Senior Principal IO Engineer - 2364444

Senior Principal IO Engineer - 2364444 EMPLOYER: Optum Services Inc. JOB TITLE: Senior Principal IO Engineer LOCATION: 1 Optum Circle, Eden Prairie, MN 55344 (Telecommuting available from anywhere in the U.S.) DUTIES: Research, design, and develop computer and network software or specialized utility programs. Duties to include: Help teams architect scalable, highly available application solutions that leverage our platform services; Architect and develop customer applications to be cloud optimized; Work as a technical leader alongside application, development, and infrastructure teams; Provide deep software development knowledge with respect cloud architecture, design patterns, and programming; Work as both an infrastructure and application development specialist; Implement DevOps practices such as infrastructure as code, continuous integration, and automated deployment; Work with other DevOps teams to provide features, training, support, and elicit feedback; Provide our platform with guidance on well-architected frameworks and best practices; Advise on current and future technologies to help improve our efficiency; Create RFCs and POCs; Build and maintain AWS resources using modern Infrastructure-as-Code tooling (Terraform, Ansible); Build and maintain pipelines and automation through GitOps (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or Atlantis); Create and own platform level services on top of Kubernetes (FluentD, Datadog, Go); Develop automation scripts by submitting PRs and participating in code reviews (Github); Build monitoring and alerting templates for various cloud metrics (Splunk, Datadog, Cloudwatch); and Participate in a shared on-call rotation. Telecommuting is available from anywhere in the U.S. REQUIREMENTS: Employer will accept a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or related field and five (5) years of progressive post baccalaureate experience in job offered or in an Engineering-related occupation. Position requires five (5) years of progressive post baccalaureate experience in the following:

• Cloud Architecture;
• Software Engineering;
• DevOps practices;
• Linux;
• Terraform;
• Kubernetes;
• CI/CD;
• Application Architecture;
• Scripting such as Python or Bash;
• Programming using Java or JavaScript; and
• AWS Infrastructure Services such as EC2, S3, Lambda, EKS, API Gateway, CloudFront, ECS, or DynamoDB.

RATE OF PAY: $ 145,545 - $229,799 / per year Please apply via careers.uhg.com and search for job #2364444 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. Apply To This Job