IAM Cloud - Senior DevOps Engineer- Remote or Hybrid in MN or DC

UnitedHealth Group•Eden Prairie, MN

3h•Hybrid

About The Position

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. IAM Cloud - Identity Engineering team at UHG specializes in developing capabilities that enable our cloud enterprise applications, while also protecting our cloud assets, data and services. As a member of this innovative agile team, you will collaborate with others to maintain and optimize capabilities to secure our growing dynamic cloud computing environments. Engineers on this team will work with many popular vendor and open-source technologies, internally developed applications and cloud native services. You will be challenged to provide technical and thought leadership and to succeed in this role, you need to be eager to learn, able to work through ambiguity, problem solve and communicate effectively. If you are located in MN or DC, you will have the flexibility to work remotely as you take on some tough challenges. For all hires in the Minneapolis or Washington, D.C. area, you will be required to work in the office a minimum of four days per week. 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.

Requirements

2+ years of hands-on experience in/with: Entra ID and Entra Connect Sync
Azure Identity and Access Management concepts and security frameworks
Deploying and operating resources in Azure
Operating with cloud platforms, APIs and event-driven automation
Solid understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IAC) and experience working with CI/CD technologies such as git and Terraform
Developing and managing Organization policies
Federation technologies and protocols such as SAML, OAuth, OIDC, etc.
Proficient with popular scripting and programming language frameworks such as Python, Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK, Microsoft Graph API, Shell Scripting languages

Nice To Haves

Certifications: CompTIA Security+, Azure Administrator Associate, Azure Security Engineer Associate, Microsoft Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals, Azure Fundamentals, AWS Cloud Practitioner, AWS Security (Specialty), CCSP or similar
Working experience in/with: Deploying and operating resources in AWS and GCP
Multi-factor authentication, user provisioning, service principal governance/management, privileged Identity management (PIM), single sign-on (SSO), domain management
Cloud IAM functionality across multiple public cloud services (IAM Roles, Permissions and Policies)
Experience with Implementing and managing Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM) to meet organizational access and security objectives
Fundamental understanding of PHI/PII data and the restrictions around it using limited data sets/de-identified data for analysis/development and testing where applicable
Advocate CI/CD and DevOps best practices

Responsibilities

Define and develop solutions to enforce least privilege access policies
Optimize CIEM tooling capabilities and reporting workflows
Develop and maintain guardrails to enforce/measure IAM cloud compliance with regulatory requirements
Develop automation and other modernized capabilities to improve Entra ID services and performances
Develop and implement disaster recovery and data backup strategies and solutions to maintain business continuity
Monitoring, logging, and analyzing system performance using Azure operations suite to maintain system health and optimize costs
Lead cloud migration and modernization initiatives
Advise on best practices for cloud security, reliability, and scalability
Drive innovation and discovery efforts around new Azure features and services
Participates in the development of prototypes and large-scale proof of concepts
Maintain knowledgeable around current application security controls