Site Reliability Engineer

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 a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data and resources they need to feel their best. Here, you will find a culture guided by diversity and inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale. Join us to startCaring. Connecting. Growing together.

You will be part of a world class identity matching solution building a state of the art applications that is at the center of identity management for Optum Technology. You will have a true opportunity to change the healthcare landscape for the better. Role requires to provide 24×7 operational support to all production practices on holidays and weekends. Coordinate with various teams and raise support ticket for all issues, analyze root cause and assist in efficient resolution of all production processes. Maintain logs of all issues and ensure resolutions according to quality assurance tests for all production processes. Need to have good understanding of business processes within various systems used within the application. You will need to be ambitious and willing to work out of your comfort zone.

Software engineering is the application of engineering to the design, development, implementation, testing and maintenance of software in a systematic method. The roles in this function will cover all primary development activity across all technology functions that ensure we deliver code with high quality for our applications, products and services and to understand customer needs and to develop product roadmaps.

You’ll enjoy the flexibility to telecommute* from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.

Primary Responsibilites:

• These roles include, but are not limited to analysis, design, coding, engineering, testing, debugging, standards, methods, tools analysis, documentation, research and development, maintenance, new development, operations and delivery
• With every role in the company, each position has a requirement for building quality into every output
• This also includes evaluating new tools, new techniques, strategies; Automation of common tasks; build of common utilities to drive organizational efficiency with a passion around technology and solutions and influence of thought and leadership on future capabilities and opportunities to apply technology in new and innovative ways

You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear directions on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree
• 4+ years of experience Cloud SDK's with AWS using Java (spring boot microservices), Scala, and Python
• 3+ years of experience with Distributed Data services (DynamoDB/Athena/Mongo/Apollo GraphQL platform)
• 3+ years of experience AWS Cloud: S3, CloudWatch, ECS, Lambda, RDS, EMR
• 3+ years of experience with CI/CD using GitHub Actions & container orchestration using AWS ECS/Kubernetes clusters
• 3+ years of experience in Elastic APM
• 3+ years of experience in Unix, Hadoop ,Hbase and Hive

*All Telecommuters 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 $72,800 to $130,000 annually based on full-time employment. We comply with all minimum wage laws as applicable.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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.

UnitedHealth Group 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.

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