Senior Software Engineer

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 inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

 

We are seeking a software Engineer in Web Development to provide consulting and development support as the team transitions toward an AIOPS organization.

 

The software Engineer will work to integrate development practices within agile teams, employing methods such as developing the automation work on manual monitoring and better to have the basic knowledge on Continuous Integration, and Continuous Delivery. The role involves coordinating efforts across Development, Quality Assurance, Infrastructure, Operations, and Release Management to support product integration.

 

The ideal candidate will be a servant leader who supports a learning organization through coaching, training, and mentorship. They should adapt to change, value delivery commitments, and participate in blogging and community support.

 

Candidates will work in a Development and SRE team environment and are expected to work on both tactical and strategic assignments. Candidates are expected to handle the manual work while figuring out how to automate it.

 

Deployment tasks include lower Dev, Test and Stage environments, Offline and Production.

 

This position requires the candidate to work in shifts (IST morning / IST afternoon) in rotation to cater the needs.

 

Primary Responsibilities:

• Monitoring and troubleshooting system performance
• Automating deployments and testing
• Improving reliability through load balancing, redundancy, and backups
• Collaborating across teams to ensure quality and security standards
• Communicating effectively with Business and technology teams
• Comply with the terms and conditions of the employment contract, company policies and procedures, and any and all directives (such as, but not limited to, transfer and/or re-assignment to different work locations, change in teams and/or work shifts, policies in regards to flexibility of work benefits and/or work environment, alternative work arrangements, and other decisions that may arise due to the changing business environment). The Company may adopt, vary or rescind these policies and directives in its absolute discretion and without any limitation (implied or otherwise) on its ability to do so

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of IT experience on web-based products
• 3+ years of experience in at least 1 high level programming language such as Java
• 2+ years of experience working on large scale, multiple team projects
• 2+ years of experience with Agile methodologies and Test-Driven Development
• 2+ years of continuous integration experience (for example tools like Jenkins)
• 2+ years of experience with at least 1 scripting language such as Perl, Python or PowerShell
• 1+ years of experience with programmatic interaction with a relational database, preferably a recent version of MySQL/any NoSQL DB
• Experience in Languages (Java, UI and Python scripting) Openness to learning new technologies like AIOps, Splunk, and Dynatrace
• Familiarity with GitHub Actions, Kubernetes, and Terraform
• Proven ability to handle production support, including weekend rotations
• Proven solid grasp of microservices architecture, including API gateways and SQL/NoSQL databases

 

Preferred Qualification:

• 2+ years of experience with cloud platform. MS Azure cloud platform

 

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.

 

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