Observability Engineer – Remote

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OptumServe Enterprise Monitoring team is looking for an Observability Engineer. The team is responsible for enterprise infrastructure, application, and network monitoring for on-prem, hybrid, and various Clouds. The selected candidate will be joining a team of skilled engineers with a broad background in enterprise monitoring and Observability.  As an Observability Engineer, this role is focused on maintaining the reliability, scalability and availability of our Log management solution as well as our Metrics and Observability platform which heavily uses automation (terraform, Ansible and scripts), this role requires maintaining performance KPI of our solutions and defining their SLOs.

You’ll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges. 

Primary Responsibilities: 

• Maintain and deploy monitoring and alerting
• Design, configuration and maintenance of log aggregation solution at a large scale
• Set up and manage ingestion pipelines and data transformations
• Have the mindset of “automate any task”
• Monitoring and Alerting: Build and maintain robust monitoring systems using tools like Elk, Dynatrace, Prometheus, OTEL and Grafana to detect potential issues early and trigger alerts for timely response
• Maintain associated documentation as it applies to our audit and certification requirements 
• Participate in troubleshooting, capacity planning, and performance analysis activities 
• Research new monitoring requirements and in many cases write code for that
• Medium to expert level in setting up AI rules for tools like DavisAI (Dynatrace) and/or Elastic GenAI
• Solid expertise in setting up monitoring policies/rules/templates; and writing scripts to accomplish monitoring requirements

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: 

• 2+ years of experience working directly with monitoring tools as either an Admin, SME or as an Architect, preferably with Dynatrace and/or ELK
• 2+ years of experience with Dynatrace (managed, cloud as well as offline, with full scope of best practices and setup as it relates to Active gate, cloud, on-prem and custom with workflows), or with Elastic on-prem and cloud with best practices around the platform
• 1+ years of experience with designing data pipelines using filebeat, Logstash and/or fluentbit/fluentd
• 1+ years of AI expertise as it relates to Observability to reduce the amount of work, and make our products more reliable and resilient
• 1+ years of experience writing scripts in languages like Python and (Bash or powershell) to automate tasks
• 1+ years of experience working with Linux OS
• United States Citizenship
• If you are offered this position, you will be required to provide extensive personal information to obtain and maintain a suitability or determination of eligibility for a Confidential/Secret or Top Secret security clearance as a condition of your employment

Preferred Qualifications: 

• BS/MS in CS/engineering or equivalent, OR 5+ years of experience
• 1+ years of experience in Terraform and Ansible. Syntax, best practices, and managing complex configurations in multi commercial and Gov clouds to build and manage infra and applications
• 1+ years of scripting experience (JavaScript, Java, PowerShell, or others)
• SNMP, TCP dump and tracing
• Knowledge of AIOPS platform

*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 $71,200 to $127,200 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.   

OptumCare  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. 

OptumCare is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment