Senior Principal IO Engineer - 2364444

UnitedHealth Group•Eden Prairie, MN

1d•Remote

About The Position

Optum Services Inc. is seeking a Senior Principal IO Engineer to research, design, and develop computer and network software or specialized utility programs. This role involves helping teams architect scalable, highly available application solutions, architecting and developing cloud-optimized customer applications, and acting as a technical leader across application, development, and infrastructure teams. The engineer will provide deep software development knowledge related to cloud architecture, design patterns, and programming, functioning as both an infrastructure and application development specialist. Key responsibilities include implementing DevOps practices like infrastructure as code, continuous integration, and automated deployment, working with other DevOps teams, providing guidance on well-architected frameworks and best practices, advising on current and future technologies, creating RFCs and POCs, building and maintaining AWS resources using Infrastructure-as-Code tools (Terraform, Ansible), building and maintaining pipelines and automation through GitOps (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or Atlantis), creating and owning platform-level services on Kubernetes (FluentD, Datadog, Go), developing automation scripts via PRs and code reviews on Github, building monitoring and alerting templates for cloud metrics (Splunk, Datadog, Cloudwatch), and participating in a shared on-call rotation. Telecommuting is available from anywhere in the U.S.

Requirements

Cloud Architecture
Software Engineering
DevOps practices
Linux
Terraform
Kubernetes
CI/CD
Application Architecture
Scripting such as Python or Bash
Programming using Java or JavaScript
AWS Infrastructure Services such as EC2, S3, Lambda, EKS, API Gateway, CloudFront, ECS, or DynamoDB

Responsibilities

Help teams architect scalable, highly available application solutions that leverage our platform services
Architect and develop customer applications to be cloud optimized
Work as a technical leader alongside application, development, and infrastructure teams
Provide deep software development knowledge with respect cloud architecture, design patterns, and programming
Work as both an infrastructure and application development specialist
Implement DevOps practices such as infrastructure as code, continuous integration, and automated deployment
Work with other DevOps teams to provide features, training, support, and elicit feedback
Provide our platform with guidance on well-architected frameworks and best practices
Advise on current and future technologies to help improve our efficiency
Create RFCs and POCs
Build and maintain AWS resources using modern Infrastructure-as-Code tooling (Terraform, Ansible)
Build and maintain pipelines and automation through GitOps (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or Atlantis)
Create and own platform level services on top of Kubernetes (FluentD, Datadog, Go)
Develop automation scripts by submitting PRs and participating in code reviews (Github)
Build monitoring and alerting templates for various cloud metrics (Splunk, Datadog, Cloudwatch)
Participate in a shared on-call rotation