About the Role
Title: Lead Site Reliability Engineer – Remote
Location: Eden Prairie MN US
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 start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.
Enterprise Technology Infrastructure, Platforms & Services (ETIPS) delivers services and operational support to meet business integration objectives. Architecture leadership to provide scalable, secure, and highly available infrastructure solutions to meet care delivery business needs and enable future business growth.
As an enterprise enabling team, we will partner with CIOs and their Lines of Business to build faster, better and cost-effective solutions powered by elastic, resilient and secure infrastructure, services and platforms by:
- Running 75% of our business in the public cloud
- Transforming our customer and advocate experience with a modern Omni Platform
- Delivering Best-In-Class Digital Workplace Experience
- Accelerating NIEs Integration with Excellence
- Building high performing, engaged teams
Our culture of integrity, diversity and inclusion is the foundation of all we do. Our platforms and services empower speed to market to meet consumer needs while improving the overall health care experience. We strive to provide an exceptional experience to those with whom we work and serve.
SRE is fundamentally doing work that has historically been done by an operations team, but using engineers with software expertise and banking on the fact that these engineers are inherently both predisposed to, and have the ability to, substitute automation for human labor. In general, an SRE team is responsible for availability, latency, performance, efficiency, change management, monitoring, emergency response, and capacity planning.
Site reliability engineers create a bridge between development and operations by applying a software engineering mindset to system administration topics. They split their time between operations/on-call duties and developing systems and software that help increase site reliability and performance.
You’ll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Transition newly acquired entities existing cloud accounts to Optum’s enterprise cloud organization
- Modernize newly acquired entities from their data center to cloud native solutions
- Automate vulnerability and violation remediation
- Remediate identified security vulnerabilities and risks with new acquired entities
- Create infrastructure as code in support of newly acquired entities transition to cloud
- Identify and implement workload optimization in AWS, Azure and GCP
- Participate in incident response for supported acquired entities
- Train and educate newly acquired entities to become self-sufficient in public cloud
- Participate in workload placement strategy sessions with other Optum Teams
- Develop new capabilities in support of Cloud M&A activities
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:
- Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of large enterprise experience
- 3+ years of experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP
- 3+ years of experience with Terraform
- 2+ years of experience with DevOps
Preferred Qualifications:
- Solution Architect, DevOps, or System Engineer certification in one or more public cloud providers
- Terraform certifications