Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Remote

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

Job summary

Optum seeks a Sr. Site Reliability Engineer to design, implement, and sustain a secure, high‑performing cloud infrastructure across commercial and government clouds. You will work with software engineers, architects, and DevOps teams to deliver reliable platforms and automate routine tasks.

Role requires 6+ years in SRE/DevOps, deep Kubernetes expertise, and strong IaC skills. Remote work is allowed nationwide with some office presence in Minneapolis, with a 24/7 on-call rotation as part of the

Qualifications

• 6+ years in SRE/DevOps or cloud engineering.
• IaC expertise: Terraform or Pulumi.
• Kubernetes with Helm/ArgoCD/Flux.
• Production cloud experience: Azure or AWS.
• RESTful services experience.
• Monitoring tools: Azure Monitor, Splunk, Dynatrace, Grafana, Prometheus.
• PKI, encryption, OWASP knowledge.
• Kubernetes production excellence.
• IAM concepts understood.
• VS Code, GitHub, GitLab familiarity.
• Networking fundamentals.
• Willingness for 24/7 on-call rotation.

Responsibilities

• Architect, develop, and maintain cloud infrastructure in Azure and AWS.
• Define and measure SLOs/SLAs/SLIs with dev teams.
• Contribute to platform services: automation, deployment, support.
• Integrate logging, metrics, and incident monitoring.
• Provide observability tooling for production systems.
• Support on-call rotation and incident remediation.
• Improve automation and self-healing across platforms.
• Advance tooling for performance and resiliency testing.
• Automate alerts for performance, cost, and security.

Skills

Site Reliability Engineering

DevOps practices

Cloud engineering

SRE tooling

Monitoring & observability

Networking basics

IAM understanding

On-call rotation

Tools

Terraform

Pulumi

Kubernetes

Helm

ArgoCD

Flux

Azure Monitor

Splunk

Dynatrace

Grafana

Prometheus

VS Code

GitHub

GitLab

Job description

For those who want to invent the future of health care, here's your opportunity. We're going beyond basic care to health programs integrated across the entire continuum of care. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together. Our Optum Serve IT team develops cutting-edge solutions that help people live healthier lives and help make the health system work better for everyone. From advanced data analytics and AI to cybersecurity, we use innovative approaches to solve some of healthcare's most complex challenges. To support this mission, OSIT has initiated a multi-year modernization program aimed at updating and enhancing enterprise technology systems in accordance with modern design standards.

You'll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges. For all hires in the Minneapolis or Washington, D.C. area, you will be required to work in the office a minimum of four days per week.

Job Summary

The Sr. Site Reliability Engineer will architect, develop, and maintain Optum Serve's cloud environment in both the commercial and government clouds. The role will work closely with software engineers, architects, and DevOps engineers to architect and maintain a secure, resilient and high performance cloud infrastructure.

Primary Responsibilities

• Build, operate and support IaaS and PaaS infrastructure in Azure and AWS commercial and government clouds
• Work closely with dev teams to identify and measure SLOs, SLAs and SLIs
• Act a solid contributor to development of platform services including architecture, provisioning, configuration, deployment, and support
• Perform integrations with central logging, metrics dashboards, instrumentation, incident monitoring and management
• Build/integrate/administer systems and tools that enable engineering teams to observe their applications in production with autonomy (Dashboards, APMs)
• Support software and/or cloud-infrastructure in an on-call rotation basis
• Assist with identification and remediation of technical problems at the root cause by continuously implementing automation, self-healing, and real-time monitoring to production systems
• Maintain and improve operational tooling, frameworks
• Build frameworks that test the performance and resiliency of our platform services/tools
• Automate alerts for metrics on performance, cost, vulnerabilities, risk, compliance violations
• Improve processes and champion automation of any manual items around support

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

• 6+ years of experience working in a Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud Engineering, or DevOps role
• Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools like Terraform, Pulumi
• Experience with Kubernetes deployment tools like Helm, ArgoCD, Flux
• Experience supporting infrastructure in production cloud environments
• Experience working with RESTful services
• Some experience with monitoring tools (Azure Monitor, Splunk, Dynatrace, Graphana, Prometheus)
• Knowledge of Encryption, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), understanding of OWASP
• Expert knowledge of at least one major cloud service provider (Azure preferred, AWS acceptable)
• Expert knowledge and hands on production experience in Kubernetes (bare metal or managed) cluster setup and management
• Understanding of identity and access management (IAM)
• Familiarity with IDEs and source control tools such as Visual Studio Code, GitHub, GitLab
• Solid awareness of networking and internet protocols
• Ability to participate in a 24/7 on‑call rotation following documented procedures and escalation paths
• United States Citizenship
• If you are offered this position, you will be required to provide extensive personal information to obtain and maintain a suitability or determination of eligibility for a Confidential/Secret or Top Secret security clearance as a condition of your employment
• All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy

Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, we offer 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 us, you'll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives. The salary for this role will range from $91,700 to $163,700 annually based on full-time employment. We comply with all minimum wage laws as applicable.

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.

OptumCare 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.

OptumCare is a drug‑free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.