Sr. DevOps Engineer, Kubernetes Next Gen - Remote

UnitedHealth Group•La Crosse, WI

15h•Remote

About The Position

For those who want to invent the future of health care, here's your opportunity. We're going beyond basic care to health programs integrated across the entire continuum of care. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together. Optum Serve is dedicated to serving our nation's military and Veterans. We have the honor to support federal agencies in their efforts to advance the United States health care system and improve the overall health and well-being of all those who serve or have served our country. Our health services are designed to help everyone live healthier lives. To support this mission, OSIT has embarked on a multi-year modernization journey, within which the Sr. DevOps Engineer will play a key role: designing, developing, and maintaining Optum Serve’s automated build and release structure and deployment pipeline. This will span from code compilation and automated testing to deploying releases to multiple environments. The Sr. DevOps Engineer is responsible for maturing the DevOps mindset within agile teams using techniques such as Acceptance Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Delivery to provide quality products with seamless integration across Development, Quality Assurance, Infrastructure, Operations, and Release Management roles within LHI. You’ll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely from anywhere within the U.S. 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.

Requirements

6+ years of IT experience on web-based products
4+ years of experience with Kubernetes deployment tools like ArgoCD and Flux
4+ years of experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools like Terraform
4+ years of experience with Azure, GitHub, and Gitlab
4+ years of experience with DevOps teams, Agile methodologies and Test-Driven Development
Experience leveraging AI tools in the software development lifecycle to improve quality and efficiency
Advanced knowledge of container architectures (Docker, Kubernetes)
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
United States Citizenship

Nice To Haves

4+ years of experience with at least 1 scripting language such as Groovy, Perl, Python, or Powershell
4+ years of experience working on large scale, multiple team projects
4+ years of experience with programmatic interaction with a relational database, preferably a recent version of SQL Server
Experience working in a NIST or FedRamp compliant environment
Advanced experience in at least 1 high level programming language such as C, C#, C, or Java
Advanced experience with modern source control systems (ie. Git)
Solid understanding of database technologies Mysql, MSSQL, Oracle) with database change automation experience
Infrastructure as code experience with some programming background either as a release engineer or developer
Solid track record of learning new tools and technologies
Proven self-starter and willing to take on new responsibilities that have not been clearly defined

Responsibilities

Support a learning organization model through coaching, training, and mentorship
Adapt as necessary for unintended consequences of this change initiative and one that understands the value of commitments to delivery made by a development team
Work in a DevOps team environment on both tactical and strategic assignments
Handle manual work while figuring out how to automate it
Take a project from inception to production and lead a team of variant applications to successful automated deployments