in SRE and DevOps, focusing on cloud technologies and infrastructure automation.

Benefits

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage

401k matching

Employee stock purchase plan

Qualifications

• Master's in Computer Science or related field with 5 years of experience.
• Strong background in SRE/DevOps practices and cloud technologies.
• Experience with monitoring tools and infrastructure automation.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop solutions to complex applications and system issues.
• Implement processes and tools for troubleshooting and optimization.
• Conduct tech debt reduction and transformation, including cloud adoption.

Skills

SRE

DevOps

Monitoring and alerting integration

Configuration management

Infrastructure automation

Cloud technologies

Education

Master's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Nagios

Splunk

Prometheus

Grafana

Opsgenie

Datadog

ELK Stack

Job description

Senior Site Reliability Engineer - 2291807

Senior Site Reliability Engineer - 2291807

EMPLOYER: Optum Services, Inc.

JOB TITLE: Senior Site Reliability Engineer

LOCATION: 1 Optum Circle Eden Prairie, MN 55344

DUTIES: Design and develop solutions to complex applications and system administration issues. Duties include: Layer in instrumentation in the development process so that applications can be monitored. Establish measurements that are used to detect internal problems before they result in user visible outages. Build processes and diagnostics tools to troubleshoot, maintain and optimize solutions and respond to customer and production issues. Embrace continuous learning of engineering practices to ensure industry best practices and technology adoption. Conduct tech debt reduction/Tech transformation including Open source adoption, Cloud adoption, HCP assessment and adoption. Conduct tech debt reduction/Tech transformation including Open-source adoption, Cloud adoption, HCP assessment and adoption. Contribute to Optum Inner source and industry SRE community. Improve processes/runbooks and champion automation of any manual items around support. Perform root cause analysis and deliver resolution for tools and automation failures. Create runbooks, processes, and test plans around reliability and performance of infrastructure/applications. Implement dashboards to help teams visualize logs, instrumentation, and other data to ensure optimal performance of the applications and infrastructure. Telecommuting is available from anywhere in the U.S.

REQUIREMENTS: Employer will accept a Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field and 5 years of experience in the job offered or in a Engineer-related occupation. Position requires 5 years of experience in the following:

•SRE and DevOps (Azure, AWS, GCP)

•integrating monitoring and alerting into cloud software solutions (Unix/Linux, Redhat 7/8, and Windows server administration)

•SLOs, SLAs and SLIs Analytics & Monitoring Tools such as; Nagios, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, Opsgenie, Datadog, Cloud watch and using ELK Stack, Elastic Search C3M, Codability.

•Configuration management, Infrastructure automation, Continuous Integration, Delivery (CI/CD)

•Cloud technologies including Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Software as a Service provider (IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS) and Kubernetes

RATE OF PAY: $145,366.00- $187,790.00/year

Please apply via careers.uhg.com and search for job 2291807

Careers with Optum. Here's the idea. We built an entire organization around one giant objective; make health care work better for everyone. So when it comes to how we use the world's large accumulation of health-related information, or guide health and lifestyle choices or manage pharmacy benefits for millions, our first goal is to leap beyond the status quo and uncover new ways to serve. Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, brings together some of the greatest minds and most advanced ideas on where health care has to go in order to reach its fullest potential. For you, that means working on high performance teams against sophisticated challenges that matter. Optum, incredible ideas in one incredible company and a singular opportunity to do your life's best work.(sm)

UnitedHealth Group offers a full range of comprehensive benefits, including medical, dental and vision, as well as matching 401k and an employee stock purchase plan.

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.