Azure Cloud Engineer - Remote

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.

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

Primary Responsibilities:

• Design and build a greenfield commercial analytics platform on Microsoft Azure
• Design cloud architecture and patterns
• Serve as the subject matter expert (SME) for Cloud (Azure) and Terraform
• Must possess great understanding of Azure Services, Network, and Security with experience working closely with application teams
• Maintain ongoing improvement of processes, and best practices to meet security, cost, and agility requirements
• Contribute to and maintain design and process documentation
• Build an extensible analytics compute environment with Azure Databricks/Synapse that can used directly by the end user as well as integrated with additional components like Power BI
• Prioritize modularity, reusability, and componentization of solutions
• Enable ease of use with documentation, templates, scripts, and wrapper APIs that allow a data analyst to get up and running with their preferred data sources and compute as quickly as possible
• Work collaboratively with a distributed cross org team of engineers, architects, and data scientists/analysts.
• Manage pipelines for CI/CD and Release Management workflows like Github Actions.
• Must have experience and understanding of modern Identity & Access Management concepts and best practices

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:

• 3+ years of experience with Microsoft Azure specifically in services like Databricks, Synapse, Kubernetes Service, Webapp, Azure Keyvault
• 3+ years of experience with Terraform IaC and CI/CD using Github
• 3+ years of experience with APIs, and cloud architecture design
• 3+ years of experience doing analytics platform/infrastructure work
• 3+ years of experience with a relevant language (SQL, Python or Go)
• 3+ years of experience diagnosing and resolving network connectivity problems, API integration issues, and cloud resource configuration errors.
• 3+ years of Cloud monitoring experience with Azure Monitor, Azure Application Insights, and Log Analytics Workspace or other open-source tools

Preferred Qualifications:

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience
• Azure Certification (AZ-104) and HashiCorp Terraform certification
• Experience doing analytics platform/infrastructure work in the healthcare space
• Experience integrating with disparate data sources (EPIC, Hadoop, Oracle, etc.)
• Experience working in the healthcare industry with PHI/PII
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and ability to work independently as well as with a team

*All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy

The salary range for this role is $71,600 to $140,600 annually based on full-time employment. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. UnitedHealth Group complies with all minimum wage laws as applicable. In addition to your salary, UnitedHealth Group offers 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 UnitedHealth Group, you'll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives.

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.

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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