Senior SRE: Cloud-Native Reliability & Observability

UnitedHealth Group; Schaumburg (IL); Remote; USD 92,000 - 164,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Telecommute within US

Job summary

UnitedHealth Group is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to lead and evolve our SRE practices across cloud-native platforms. You will design and implement scalable, highly available infrastructure and monitoring solutions, while guiding incident response and reliability improvements.

Your role involves mentoring engineers, building IaC, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to advance platform resilience and automation across multi-cloud environments.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Platform or Software Engineering

Responsibilities

• Lead implementation and improvement of SRE practices including SLIs, SLOs and error budgets
• Design, deploy and support cloud-native platforms across AWS, Azure, and Kubernetes
• Build observability solutions with Datadog, Splunk, Grafana and OpenTelemetry
• Develop dashboards, alerting, health scorecards and reliability metrics
• Lead incident response, RCA and post-incident remediation
• Create IaC using Terraform and cloud automation
• Enable automation and self-healing to reduce toil
• Collaborate with software engineering, security and platform teams
• Support Kubernetes-based platforms and microservices
• Implement CI/CD and GitOps with GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Azure DevOps
• Drive AI-enabled operational capabilities and anomaly detection
• Mentor engineers on SRE and cloud-native best practices

Skills

SRE principles

Observability

Cloud engineering

CI/CD

Python scripting

Automation

On-call experience

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Eng/IT

Tools

Kubernetes

Datadog

Splunk

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Terraform

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD

Azure DevOps

Job description

UnitedHealth Group is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to lead and evolve our SRE practices across cloud-native platforms. You will design and implement scalable, highly available infrastructure and monitoring solutions, while guiding incident response and reliability improvements.

Your role involves mentoring engineers, building IaC, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to advance platform resilience and automation across multi-cloud environments.