Requisition Number: 2341762 Optum Tech is a global leader in health care innovation. Our teams develop 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 health care's most complex challenges. Your contributions here have the potential to change lives. Ready to build the next breakthrough? Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together. 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. Primary Responsibilities: - Design, Development and maintenance of application - Monitoring, logging, and analyzing application performance and suggesting the alerting mechanism to catch the production issues sooner - Conduct vulnerability assessments and fix the issues - Partner with Development team and suggest proactive enhancement to make the application better - Develop and implement disaster recovery and data backup strategies and solutions to maintain business continuity - Collaborate with development teams to enable CI/CD pipelines for efficient software deployment - Conduct periodic access reviews and monitor user activity in the production environment - Lead cloud migration and modernization initiatives for the application - Advice on best practices for cloud security, reliability, and scalability - Use AI tools to automate, optimize, and improve the software development lifecycle by analyzing data and providing intelligent recommendations - Implement the AIOps for analyzing logs and metrics to enhance observability and incident response - Participates in the development of prototypes and large-scale proof of concepts - Maintain documentation around current application functionalities and security controls - Identify opportunities to fine-tune and optimize applications of Java developed projects - Work on the PLM activities - Partner closely with the stakeholders, upstream and downstream applications and create alerts for dependent applications failures 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: - Bachelor's degree (or higher) in Computer Science Engineering - 8+ years of overall IT experience - Experience in security-focused DevOps - Hands-on experience deploying and monitoring of applications - Experience working with CI/CD technologies such as GHA - Proven experience operating with cloud platforms, APIs and event-driven automation - Experience developing / coding software components in Java - Experience with CI/CD, Maven, XML, Web services, RESTAPI's, Microservices - Experience in Databases, SQL programming, Streaming Solutions using Kafka - Knowledge of AI tools - Proficient with popular scripting and programming language frameworks such as Python, Power Automate, Microsoft Graph API, Shell Scripting languages - Proven communication skills, ability to articulate complex issues understandably and engagingly *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 $112,700 to $193,200 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. 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.