Senior Software Engineer I - AWS

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.

The Optum Technology Digital team is on a mission to disrupt the healthcare industry, transforming UHG into an industry-leading Consumer brand. We deliver hyper-personalized digital solutions that empower direct-to-consumer, digital-first experiences, educating, guiding, and empowering consumers to access the right care at the right time. Our mission is to revolutionize healthcare for patients and providers by delivering cutting-edge, personalized and conversational digital solutions. We’re Consumer Obsessed, ensuring they receive exceptional support throughout their healthcare journeys. As we drive this transformation, we're revolutionizing customer interactions with the healthcare system, leveraging AI, cloud computing, and other disruptive technologies to tackle complex challenges. Serving UnitedHealth Group's digital technology needs, the Consumer Engineering team impacts millions of lives through UnitedHealthcare & Optum.

We are seeking a dynamic individual who embodies modern engineering culture - someone with deep engineering expertise within a digital product model, a passion for innovation, and a relentless drive to enhance the consumer experience. Our ideal candidate thrives in an agile, fast-paced rapid-prototyping environment, embraces DevOps and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) practices, and champions the Voice of the Customer. If you are driven by the pursuit of excellence, eager to innovate, and excited to make a tangible impact within a team that embraces modern technologies and consumer-centric strategies, while prioritizing robust cyber-security protocols, we invite you to explore this exciting opportunity with us. Join our team and be at the forefront of shaping the future of healthcare, where your unique skills will not only be recognized but celebrated.

Primary Responsibilities

• Plan, define, design, implement and maintain the solution architecture in the area of internal and external identity & access management solution in public and private cloud environments
• Design - Architect - Automate - Enhance -> AWS Infrastructure using Terraform and other provisioning tools
• Lead -> AWS Infrastructure Architecture function
• Create complex architecture design models that describe platform solutions that both conform to platform standards and advocates for modern technology and best practices
• Provide end-to-end support and leadership of multiple platforms
• Continuous application monitoring & Alerting using modern advanced monitoring & log forwarding tools such as Elastic Search, Splunk, New Relic, Elastic APM, Prometheus, Grafana etc.
• Frequent/continuous zero downtime deployment planning and executions
• Adopt, implement and define guidelines using open standard identity protocols and mechanisms such as OAuth 2.0/ OpenID Connect, SAML 2.0, Federated Identity Management and SSO
• Evaluates and recommends new and emerging security methods, best practices, tools, technologies and staying abreast of new threats and vulnerabilities
• Passion for building scalable, global, complex systems to solve problems with proven ability to deliver high quality software
• Develop and integrate analytics algorithms using AI and machine learning in largescale environments
• Keep yourself up to date on the security aspects of the products, including infrastructure security, application security and cloud security
• Work with the product management and Designers and convert their vision into a technical solution
• 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

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent
• 9+ years of experience in Software Engineering
• Experience on AWS and Terraform for designing and building distributed and reliable systems
• Experience planning and supporting +99.99% availability against critical applications in production
• Proven flexible to work with global teams and working on different time zones
• Proven skilled in: AWS, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, ISTIO, Helm
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience on Java, Springbot, REST API, Jenkins, Groovy, Harness, Github Actions, Git, Shell, Python, Go, SQL, SANS Top 20 Critical Security Controls, OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities, DevSecOps, DAST/SAST, Twistlock, AWS Inspector, New Relic/Datadog/Dynatrace, Kibana or Splunk, Web Application Firewalls, Edge security, DDos protection, Secure protocols( HTTPS , SSL/TLS , TCP etc..), Encryption, Load balancers, Forward and Reverse proxies, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML 2.0,Identity federation, SSO, RBAC, MFA
• Proven ability to work in a fast-paced environment where continuous innovation
  
  

#LETSGROW 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.