UnitedHealth Group

UnitedHealth Group is a healthcare and well-being company that’s dedicated to improving the health outcomes of millions around the world. We are comprised of

Lead Software/ DevOps Engineer

Location

USA Timezones

Posted

10 hours ago

Salary

$112.7K - $193.2K / year

Seniority

Lead

No structured requirement data.

Job Description

Lead Software/ DevOps Engineer

UnitedHealth Group

Role Description These represent a significant portion of the day-to-day work and require candidates with strong production operations, incident management, release management, disaster recovery, and service reliability experience. - Lead production support activities for critical customer-facing applications and services. - Coordinate application release activities, deployment planning, implementation execution, and post-release validation. - Manage change requests throughout the approval and implementation lifecycle. - Lead or coordinate P1 and P2 incident response efforts, including war room facilitation and stakeholder communications. - Drive Root Cause Analysis (RCA) activities and ensure corrective actions are implemented. - Present incident reviews and service improvement recommendations to leadership teams. - Plan, coordinate, and execute Disaster Recovery (DR) exercises across Stage and Production environments. - Partner with Engineering and DevOps teams to identify and remediate security vulnerabilities and compliance findings. - Coordinate monthly security scanning and remediation activities with QA and partner teams. - Support operational governance activities, including service reviews, PLM reviews, and reliability initiatives. - Maintain CMDB and Configuration Item (CI) documentation and operational records. - Manage operational forecasts, capacity planning, and health service reporting. - Collaborate with third-party vendors and external partners to resolve service requests and production issues. - Review upcoming infrastructure and application changes to ensure operational readiness and risk mitigation. - Support cloud platform operations, including Kubernetes, Kafka, GCP, and HCP Console technologies. - Coordinate onboarding of Kafka topics, event streams, and related data integrations. - Drive continuous improvement initiatives focused on automation, reliability, performance, and operational efficiency. Qualifications - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Information Technology or 6+ years of software engineering experience. - 8+ years of experience in object-oriented programming language JAVA. - 5+ years’ experience as a lead production support for critical customer-facing applications and services. - 3+ years of leading or coordinating P1 and P2 incident response efforts, including war room facilitation and stakeholder communications. - 3+ years of experience with any one public cloud platform like AWS or Azure or GCP. - 2+ years of experience with container technologies like Docker and Kubernetes. - 1+ years of experience with automation and scripting tools such as Python and Bash. Requirements - Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work collaboratively with development teams, stakeholders, and management. - Experience in problem-solving skills on complex technical issues and a proactive attitude towards identifying and addressing potential issues. - Experience with public cloud platforms, hybrid cloud environments, and migration strategies. - Experience with REST API design, microservices, and event-driven architecture. - Experience with configuration and deployment management tools such as Ansible, Terraform. - Experience with configuration and maintenance of services such as load balancers, relational & NoSQL databases, and messaging systems. - Experience in monitoring and alerting tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, and Grafana. - Experience with incident response and post-mortem analysis. - Demonstrated excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work collaboratively with development teams, stakeholders, and management. Benefits - Comprehensive benefits package. - Incentive and recognition programs. - Equity stock purchase. - 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements).

Related Categories

Related Job Pages

More DevOps Engineer Jobs

Ensono logo

Site Reliability Engineer

Ensono

Ensono delivers complete Hybrid IT solutions, from mainframe to cloud, tailored to each client’s journey.

DevOps Engineer13 hours ago
Full TimeRemoteTeam 1,001-5,000H1B Sponsor

Role Description We are seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with expertise in: - Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform - Core CI/CD tools such as Azure DevOps - Monitoring tools including DataDog and AWS CloudWatch The ideal candidate will have: - Commercial experience in technologies like Dotnet or Java - Skills in troubleshooting, incident resolution, and improving service and change management processes - Strong leadership in client-facing discussions and engagement with third-party suppliers - An SRE Foundation certificate and a cloud provider associate-level certification are highly beneficial Commercial experience and proficiency with industry standard: - IAC tooling (Terraform preferably, or ARM/bicep and CloudFront) - Core CI/CD Tooling (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions or Gitlab) - Monitoring Tooling (DataDog, Splunk, NewRelic, Azure Monitor, AWS CloudWatch) - Commercial experience in at least one core technology (Dotnet, Java, AI/Data Engineering, Golang) - Troubleshooting issues and identifying systemic failings indicated by incidents/failures - Implementing fixes - Proposing solutions for reducing toil - Providing leadership in the Incident resolution process, including creating and maintaining documentation, and providing key input to Post-mortem analysis - Improving Service Requests and Change Management processes, both technically and through stakeholder management - Participate in the process for, and proactively mitigate risks in a Security management process (Vulnerabilities in Code, Infrastructure, Dependencies) - Lead discussion in client-facing meetings and discussions around the SRE process, and identifying areas for increasing SRE footprint - Engaging with suppliers and 3rd parties for support, requests and opportunities Qualifications - 3-9 Years experience - Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in computer science or related discipline - SRE Foundation certificate (DevOps Institute) and a Cloud provider (AWS, Azure, GCP) 'associate'-level certification, or completed during the probationary period - Proficiency in Azure and Kubernetes, with hands-on experience in managing and deploying applications - Expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform for efficient and scalable infrastructure management Preferred Qualifications - Certified Kubernetes Administrator / Application Developer - Certified Azure DevOps Engineer - Experience with monitoring tools such as NewRelic or Splunk for effective system monitoring and alerting - Familiarity with Harness for continuous delivery and deployment processes - Strong programming skills in .Net, Java, or JavaScript for developing robust and scalable applications

United Kingdom
XTEL logo

Senior DevOps Engineer

XTEL

A leading global technology solutions provider for FMCGs

DevOps Engineer14 hours ago
Full TimeRemoteTeam 201-500Since 2015H1B No Sponsor

• Ensure highly available, resilient, and maintainable systems to support our business growth model, with a focus on Automation, Monitoring, Continuous Integration, and Delivery. • Develop and implement automated provisioning solutions for applications and infrastructure. • Provision and maintain cloud infrastructures in Azure. • Provide operational and system expertise to software delivery teams. • Resolve issues reported via Service Desk systems. • Optimize information access, server infrastructure performance, and integrity. • Maintain documentation including server build docs, configuration standards, and infrastructure architecture. • Develop corrective action plans and Root Cause Analysis documents for internal and client distribution. • Execute activities for automating and streamlining infrastructure operations and DevOps processes. • Build and maintain tools for deployment, monitoring, and operations — leveraging the latest technologies including Agentic AI. • Ensure that the technical environment is properly monitored and correctly used, with timely resolution of technical issues. • Identify system performance issues and oversee the development and use of tools to resolve them. • Support and maintain both customer-facing production environments as well as QA and Development environments. • Report and manage risk in line with ISO 27001 controls. • Preserve assets, information security, and control structures.

Germany
ERNI logo

Senior Full-Stack Developer, DevOps

ERNI

Swiss Software Engineering. We boost people and businesses in the innovation of software-based products and services.

DevOps Engineer14 hours ago
ContractRemoteTeam 501-1,000H1B No Sponsor

• Design, develop, and maintain modern full-stack applications. • Build scalable APIs, microservices, and cloud-native solutions. • Automate infrastructure and deployment pipelines using DevOps best practices. • Develop secure, reliable, and high-performing applications on Microsoft Azure. • Monitor, troubleshoot, and continuously improve application performance and reliability. • Collaborate with architects, developers, QA engineers, and stakeholders to deliver high-quality solutions.

Philippines
SOFTSWISS logo

Site Reliability Engineer – Middle

SOFTSWISS

Winning combination of software products for iGaming

DevOps Engineer14 hours ago
Full TimeRemoteTeam 1,001-5,000H1B No Sponsor

• Develop comprehensive monitoring solutions to provide full visibility to the different platform components • Build and enhance dashboards and alerting to monitor our apps and platform components • Troubleshoot priority incidents, facilitate blameless post-mortems and ensure permanent closure of incidents • Evaluate our apps and platform components performance, provide improvements to meet our response goals • Engage with the development team throughout the life cycle to help develop software for reliability and scale • Improve our CI/CD processes to make them as boring as possible (automatization, bots implementation and etc.)

Poland